Использование аутентичных материалов при формировании навыков устной и письменной речи на уроках английского языка

Деятельностный, коммуникативно-когнитивный подход к обучению английскому языку предусматривает аутентичность используемого материала. Данное требование должно учитываться при отборе текстов, ситуаций общения, проигрываемых учащимися ролей. Для чтения и аудирования нужно предлагать тексты из аутентичных источников различных жанров и стилей: подлинные вопросники и анкеты из молодежных изданий на английском языке, фрагменты интервью, сообщения из Интернет, биографические очерки, тексты песен и т.д. Подобного рода материалы позволяют учащимся лучше овладеть английским языком через знакомство с бытом, культурой, реалиями, ценностными ориентирами носителей языка.

Meet Shakira

Presentation: talking about yourself

Aims:

• to revise the language for talking about yourself;
• to revise the language for colours and clothes;
• to revise and compare grammar tenses

Objectives:

• students will develop their creativity;
• students will be able to build sentences
• describing people;
• students will talk about current actions

Materials needed:

• magazine pictures showing celebrities;
• a teenage magazine [1];
• Internet [2];

Lesson plan

Beginning the lesson: practice asking about personal details with the whole class, e.g. How old are you? When is your birthday? What’s your favourite colour?

Presentation: discuss the student’s favourite singers or bands with the whole class, e.g. How old is/are he/she/they? Where does he/she come from? What does he/she look like? What instrument does he/she play? The ask students discuss their favourite singers or bands in pairs Ask individual students to tell the whole class what they have found out from their partners. They should interview each other and complete the profile:

Ex.1 Ask students read about SHAKIRA [2]. Then ask where the article comes from. Make sure they understood the new vocabulary. Ask questions about Shakira’s fact file: How much does she weigh? What does she like doing in her free time? Etc.

. Shakira, the graceful one, has been sneaking up on you-the Grammys, the MTV Video Awards, those Pepsi spots. She's a child prodigy who wrote her first song at age eight, a blond-locked Colombian who speaks three languages and loves only in Spanish. She's a perfectionist who spends hours in the studio; she needs to be close to nature but her passion is the crackle of electric guitars. She is in the blush of youth, but she's far older than her 24 years. As her countryman, Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote, "Shakira's music has a personal stamp that doesn't look like anyone else's and no one can sing or dance like her, at whatever age, with such an innocent sensuality, one that seems to be of her own invention."

The swift ascent of Shakira's star is the stuff of Latin American legend. At the age of 13, she signed her first recording contract with Sony Music Colombia and released her first album Magia. (Magic). After graduating from secondary school, Shakira decided to dedicate her life to the music, recording Peligro ("Danger") and Pies Descalzos, ("Barefeet") in the years that followed, which broke her in Latin America , Brazil (over one million sales) and Spain. Her next album, ?Dуnde Estбn Los Ladrones? produced by Shakira and executive produced by Emilio Estefan, established her as the major force behind Latin pop-rock, going multi-platinum in the U.S., Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Central America, Mexico and platinum in Spain. Then came a Grammy and two Latin Grammys, the key TV appearances, the brave new world of Shakira, the star. Shakira is a walking, living, breathing, singing contradiction. "I was born and raised in Colombia, but I listened to bands like Led Zeppelin, the Cure, the Police, the Beatles and Nirvana," said Shakira. "I was so in love with that rock sound but at the same time because my father is of l00% Lebanese descent, I am devoted to Arabic tastes and sounds. Somehow I'm a fusion of all of those passions and my music is a fusion of elements that I can make coexist in the same place, in one song."

It's the songs that make her new album, LAUNDRY SERVICE, her first with English-language tunes, the kind of breakthrough work that will turn the pop world on its head. From the tango-inflected "Objection (Tango)," to the Middle Eastern flavor of "Eyes Like Yours," to the lyrical innovations of "Underneath Your Clothes", to the richness of the melodies of "The One," to the pop-rock of "Whenever Wherever," Shakira will stand in the ranks of the best singer-songwriters in any language.

"I think I am celebrating life more than ever," said Shakira. "I had a slightly narrow vision of love. Now I am feeling unguarded, and it feels great. I feel washed clean of the way I looked at things in the past, which is why I am calling the album LAUNDRY SERVICE."
 

The most extraordinary thing about LAUNDRY SERVICE is the way she was able to translate her Latin American sensibility into a new language. The idea to do songs in English first came up during Shakira's partnership with Emilio and Gloria Estefan. Gloria initiated the process by translating "Ojos Asн," a song that appeared on Shakira's last album, Dуnde Estбn Los Ladrones? (Where are the Thieves?). "I wanted to have her involved in this somehow because she was one of the people that really believed that I could make a record in English," said Shakira.

 But nurturing the belief that she could write songs in English was a strong challenge. "The first song I wrote by myself for this record was "Objection," remembered Shakira. "I prayed and asked God to send me a good song today, and I remember I started writing the song a couple of hours after. I wrote the music and lyrics at the same time, and when that happens it's really magical to me." When she completed "Objection," she knew that she could write ten more, so she packed up her loved ones and set up portable studios in rural Uruguay. Taking in the primordial energy of natural surroundings, Shakira came up with a crop of new songs more introspective, more passionate than any she had written before. "I had to find a way to express my ideas and my feelings, my day to day stories in English. So I bought a couple of rhyming dictionaries, read poetry, and authors like Leonard Cohen and Walt Whitman," she said.
 "I would feel love in Spanish but I would think about how to express that love in English. Afterwards that became such a natural process, and if you check the subject of my songs, most of them talk about my own experiences and feelings and what I was actually going through in my life," said Shakira. "Is impossible not to write about love.. It's the great mystery of life. It makes me ask myself new questions every day."

