At the library (a lesson plan + video)

You should present the theme of the lesson  reading the poem by Varda One :

It's only a room with shelves and books, but it's far more magical than it looks It's a jet on which I soar to lands that exist no more. Or a key with which I find answers to questions crowding my mind. Building my habit of learning and growing, asking and researching till I reach knowing. It's only a room with shelves and books, but it's far more magical than it looks.

2.Ps try to guess the theme of the lesson. It is At the library.

3.Now it's time for  the phonetic exercise , this poem can be used:

Good books, good times

Good stories

Good rhymes

Good beginnings

Good ends

Good people

Good friends

Good fiction

Good facts

Good adventures

Good acts

Good stories

Good rhymes

GOOD books

GOOD times.

3. Pls read and explain the sayings:

•  A good book is the best of friends. (English Proverb)
• ·         People will not be better than the books they read.  (Bishop Potter)
• ·         To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul.(Cicero)
• ·         Medicine for the soul.(Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes)

4.Vocabulary of the lesson:

·         Library - a building where things such as books, newspapers, videos, and music are kept for people to read, use, or borrow,

·         Librarian - a person who is in charge of a library or who has been specially trained to work in a library,

·         to take (borrow) the book - to take a book away for a fixed period of time

·         to return (bring back) a book - give a book back or put it back

·         catalogue - a list of things

·         periodical - a daily, weekly or monthly published work

·         access to the Internet - the ability to use

·         check out a book - to scan your books and register them as checked out in the library's computer system

·         a library card -  a card provided by a library so that library patrons can borrow a variety of materials

- Now it’s time to do the first task in the control papers: match the words with their definitions.

 5. Discussing

  - What do you think about books and libraries?

  - Have you got home libraries?

-   We have already learnt that all  books can be divided into two groups. Can you name them?

 -  Look at the exhibitions of the books in the classroom. Which of them presents fiction and non-fiction books? What books can we find in each of these groups?

·         -Which types of libraries do you know? (For children, public, private, electronic.)

·         -Do we need libraries nowadays?

·         -What library do you go to ?  Why? How often do you go there?

6. We are going to see a short film-song “Libraries”. 

·         
 What can people do at the libraries?(read books, use computers, use the Internet, borrow books, copy papers)

Which sections of books and parts of the library are shown in this film? (reading room, computer room, fiction, nonfiction, periodical sections)

7. The group of pupils shows the PP presentation Our School Library
8. Revising the library rules.
9. It's time to cheer up the school library with these words:

I don't know, but I've been told

Books are bought and books are sold

[step, step, step, step]

I think you and me are right

to read the books all through the night

[step, step, step, step]

Buying books can cost to much

Here's a tip to save your lunch

[clap]

Sound off

[clap]

LIBRARY!

[clap]

Sound off

[clap]

LIBRARY!

[clap]

Sound off

(name of the school) SCHOOL  - LI-BRARY!!!

[clap, clap]

10. You can finish the lesson with a merry song.

If you want to read non-fiction, look this way! (Point to the non-fiction section)
If you want to read non-fiction, look this way!
If you need some information, turn your head to this location.
If you want to read non-fiction, look this way! 

If you want to read a story, look this way! (Point to the fiction section)
If you want to read a story, look this way!
If you want a work of fiction, turn your head to this location.
If you want to read a story, look this way.

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