Сценарий урока по теме: "Environmental Protection Concerns Everyone". 7-й класс

Разделы: Иностранные языки

Класс: 7

Тип урока: обобщающий.

Образовательные технологии: личностно-ориентированная технология, проектная технология.

Задача учащихся: создание коллективного микро-проекта “Дерево добрых дел”.

Цели: формирование обобщённых знаний по теме и оперирование ими.

  • Учебный аспект: систематизация, обобщение и закрепление пройденного материала по теме, обучение чтению текста с различными учебными стратегиями (skimming, scanning), закрепление грамматических навыков говорения с использованием структур Passive voice (Simple), повторение словообразования существительных.
  • Развивающий аспект: развитие личностной активности учащихся, развитие способности к анализу, обобщению и формулированию собственных выводов.
  • Психологический аспект: радость совместного труда, создание ситуации успеха.
  • Воспитательный аспект: учить учащихся бережно относиться к окружающей среде, воспитывать активную жизненную позицию, формировать потребности и способности к сотрудничеству и взаимопомощи при работе в паре и группе.
  • Практический аспект: коллективное создание микро-проекта.

Оборудование:

  • наглядный материал по теме;
  • плакаты, выпущенные учащимися;
  • плакаты с высказываниями великих людей;
  • грамматическая таблица “Passive voice”.

Учебный материал:

  1. Афанасьева О. В., Михеева И. В. Английский язык. Учебник для VI класса школ с углублённым изучением английского языка. М. Просвещение. 2001.
  2. Конышева А. В. “Организация классных часов на английском языке”. Каро, Минск. 2004.
  3. Цветкова И. В. и др. Английский язык для школьников и поступающих в ВУЗы. Глосса, М. 2001.
  4. Speak out. Hot Issues. Глосса-Пресс. М. 2004.

P R O C E D U R E

Greeting. Introduction to the theme of the lesson.

Teacher: Good-morning, boys and girls! Sit down, please. I hope you are OK today and ready to work hard and enthusiastically.

Today we have our conclusion lesson on the topic “Environmental problems”

The subject matter of today’s lesson is “Environmental protection concerns everyone”. And I do hope this problem concerns each student of your class.

Look at the apple. Imagine it’s our Earth. I’m cutting it into 4 pieces. Three quarters of the Earth surface is water and only 1/4 is land. One half of it is habitable. The rest of the land is the deserts, mountains, frozen ice-caps and other places where people cannot live in. And now I’m cutting this half into four parts. It’s impossible to believe but only 1/32 gives us food and shelter. And it will be a catastrophe if we destroy it I’d like you to think over this problem much more seriously and find out ways to save our fragile planet.

Vocabulary.

а) Give English equivalents to the following Russian words and word-combinations:

  • защищать окружающую среду;
  • решать экологические проблемы;
  • загрязнение воздуха, воды, почвы;
  • выбрасывать тонны вредных веществ;
  • промышленные и ядерные отходы;
  • отравлять моря и реки;
  • использовать как свалку;
  • испытывать ядерное оружие;
  • производить много углекислого газа;
  • вырубить большие территории тропических лесов;
  • разрушение живой природы;
  • вымершие животные;
  • животные, находящиеся под угрозой вымирания;
  • поддерживать партии зелёных;
  • создавать парки для вымирающих видов;
  • перерабатывать мусор.

b) Match the words with their definitions

1. Ecology a) A gas in the atmosphere. The gas that we breathe out.
2. Environment b) The Earth is becoming warmer because there is too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
3. Flora c) The study of how living things interact with each other.
4. Fauna d) This is the atmosphere between 10 km and 60 km above the Earth. The ozone stops a lot of the ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
5. Habitat е) When the land, sea or air becomes dirty or poisonous.
6. Pollution f) Part of sunlight.
7. Carbon dioxide g) A place that provides animals and plants with food, water and shelter.
8. Greenhouse effect h) The wise use of the environment.
9. Ozone layer i) It means simply what is around us.
10. Ultraviolet radiation j) All the plants that grow in a region.
11. Conservation k) The animals of a region.
12. Acid rain l) Rain containing acid.

 Word formation. Complete the table forming nouns from verbs.

VERB NOUN
to protect  
to pollute  
to poison  
to emit  
to dump  
to destroy  
to produce  
to breathe  
to threaten  
to recycle  
to populate  
to conserve  
to collect  

Use of English.

Read each sentence and make up another sentence with the same meaning using passive structures.

  1.  Pollution in the air causes acid rain.
  2. Factories emit tons of harmful chemicals.
  3. People destroyed trees and lakes in many parts of the world.
  4. Rainforests produce a lot of oxygen.
  5. Radio and TV forecast weather several times a day.
  6. People of ten grow vegetables and flowers in greenhouses.
  7. Many countries use seas and oceans for dumping industrial and nuclear waste.
  8. The French Government tests nuclear weapons in the Pacific Ocean.
  9. Pouring oil into the water will cause the destruction of our seas and rivers.
  10. People keep animals in cages. Isn’t it awful!
  11. Every year people cut down big areas of rainforests.

Reading:

Read the text and say if the stream is in trouble or not. What statements tell you the stream is in trouble? What statements describe how to clean up a stream?

Study a stream.

  1. It is full of fallen leaves.
  2. Remove garbage from the water.
  3. Plant trees along the bank to prevent erosion.
  4. The water is sudsy.
  5. There is no life in the stream.
  6. It smells bad because it contains sewage.
  7. There is a shiny film on the water’s surface because oil has leaked into it.
  8. If you discover signs of chemicals being dumped in the stream, report it to grown-ups.
  9. Too mush algae have turned the water green.
  10. The water is muddy because there’s too much dirt in it.

Glossary.

  • sudsy = soapy
  • sewage – сточные воды
  • algae – plants that have no roots, stems or leaves and grow in water or in other wet places.
  • muddy = dirty

Mini-discussion

Answer the questions:

  1. What important environmental problems endanger people’s lives nowadays?
  2. What makes the seawater dangerous nowadays?
  3. Where does air pollution in the cities come from?
  4. What do you know about the greenhouse effect? How can the greenhouse effect influence the climate on the planet in future?
  5. Why are a lot of species of plants and animals disappearing fast and can become extinct very soon?
  6. What happens to rainforests? Why are they so important for the life on the Earth?

 Making a mini-project “The tree of good deeds”.

What can you personally do to help the environment nowadays? Tell about one thing you do to help the environment. (Students work in 2 groups. One group generates ideas that we should do and the other group that we shouldn’t do to keep our planet clean. Time is limited up to 5–7 minutes. Then pupils write their ideas on the leaves and pin them to the tree.)

Homework.

Write a letter to your pen-friend and ask him what he/she does to help our planet.

Drawing conclusion.

Teacher: Today we’re tried to summarize our knowledge on the topic “Environmental problems” and to find out some ways how to save our planet Earth.

I believe you’ll never pollute the environment, the place where you live.

I’d like you to remember this saying “Nature pardons no errors to the rest of your life. Thank your for your creative and active work. Good byе.