Цели урока:
- обобщение ранее изученного материала по данной теме;
- активизировать речемыслительную деятельность учащихся;
- развитие навыка аудирования;
- формирование у учащихся уважения и интереса к культуре страны изучаемого языка.
Задачи урока:
Обучающие:
- обучение рецептивным видам речевой деятельности;
- формирование и развитие коммуникативных умений учащихся на основе языковых, лингвострановедческих и социокультурных знаний, навыков: умения воспринимать на слух и понимать краткие сообщения.
Развивающие:
- развивать мышление, умение дать оценку, высказывать свое мнение;
- развитие языковых, интеллектуальных и познавательных способностей, чувств и эмоций учащихся, готовность к коммуникации.
Социо-культурные:
- развитие образного мышления, эрудиции учащихся, их лингвистического, филологического и общего кругозора.
Воспитательные:
- формирование у учащихся уважения и интереса к культуре страны изучаемого языка;
- воспитание культуры общения;
- воспитание чувства толерантности;
- воспитание интереса к учению и формирование познавательной активности;
- формирование потребности в практическом использовании языка в различных сферах деятельности.
Ход урока
I. Travelling to all corners of the world gets easier and easier. We live in a global village but how well do we know and understand each other? That’s why it’s very important to discuss the problem “How to be an alien” and what difficulties you would come across being an alien.
I would like to start with the following cartoons. (На доске несколько картинок).
1. What nationalities are the people?
2. What makes it easy for you to identify them?
П. The national characteristics given by you are called stereotypes and if you look at the dictionary entry for a definition of ‘stereotype’ in your SB it reads as following (p.69).
1. What is the stereotype English man or woman?
2. What do you think is the stereotype for our nationality, the Russians? (The Russian ‘авось’).
3. Do you believe in stereotypes?
Ш. Well, we’ve just spoken about the national stereotypes, but to my mind there exist international stereotypes, especially if we speak about everyday life or relations in a family or about literature. And surely, it must be regarded sometimes humorously. For instance, let’s think what is implied in the following notions:
a) a hen-pecked husband
b) a nagging wife (Give the examples of these characters from literature)
c) a romantic hero
IV. Stereotypes are a part of human life and normally national stereotypes are often described in anecdotes, humorous stories, private diaries, etc. Do they help us understand other nations or do they mislead us?
Now you’ll listen to some people discussing a joke based on national stereotypes of the Scots, the Irish and the English.
Follow the instructions in your SB (p.69) questions 1, 2.
1. What national characteristics are implied in the joke?
2. How did the Irishman feel about the joke?
V. Some people may get upset about such jokes, so it means that the jokes may be offensive as well.
What type of joke do you consider offensive?
Let’s listen to the second part of the story and answer the third question in your SB
What other types of joke did the people think were perhaps more offensive?
VI. 1. Are there similar ‘nationality’ jokes directed against certain regions in this country? (Chukchi)
What do you think of them?
What is the reason for such jokes?
2. How can you characterise them, whether they are kind or offensive?
3. What sort of joke makes you laugh?
VII. Well, it’s quite understandable that there exist stereotypes of different nationalities and that’s why we should always bear in mind when abroad the main features of the country and the people you visit. And as a result of it you should know how NOT to behave badly abroad.
There’s a saying ‘When in Rome do as the Romans do’.
Do you agree with it?
What similar saying do we have in our language?
You see if you wink to a person in Russia it means your friendly attitude towards him, sometimes your mood or state or when you want to play a trick on somebody. But in Pakistan you mustn’t wink, it’s offensive. Therefore you should first think what to say and what to do, as each country has its own rules of behaviour.
VIII. Now let’s imagine that your friends are going to travel to different countries on business or for pleasure: Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the USA, France, or the Middle East.
- What advice would you give them?
- What should they always remember when abroad?
IX. So now you know a lot how to be an alien and I wish you good journeys to different places and making real friends there.
At home think of a story in which people of different nationality behave differently.
Tapescript
MAN 1: It’s quite good actually.
MAN 2: It’s not bad.
MAN 1: Well, I’ve got one but you’ll have to excuse my bad Irish accent. Er… There’s an Englishman, Irishman and a Scotsman and they’re all going on this expedition to the Sahara Desert, right? Now… Now…
MAN 2: Mm.
MAN 1: …there’s a discussion before they leave the country, and during the discussion they discuss what precautions they’re going to take for the sun and the heat and the weather, you know, er, and the Englishman’s asked what precautions he’s going to take and he says, erm: ‘I’m going to take a bowler hat to protect my head from the sun.’
MAN 2: Mmm.
MAN 1: And so the others say: ‘Ah, right, yes.’ Then the Scotsman’s asked what he would take and he says: ‘Ah, I’d take a bottle o’whisky.’ Right?
MAN 2: Mmm.
MAN 1: And then the, er, Irishman was asked what he would take and he says: ‘Ah, I’d take a car door.’ So the other two say:
‘A car door?’’…
MAN 2: Mm, uh, huh.
MAN 1: … ‘What’s all that about?’ And he says: ‘Well, when it gets hot I can wind down the window.’
ALL: Mmm. Ah yes, yes…yes. Yes,mm.
MAN 3: Tell me, do you get upset about jokes in which Irishmen appear in a foolish light?
MAN 2: No, absolutely not. No, not at all.
WOMAN: Well it’s just the old story of the stereo- typing, you know, like the mother-in-law jokes and all the rest. Everything is stereo- typed so it just depends where you live.
MAN 1: Generalisation, isn’t it?
WOMAN: I don’t agree with people getting upset about it, though, because it happens, everybody’s doing it. To start saying…
MAN 3: Sure, sure.
WOMAN: You know.
MAN 3: It can be offensive though, can’t it?
MAN 2: Can be.
MAN 3: I mean, some of the things in the stories that are told about black people …
MAN 2: Yes …
MAN 3: … or Pakistanis can sometimes be really hurtful. Well racist and, er, sexist jokes are particularly …offensive because it’s such a big group you’re …
MAN 2: Yes, national jokes in other words might be quite acceptable but racist jokes go over the top.