Activity 1: Warm-up and review · 7 minutes
Weather and Clothes Chain Game
Aims
Ss recall vocabulary and question patterns about seasons, weather and clothes from Units 1 to 5.
Content
T and Ss play a chain game. Each S makes one sentence about the weather in a season, then asks the next S what he or she usually wears in that season.
Expected outcomes
Ss revive the words spring, summer, autumn, winter, cold, hot, and the phrases in + season and What do you usually wear...?
Procedure
Teacher's activities
Pupils' activities
Teacher
T greets the class and explains the rules: 'Let's play a chain game. I start: It is hot in summer. Then you say a new sentence and ask your friend a question.'
Pupils
Ss listen and understand the rules of the game.
Teacher
T starts the chain and asks: 'What do you usually wear in winter?'
Pupils
Ss pass the chain around the class. Expected answers: 'It is cold in winter. I usually wear a jacket.' / 'What do you usually wear in summer?' – 'I usually wear shorts and a T-shirt.'
Teacher
T asks three Ss to repeat their best sentence and corrects the use of in with seasons and the plural noun shorts.
Pupils
Three Ss say their sentence aloud. Expected answer: 'It is hot in summer. I usually wear shorts.'
Teacher
T praises the class and introduces today's aim: 'Today we review the five units with the help of the NeoEdu page.'
Pupils
Ss listen and write the title Review 4 in their notebooks.