About the lesson “Talk about a place you know...”

On January 9, 2024, Örken East Kazakhstan Regional Scientific and Methodological Center for Informatization and Education Development of Education Administration of East Kazakhstan region, in cooperation with Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Chemistry and Biology of Ust-Kamenogorsk city held an interactive lesson on the topic “Talk about a place you know…”, aimed at revising the theme of Place, as well as grammatical constructions – expressions of quantity – too much, too many, (not) enough, a lot of – with countable and unaccountable nouns).  The speaker was Assel S. Battalova, an English teacher of Nazarbayev Intellectual School of Chemistry and Biology of Ust-Kamenogorsk city.

The lesson aligned with the learning objectives of the English language curriculum for the 7th graders of the social and humanitarian direction of secondary school education. During the lesson, the students listened to an audio description of a place and read the text about the city of Porto and completed the tasks related to the text (filling in the gaps and correcting the mistakes) – in order to reinforce their skill in describing a place they know and what they like about it or not.

The teacher used resources aimed at developing Soft Skills, research activities, taking into account the age characteristics of students. The effectiveness was achieved thanks to the teaching methods involved, based on the theory of Social constructivism (Piaget). The lesson structure is relevant, as it is aimed at developing the theory of Transformational Learning, when the strengthening of the learning effect occurs through changes in relationships, personalities, leading to the development of an independent learning style.