Activity 1: Warm-up · 5 minutes
Lead-in: Why Do We Protect Heritage?
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about heritage and get familiar with the key vocabulary and the idea of purpose in language.
b) Content
T writes the words heritage, preserve, restore, artefact, landscape and interpretation on the board. Ss guess their meanings from context and their own knowledge. T then writes two sentences on the board: 'We visit heritage sites to learn about our past.' and 'We restore old buildings to keep them for the future.' T asks: 'Why do people visit heritage sites?' and 'Why do we restore old buildings?'
c) Expected outcomes
Ss' guessed meanings of the key words (later checked in Practice 2) and the answers: 'We visit heritage sites to learn about our past.' and 'We restore old buildings to keep them for future generations.' Ss notice that to + base verb explains the purpose of an action.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T shows the six words on the board and asks Ss to look at them quietly for 30 seconds. T then asks the two guiding questions.
Students
Ss look at the words and listen to the questions. They think about their answers silently.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T gives Ss 1 minute to discuss the questions in pairs and guess the meanings of the words.
Students
Ss discuss in pairs. Possible answers: 'To learn about history.' 'To keep the building for the next generation.' Ss guess: heritage = something passed down from the past; preserve = keep safe.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 2–3 pairs to share their answers and gently corrects pronunciation of the new words.
Students
Ss share answers, for example: 'We visit heritage sites to see old things.' 'We restore buildings to make them strong again.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms that to + base verb expresses purpose and says that the lesson will focus on this structure and on intonation. T writes the title on the board.
Students
Ss copy the two model sentences into their notebooks and note the new words.