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Title: In the mouth of stone mountains.
Slozhenikina Marina
School-gymnasium # 10,Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
E-mail: sc10@ukg.kz (for Slozhenikina Marina)
Language level of students: Elementary
Age group: Teens
Time: 80 minutes
Skills / aspects focus: speaking, reading, vocabulary, and grammar
Grammar: The Past Indefinite Tense
Credit published materials: The Phenomenon of the Unknown Continent (Encyclopaedia) / 2003 / 384p.
Objectives: students would be able to
•read the text,
•answer the true/ false questions
•make up 5-7 sentences with new vocabulary
•divide the text into parts and entitle them
•retell the text in chain.
Activity
Read the text and answer the questions.
- True\ false questions:
1 Fortress Ust-Kamennaya was founded in 1820.
2 The fortress was to defend the inhabitants.
3 Ust-Kamennaya became an oblast center in 1939.
4 Ust-Kamenogorsk is called «the town of scientists».
5 There are only churches in our town.
- Make up sentences of your own with new vocabulary.
- Divide the text into parts and entitle them.
Post-activity
Retell the text in the following way (in turn): the first student says the first sentence; the second one says the first sentence and the next one, the third – the first two sentences and his own one etc.
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