Цели:
- Привитие любви к чтению, воспитание бережного отношения к книге.
- Активизация навыков аудирования.
- Развитие умения вести беседу по заданной ситуации.
Оборудование: книги разных жанров, карточки с пословицами, цитаты знаменитых людей, аудиокассеты с записями смешных историй о знаменитых писателях.
План.
- Сообщение темы
- Аудирование текста “The book”
- Аудирование текста”Paper”
- Обсуждение текстов.
- Загадки
- Пословицы
- Зарядка для глаз
- Составление предложений из слов по карточкам
- Аудирование текстов
1. One of Mark Twain’s jokes.
2. Balzac and the thief.
3. A joke of Conan Doyle.
4. What his life was worth. - Жанры книг.
- Опорные выражения для бесед.
- Цитаты.
- Ситуации для бесед.
- Заключительная часть, домашнее задание.
Ход урока
1. Today we are going to talk about books. We all have books. We use books in the classroom and at home. Every book has a cover. It is often brightly coloured. It can be hard or it can be a paper cover. We open the cover and turn over the leaves. The two sides of the leaf are called pages. The title of the book is on the title-page. Many people work to make a book. You know that books are made of paper. And what is paper made of?
2. Long, long ago the people of Egypt made paper from the tall grass that grows on the banks of the river Nile. On the stalk of this plant there grew a white skin. People tookoff this skin and laid heavy things on it until it became dry and flat. Then they wrote on it. This grass was called the papyrus and from this name we have the word ‘paper’
Later people used the skins of sheep and goats to write on. They called this parchment. It is thick and stronger than paper, that is whythe first books were very large and heavy. Monks who made books in those days worked very slowly.
Now paper is made from many different things:rags of silk, cotton, and even from old ropes. It is made from straw, wood and also from old paper.
3. Here are some riddles. Try to guess!
I have many leaves,
But I am not a tree;
I’m something nice,
Come and read me.
The field is white,
Black is the seed,
And sower who sowed it
Was clever indeed.
I’m neither a rhyme nor a song,
I can be short or very long,
I can be funny or quite sad,
But to read me you’ll be glad.
4. Proverbs and golden rules.
1. Books are our best friends.
2. Choose an author as you choose a friend.
3. Treat books with care as good friends.
4. Do your best to tear, spot, mark up or damage a book in any way.
5. Do not turn down a page to mark the chapter where you left off reading. Use a book-mark.
Now let’s have some break. This exercise is very useful for your eyes. Look at the top of your nose, look at the left side, look at the right side. Look up, look down.
5. Now let’s work in teams. Make up sentences using these words. For the first team-I, spoil, this, shall little , not, book, the, on, nor, it, drop, floor.
For the second team-to, I, spoil, shall, not, in, turn, more, and, its, more, down, corners, it.
For the third team-book’s, little, my, and, friend, me, to, so, I’ll, a, friend , to, be, it.
If you do it in a right way, you’ll see a poem.
I shall not spoil this little book,
Nor drop it on the floor;
I shall not turn its corners down
To spoil it more and more.
My book’s little friend to me,
And so a friend to it I’ll be.
6. We shall listen to the tape now. Then you’’ll give a brief summary of them.
One of Mark Twain’s jokes.
Mark Twain had to give a lecture in a small town. He got to the town in the afternoon, and after dinner went into a shop to buy some ink and paper. Then he told the man in the shop that he wanted to see some of the interesting buildings and places in the town, and he asked the man to tell him what to see and where to go. The man took a city map and showed him where to go. Then he said’Mark Twain is going to give a lecture at the writer’s club this evening. If you want to go to the lecture, you must buy your ticket now. If you don’t, you’ll have to stand during the whole lecture. ’
‘Yes, yes I know, ’Mark Twain said. ’Whenever Mark Twain lectures, I have to stand. ’
Balzac and the thief.
Once Balzac was lying in bed awake. Suddenly he saw a man who wanted to pick the lock of his writing table. The thief was not afraid on hearing a loud laugh.
‘Why are you laughing? asked the thief.
‘I am laughing, my good fellow, ’said Balzac, ’to think what pains you are taking and risk you run in hope of finding money by night in a desk when the owner can never find any by day. ’
A joke of Conan Doyle.
Once a French taxi-cab driver decided to play a joke on Conan Doyle. When the driver received his fare, he said, ’Merci, Mr. Conan Doyle. ’
‘Why, how do you know my name?’
‘Well, Sir, I have seen in the papers that you were coming from the South of France to Paris. Your general appearance told me that you were English; your hair had been clearly cut by a barber of the South of France. So I guessed that it was you. ’
‘That is very remarkable. You have no other evidence to go upon?’
‘Well, said the driver, ’there was also the fact that your name was on your luggage. ’
What his life was worth.
Robert Burns loved the common people and wrote about them. One day he heard a cry for help. He ran towards the water. Just then a sailor jumped offa boat that stood near the dock, and began to swim towards the man who was calling for help.
The man who was saved was a rich merchant. When he recovered, he thanked the sailor and gave him a shilling.
By the time a large crowd had gathered. They called the sailor a hero and protested loudly when the rich man gave him only a shilling.
But Burns stopped them and said, ’Let him alone. Thegentleman is, of course, the best judge of what his life is worth. ’
7. Now let’s work in chain. Tell what you remember from these stories.
8. There are different kinds of books:novels, short stories, tales, fairy-tales, fables, poems, plays, memories, atlases and text-books. Books can be humorous, adventurous, detective, fantastic, historical, political, scientific. They can be interesting, thrilling, fascinating, exciting, useful, unusual, original, amusing, moving, true-to-life, well-written, boring, badly-written, unoriginal.
9. These additional words and expressions will be useful for literary discussion:The plot, the beginning of the plot, the development of the plot, the action, this book is worth reading, the language of this book is expressive and vivid, the characters are well-drawn, true-to-life.
10. Read and translate these quotations from Russian into English:
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. (Richard Steele)
All books are divisible into two classes:the books of the hour, the books of all time. (John Ruskin)
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. (Henry David Thoreau)
11. Be ready to speak about one of these topics:
- Kinds of books.
- Books I was fond of in my childhood
- The kind of book Iprefer.
- The book I found dull.
- Why I am fond of reading.
- Reading is an important means of education.
- Describe the book you have recently read.
- Think of your topics and give your ideas about them.
- Our lesson is over. I believe you’ll certainly agree that books are one of the best inventions of man.