Урок английского языка. Тема: "Kamchatka is a Wonderland"

Цели урока.

Образовательная: активизировать лексику по теме, повторить материал о географическом положении Камчатки, познакомить с легендой о вулканах.

Развивающая: совершенствовать навыки и умения практического владения английским языком по данной теме по аудированию, говорению, чтению; развивать умение сравнивать, делать выводы и отстаивать свою точку зрения.

Воспитательная: воспитывать чувство патриотизма, учить заботиться об окружающей среде, повысить интерес к изучению иностранного языка.

Оборудование: магнитофон, интерактивная доска, компьютер, проектор.

Teacher:

Good morning, my dear boys and girls! I am very glad to see you at our lesson. Our lesson is called “Kamchatka is a wonderland”.

We’ll revise some facts about geography of Kamchatka, learn and repeat the words. You will guess the quizzes, learn an interesting legend.

Teacher:

To work better let’s revise the words. Look at the blackboard, you see some words. Let’s read them and try to translate.

• Peninsula.
• Protected nature territories.
• State nature preserve.
• Reserve.
• Extinct volcano.
• Thermal and mineral springs.
• Valley of Geysers.
• The Red Data Book.

Make the word combinations or sentences with these words.

Teacher:

What is Kamchatka for you? As for me Kamchatka is my Motherland. I was born here, live, work, have friends.

• Kamchatka is my native land.
• Kamchatka is a very beautiful and unique place.
• Kamchatka is the best place in the world
• Etc.

Teacher:

I want to invite you to travel around Kamchatka. It will be a travel with some quizzes.

Teacher asks some questions and shows the presentation about the geography of Kamchatka. (Приложение 1)

• Where is Kamchatka situated?
• What seas and oceans is it washed by?
• What is the main river? What other rivers do you know?
• What are the special sights of Kamchatka?

Pupils answer the questions, guess some quizzes, using the presentation.

Teacher:

Kamchatka is a home of volcanoes. There are about 150 volcanoes in Kamchatka, 30 of them are active. Do you know how the volcanoes appeared in Kamchatka? I’ll tell you an interesting legend.

Legend.

There are a lot of legends and tales about the origin of volcanoes. I’ll tell you one of them.

Long, long ago there were no volcanoes in Kamchatka. It was a vast lowland. The groups of deer  grazed in this plain. The brave young men grazed them. They lived in harmony. But one day a beautiful girl appeared among them. The young men loved the girl, everybody wanted to be her husband. The men began to quarrel.

The shaman woman threatened that she would turn the men into the stone mountains if they didn’t stop to quarrel. But the young men didn’t pay attention to her words. The shaman woman kept the word. She turned them into the mountains. But the love of the men was so hot that the hearts of the mountains melt and lava splashed as blood.

The shaman woman could not turn their hearts into the stone. The fire of the young hearts was stronger than her witchcraft.

So volcanoes originated in Kamchatka.

How good do you know the names of our volcanoes?

The teacher shows the presentation. The pupils guess the names of volcanoes, make sentences about them.

The Kizimen Volcano (2485)

Teacher:

There is one of the world’s wonder in Kamchatka. What is this? Of course, it’s the famous Valley of Geysers. What do you know about this place? Who opened the Valley of Geysers?

Pupils make a report about the Valley of Geysers, show the pictures.

The Valley of Geysers is a geyser field in Russia, and has the second largest concentration of geysers in the world. This 6 km long basin with approximately ninety geysers and many hot springs is situated on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East, predominantly on the left bank of the ever-deepening Geysernaya River, into which geothermal waters flow from a relatively young stratovolcano, Kikhpinych. Temperatures have been found to be 250 °C, 500 m below the caldera ground. It is part of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve, which, in turn, is incorporated into the World Heritage Site "Volcanoes of Kamchatka". The valley is difficult to reach, with helicopters providing the only feasible means of transport.

The "pulsating" geysers of Kamchatka were discovered by a local scientist, Tatyana Ustinova, in 1941.She published her findings fourteen years later, but there was little exploration of the area until 1972. A systematic survey was undertaken in the mid-1970s, and an automatic monitoring system was introduced in 1990. Over thirty geysers were given names; among these was the Giant geyser (Velikan), capable of producing a jet of water reaching up to 40 meters. From the 1980s, the area was promoted across the USSR as one of the tourist magnets of Kamchatka and the Russian Far East. Foreign tourists were allowed into the valley in 1991. About 3,000 tourists visited the site annually.

Teacher:

The nature of Kamchatka is unique and beautiful. But it can be destroyed if people don’t take care of it.

What can we do to protect our motherland?

• People should protect the animals. Some animals are in The Red Data Book.
• There are protected nature territories, the state nature preserves, the reserves in Kamchatka.
• We should take care about the animals, the birds.
• We should protect the forests.
• Etc.

Teacher:

Our lesson will be over soon. I hope it was interesting and useful for you. To my mind each of you try to do the best during the lesson. We live in the wonderful place and we should do everything we can to save this land for other generations.

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