Across cultures: the gap year in Britain

Lekcja dotyczy tematu rocznej przerwy po szkole średniej zanim uczniowie zdecydują się pójść na studia. Powtórka słownictwa związanego z krajami i kontynentami. Różne sposoby na wyrażanie przyszłości: going to/might/Future Simple/ Present Continuous.

TOPIC: Across cultures: the gap year in Britain.

Language focus: Ways of expressing the future

Vocabulary: Continents and countries

Optional materials:
• Polish-English dictionaries
• A map of the world

Warm-up

• Tell students about your experience of traveling to other countries. Ask them where they would like to go if they had enough money and a year off school. You can make a list of countries on the board.
• Play a guessing game with students. Describe the location of some countries in a simple way and let your students guess what country you are talking about. Let students take over if they want to.

Continents and countries

Pronunciation and vocabulary

1
• Play the cassette
• Tell students to listen and repeat the names of countries and continents

2 & 3

• Students work in pairs and try to match countries and continents. Walk around the class, helping with pronunciation.
• Ask some pairs for their suggestions. If you have a map of the world, students can come to the map and show the location of the countries
• Play the cassette twice for the students to listen and check the answers

Key:
North America – Canada
South America – Argentina, Peru
Asia – Thailand, Malaysia
Europe – France, Germany
Africa – Kenya, Tanzania

4
• Revise the point of the compass
• Draw students’ attention to how the adjectives are formed. Describe the location of one of the countries, possibly pointing to the map.
• Students work in pairs and try to describe the location of the rest of the countries. Walk around, help when necessary.
• Ask several pairs for their suggestions.

Speaking

5
• If you made a list of countries on the board during the warm-up, use the list to help students with pronunciation of the names. If you do not have such a list, ask students which countries they would like to visit. Drill the pronunciation.
• Tell students to play in pairs and play Compass Points using the list of the countries in the book and on the board. Student A thinks of a country, says what continent it is in and describes its location. Student B takes one guess, he/she gets five points, if two guesses – four points, etc. Students change round when ready.

Across cultures: The gap year in Britain.

Reading

6
• Tell students they are going to read about the so-called gap year. Elicit what they think the gap year may be.
• Students read the passage and answer ...