Shakira is one of the poetic songwriters of her generation and considered the best female lyricist in Latin America: On the ballad "Underneath Your Clothes," she claims as territory a man she likens to "a song written by the hands of God"; on the blues-rocker "Fool" her "tears make a sea of desert." But she is still as quirky around the edges as she's always been-on "Ready for the Good Times" she remembers close encounters with roaches; on "Poem to a Horse" she scolds a friend dulled by "hydroponic pot," and on "The One," she rewards her true love by shaving her legs and learning how to cook.

"I try to represent only myself, but there are many women that identify with me," said Shakira. "I am definitely not a woman who washes her husband's clothes every day. I hope I don't sound like a feminist leader saying these things. I just try to be honest the way I write."

There's no doubt that Shakira has maintained her creative integrity with her new project. But perhaps more importantly, LAUNDRY SERVICE is a record that reflects her deep love for the basics of rock production. "I felt that I needed to make an organic record with real players in the studio playing live music and doing it like they made records 30 years ago, in the old times," said Shakira. "We used an engineer named Terry Manning, who's worked with ACDC, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz. He's somebody from the old school. I was determined not to depend on too many electronic sounds, and he definitely understood that."

On LAUNDRY SERVICE there is a very strong dedication to old-fashioned rock riffs, to the soulful, bluesy singing styles of a Bonnie Raitt, even the mournful, wailing guitars of Aerosmith. But Shakira can't help being herself, and that means that "Whenever Wherever," will bounce along with some help from Andean pan flutes and Brazilian drums, and "Eyes Like Yours" bursts from your CD player with navel-baring, belly-dancing furor. And for those longing for Shakira in her original language, four new tracks in Spanish are included. "The world has become so small and music is so eclectic now, and our taste is so broad that that's almost predictable that all this crossover from one culture to another was going to happen," she said, then paused for a second, making sure everyone knew she had her priorities straight. "But I know that rock and roll is never going to die."

Quick Stats about Shakira

Real name: Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripol

Occupation: Singer/Songwriter/Actress

Date of Birth: February 2, 1977

Place of birth: Barranquillia, Colambia

Ethnic Background: Colambian/Lebanese

Father: William Mebarak Chadid

Mohter: Nidia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado

Brothers: Alberto, Edward, Moises, Tonino

Sisters: Ana, Lusi, Patricia, Robin

Weight: 106 lbs

Height: 5`2``

Tattoos: None

Current relationship: Antonio de la Rъa

Strong Points: Discipline & Perfectoinist

Fun Facts about Shakira

Her name in Arabic for “woman full of grace”. Sony/Colombia signed her to a record deal at age 13, recorded “Magia”. Had an acting gig on the novella El Oasis. Shakira doesn’t eat candy. Shakira doesn’t drink alcohol or drink coffee. She doesn’t smoke. Shakira’s favourite thing to paint is “fried eggs”.

Pay the student’s attention to the fact that while speaking, it is important to use adjectives in their correct order: quality, size, age, shape, colour, nationality/origin, material. Ex. 2 Present the students a photo and the text about another famous pop star – PINK [1] and ask them to describe the singer using the information from the article using the correct sequence of adjectives: She is a sexy free-spirited rebellious blue-eyed flashy pink-haired English girl. Ex.3 In pairs, the students write sentences to describe real people. Ask class to guess who they are describing.

Интернет также дает уникальную возможность создать для изучающих иностранный язык реальную языковую среду, пользоваться аутентичными текстами, общаться с носителями языка. Так, в завершение дискуссии на тему “Характер” можно предложить учащимся зайти на сайт знакомств, заполнить свою анкету и попытаться найти свою виртуальную “половинку”, предварительно выполнив следующее задание. Here is a topic for discussion with some ideas of language you might use. First try to list as much language related to the topic as possible: What qualities do you look for in an ideal girl/boyfriend of husband/wife?

 Работу с аутентичным текстом можно организовать по-разному. Один из вариантов – использование рекламных проспектов туристических агенств на английском языке при обучении написанию личного письма в рамках темы “Путешествия”. В случае личных писем нет никаких ограничений на тему, тон и стиль письма, однако обратите внимание учащихся на некоторые общие правила: варианты обращения, подписи, начальные фразы письма: Imagine you are on an unusual holiday. Write a letter to an English-speaking friend. First answer the questions:

1. What is the address of the sender? 2. What is the date of the letter? 3. What greetings does the sender use? 4. What is the message of the letter? 5. How does the writer close the letter? 6. Who is the letter from? Look at the signature. 7. What is the postscript (P.S.) about? What did the writer forget to say?

Чтобы поделиться впечатлениями, высказать свою точку зрения, учащиеся вынуждены искать дополнительную информацию по теме, в данном случае в visitors’s guides, которые стимулируют их активную творческую деятельность (Приложение 1).

Использованная литература:

1. Журнал “Speak Out” №6 2002, стр. 24-25
2. Internet: www.shakira_biography