What is your attitude towards teenage years? Do they bring luck to you?
Тип урока: комплексное применение знаний.
Цель: Выработка умений самостоятельно применять знания, осуществлять их перенос в новые условия.
- Учебный аспект – совершенствование речемыслительных навыков на основе чтения аутентичных текстов с разными стратегиями;
- Познавательный аспект – знакомство с высказываниями зарубежных сверстников, о проблемах молодёжи;
- Развивающий аспект – развитие способностей к логическому изложению и формированию выводов;
- Воспитательный аспект – формирование критического отношения к действительности, умения анализировать и давать оценку поступкам и событиям.
Речевой материал – лексика предыдущих уроков.
1. Вступление
Today we have conclusive discussion. What is your attitude towards teenage years? Do they bring luck to you?
Teenagers’ problems constantly attract much attention. It is actually to speak about it. There was the scary, scandal article “Pupils today are monsters and mutants” in one of the “Komsomolskaya Pravda” issues. It’s a kind of shock. The author – 22 years-old young man from Samara accuses new generation in rude behavior, banality, triviality and perversity. He gives the evident arguments. The observer, a well-known journalist Inna Rudenko invites readers to take part in discussion “Is it easy to be young?”. The facts in article are horrible. It’s a pity, we can agree or not, but I am lucky, that our situation is not so scary, especially in our school. We’ll come back to this article later.
2. Let’s determine our ABC’s of Happiness with Robert Vallet. Enthusiasm and happiness will help us in our work and life, I hope.
Look through and say what is suitable for you.
Probably it will show us the way (на доске плакат)
Verbs
Aspire, believe, create, dream, exercise, forgive, glorify, humor, imagine, leave, meditate, organize, praise, question, regulate, smile, think, pursue.
| Philosophical verbs. | Action verbs. |
| Are you a philosopher? | Are you an active person? |
What’s your ABC of Happiness?
3.1. Continue our work. (Приложение №2 What’s “cool”? What’s not?)
Jesse, Digby, Bonnie, Lori, Hugh, Emma – foreign teenagers – British and Australian. What are their ideas?
Read and make clear. Everyone has their own idea about “What is cool”.
Запись на доске.
| “Cool” | Uncool |
| computer | drugs |
| sea | politicians |
| … | … |
3.2. What is “cool” for you? What is not? (discussion)
3.3. Foreign teenagers describe themselves in three words.
What three words are suitable for you? (written task)
| + | - | + > - |
| friendly | nothing | Comments |
| relaxed | strange | |You have more positive than negative traits| |
| mad | weird | |Not bad, really| |
| funny | |You are realistic| | |
| tall | |Great| | |
| something | ||
| everything | ||
| talkative | ||
| individual | ||
| happy |
4. It’s a conclusive discussion, a critical look at what’s like being sixteen. Let’s discuss the critical article in “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, you have read. What are your arguments? (Обсуждение в группах).
5.It’s not Russian teenagers’ problem only. “Sweet Sixteen” (the article from “Digest”, приложение №3).
Questions for discussion on the blackboard:
What social problems are associated with being young?
What influences young people’s life?
What problems worry you?
What is your attitude towards teenage years?
Do they bring luck to you?
6. Ht. Composition “Is it easy to be young?”
p.112-113,115,124-125,128