Cambridge Global English Lesson, Stage 7, Unit 1.2 - Making Connections, Giving and Receiving

This lesson is for you if…

• You are looking for a lesson teaching children cases of gift giving in history (The Legend of the Trojan Horse, the Statue of Liberty, Faberge eggs etc.)
• You prefer to teach interesting and engaging lessons rather than straight out of a textbook
• You don’t want to spend hours and hours of your free time planning
• You are environmentally conscious so would rather not print tons of worksheets

The PowerPoint presetation includes everything you need to deliver an outstanding lesson covering part 1.2 of the Cambridge, Stage 7, Global English curriculum (Making Connections - It’s better to give than to receive). This resource is designed to support teaching and learning but does NOT include any of the original Cambridge materials. It is simply based on the same learning objective and so can be used by teachers following that curriculum. It can also be used by anyone wanting to teach learners about famous cases of gift giving in history, particularly the story the The Trojan Horse which is told in full during the lesson.

It includes:
√ Starter activity
√ Learning objective and success criteria
√ Lesson input/ information slides
√ Shared/ whole class consolidation activities
√ Differentiated independent activities
√ Extension tasks
√ Review of relevant prior learning
√ Speaking, listening, reading, writing & grammar activities
√ All answer slides
√ Plenary activity

Learning Objective:
To read and comprehend a text written in the past simple (The Trojan Horse).

Success Criteria:
I can distinguish between regular and irregular verbs.
I can identify the regular and irregular past tense forms of verbs.
I can listen to and understand a story.
I can retell an Ancient Greek legend (The Trojan Horse) in the past tense.
I can describe some famous gifts that were given in the past.

The activities in the lesson include:

• Listening to and retelling a story using drawings (starter)
• A review of verbs and their roles in sentences, distinguishing between regular and irregular verbs etc.
• Differentiated grammar task - identifying the past tense verb forms (3 levels)
• Writing task - retelling of the story
• Peer review activity
• Grammmar task - mistake spotter (plenary)

There’s no need to print anything - students can complete their activities in their notebooks, on whiteboards or by discussing as a class/ in groups. The lesson includes a variety of engaging tasks and activities to suit the needs of different learners (ordering, reasoning, labeling, matching-up, filling-in-the-blanks, speaking, writing tasks etc.).

PLEASE NOTE - Please look at the ‘notes’ section of the PowerPoint for additional information about each slide. These include teaching tips, ideas and further explanations.

This lesson is also suitable for being delivered remotely through online learning with some slight adaptations. It could combine very well with platforms such as Pear Deck and Nearpod.