Module 12 (1).docx

ENGLISH LANGUAGE II 2nd April 2012. Module 12: Mountains (pages 97-105)

Warm-up activities  speaking about mountains in our country (the highest, the most attractive for a holiday, leisure activities that can be done in mountain area etc.)  describing the mountains in the photos using key words: to be boiling/ hot/ warm/ mild/ cool/ cold/ freezing, to rain heavily, to drizzle, to snow, a breeze, frost, lightning, a shower, a storm, thunder, to be changeable/ cloudy/ dry/ foggy/ overcast/ snowy/ sunny/ wet/ windy Grammar Focus: The Passive  speaking about photos, about winter sports and students' experience, especially using: alpine skiing (downhill/ slalom), cross-country skiing, extreme skiing, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, ice skating, ski jumping, snowboarding  reading the encyclopedia extracts, matching them with the headings given and paying special attention to the passive forms  completing the rules for the Present Simple, Present Perfect and Past Simple Tense passive voice, especially referring to Grammar Summary 12, page 144  making the active sentences passive and emphasizing the importance of omitting/ expressing the “doer“ of the action  providing more examples from everyday speech and completing the exercises given in the book (a short biography of Janica Kostelic, a Croatian skier; answering the questions to the Winter Olympics Quiz etc.) Skill Focus: Everest  students say which key words (avalanche, continental plate, glacier, monsoon, natural environment, peak, sea level, slope, summit) they can see in the photo

 reading the text, answering the questions, deciding whether the statements given are true or false, discussing different questions  expressions with prepositions/adverbs: matching the definitions with the expressions from the article

Communication Workshop  writing formal letters  a role-play