Date: 8.02.

2017
Grade: 8
Subject: English
The theme: A very long bike ride
The aims of the lesson:
Educational: To introduce students with new theme, to organize works on students oral and
written speech.
Developing: To develop logical thinking, speaking and grammatical skills, motivation of
studying of English language, interest of students to studied language.
Upbringing: To bring up students to be cultural, educational and clever person. Stimulate to
independent work, ability to work in collective.
Practical: To practice their speaking and reading, to check their pronunciation by using texts
and dialogues. Doing lexical tasks.
The form of the lesson: Traditional lesson
The type of the lesson: Combined lesson
Methods of teaching: Explanation, demonstration, question - answer.
Visual aids: An interactive board, cards with tasks.
Inter subject connection: Kazakh, Russian.

The plan of the lesson

I. Organization moment
a) Greeting
b) Classroom expressions
c) Checking-up the home task
II. The basic part of the lesson
a) Presentation
b) Work with vocabulary
c) Practice
III. Conclusion
a) Reflection
c) Giving the home task
d) Evaluation

The Procedure of the Lesson

I. Organization moment (5 min)

a) Greeting
-Good morning students!
-Sit down, please.
b) Classroom expressions
-Who is on duty today?
-What day is it today?
-What date is it today?
-Who is absent today?
c) Checking-up of the home task
-OK. Very nice! What was your home task?
-Are you ready?
-Who wants to answer?
-OK. Let me have a look at your copybooks.

II. The basic part of the lesson

a) Presentation (5 min)
T: The theme of our lesson is A very long bike ride.
How many different ways of travelling can you think of?
Imagine youre going on a long journey. In your opinion, whats the best way of travelling,
and why?
b) Work with vocabulary. (3 min)
T: Before we start our lesson lets read the new words according to the theme. Look at the
pictures in the whiteboard and repeat after me.
Vocabulary:
1. Cycling trip-
2. Ferry-
3. Desert-
4. To chase-
5. Rhino-
6. Knee-
7. Backpackers-
8. Boat-

c) Practice (10 min)

Ex: 2a. Read the text quickly and find answers to these questions. Dont read every word.
Youve got three minutes.
1. How long did Richards journey last?
2. How did he travel?
3. Where did he meet his wife?
4. Where did he get married?
5. Where did his journey finish?

A very long bike ride

1. When Richard Gregg left the UK on a cycling trip, he planned to spend two or three
years abroad. But, in the end, his trip lasted 14 years. There was so much to see.
He said. I decided to take my time.
2. First he cycled to the south coast and took the ferry to France. He rode across
Europe to Italy and he sailed from Venice to Alexandria in Egypt.
3. He cycled along the banks of the River Nile to Aswan, and then he caught a train
south across the desert, because there werent any roads. While he has travelling
 through East Africa, he was chased by rhino, but he arrived safely on the coast of
Kenya. From there he flew to Pakistan.
4. He rode through India, where he hurt his knee and had go to the hospital. When he
was better, he crossed the Himalayas, travelled through the Nepal and Tibet and
then into China. He saw the Great Wall of China on his way to Beijing.
5. Next, Richard took a boat to Japan. Then he ran out of money, so he had get a job.
For two and a half years, he worked as an English teacher.
6. He met his Japanese wife, Haruyo, in a backpackers hostel in Laos. She rode with
him for the next part of his trip through Southeast Asia and Australia. They got
married in New Zealand.
7. After that, Richard continued on his own. He went to the USA and Canada, where
he saw the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls, and then into South America. But,
suddenly, his journey came to an end. He fell off his bike and broke his leg. A few
days later, he and his bike were on a plane on their way to the UK.

Ex2b p400(5 min)

Match each photo with one of the paragraphs.
EX2c Listen, and read the text again. Then answer the questions.(5 min)
1. How did Richard get to France?
2. Why didnt he cycle through he desert?
3. What dangerous experience did he have in Africa?
4. Why did he have to go to hospital?
5. What job did he get to earn more money?
6. Who travelled with him for part of his journey?
7. What happened in South America?

Ex: 3. Word Work. Prepositions of movements.(5min)

We often use prepositions with verbs such as go, travel, ride, walk, run, cycle.
He cycled along the banks of the Nile.
He rode through India.
Complete the texts with the prepositions in the box.
Into up along through
From round down across

1. If you want to travel from England to France, you can sail . the English Channel on
a ferry or you can go the Channel Tunnel by train.
2. We rode our mountain bikes . the hill and had lunch at the top. Then we went .
The other side of the hill and made a camp in the valley. In the afternoon we walked
. a path that went . a small lake and then we went back to our camp. After that, we
jumped . the lake for a swim.

III. Conclusion.
a) Reflection (2 min)
b) Giving the home task (2 min)
T: Write down your homework for the next lesson.
Richard Gregg kept a journal of his journey round the world. Imagine youre doing same.
Choose one part of your trip and write about the days events. Write one paragraph about the
morning and one about the afternoon.
Where did you go?
Who and what did you see?
Did anything unusual happen?
How did feel at the end of the day?
c) Evaluation (3 min)
T: Now I want to evaluate your knowledge and put you good mark.
P1: You are the best one who worked hardly today. Your English is very good and I put
excellent.
P2: You want to work industrious, but have some mistakes today. I put mark good.
Do you agree with me?
Stand up, please! Our lesson is over.
-Good bye.

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