Activity 1: Warm-up · 8 minutes
Heritage around us
a) Aims
Warm-up: Ss recall heritage places they know and identify one place that needs preserving, to activate the topic and the vocabulary of the unit.
b) Content
Ss answer T's questions in pairs: 'Which heritage place do you know well in your area?' 'What threatens it: time, tourists, careless visitors or lack of money?' 'What is one simple way to preserve it while letting people visit?' Ss write three key words on the board, for example heritage, preserve, access.
c) Expected outcomes
A list of 3–4 heritage places named by Ss (e.g. a temple, an old house, a citadel, a traditional village), one threat for each place, and one preservation idea, collected on the board as the starting point for the lesson.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T greets Ss and shows the title 'Preserving our heritage'. T asks: 'Which heritage place do you know well? What threatens it?' T gives 1 minute for pair discussion.
Students
Ss look at the title and think about heritage places they know.
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T monitors and helps with vocabulary, saying the English words for places if Ss need them.
Students
Pairs discuss in English, for example: 'The old town hall is in danger because of heavy rain.' Ss note one idea for preservation.
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T invites 3–4 pairs to report and writes the key words on the board: heritage, preserve, restore, artefact, landscape, interpretation.
Students
Ss report, e.g. 'The old house in our village is damaged by termites. We could restore the wooden parts carefully.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T confirms that the lesson will focus on how to present a viewpoint on preserving heritage, and that the key words will be used in the model. T says: 'Today you will not only speak about the topic, you will also defend your idea.'
Students
Ss copy the key words into their notebooks.