Цели урока:
- Совершенствование речемыслительной деятельности учащихся через различные формы работы с текстом.
- Определение познавательно-коммуникативных задач в процессе чтения.
- Формирование “стратегии понимания” и умений ориентироваться в логико-смысловой структуре текста.
Развивающие цели урока:
- Развивать языковую догадку и речевую наблюдательность
- Развивать умения высказывать собственное мнение, делать выводы и анализировать полученную информацию
- Совершенствовать умственную деятельность учащихся через анализ и умения сравнивать и делать выводы.
- Развивать умения понимать содержание иноязычного текста, извлекать необходимую информацию.
- Развивать умения сворачивать информацию в схемы и пользоваться таблицами при чтении информации.
Познавательные цели урока:
- Обогатить учащихся знаниями культурологического характера
- Формировать прочные знания лексического и грамматического материала по теме.
- Обогатить словарный запас учащихся с первичной автоматизацией лексических единиц.
Ход урока
1. Введение учащихся в ход урока.
The world of books is enormous. Many people are fond of reading and their interests are different. One can enjoy reading romantic novels but another one thinks it is boring. So it is rather difficult to give some advice on reading.
“Reading is a vital form of communication with the whole mankind and the wisdom of many ages”.
(Oizhas Suleymenov)
“Книги—корабли мысли, странствующие по волнам времени и бережно несущие свой драгоценный груз от поколения к поколению”.
(Френсис Бэкон)
And though nowadays we get information in the other ways as well, many people prefer reading a book as in old good time.
2. Определение целей урока:
WHAT IS READING FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW?
WHAT DOES THE PROCESS OF READING MEAN FOR YOU?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHILE READING?
Picking up the writer’s thread of the plot
Analyzing the facts
Reading the words
Looking at the pictures
Imagining the characters Reading???????
Comparing facts and events
Reading sentences
Skipping the descriptive bits
Predicting the events
Understanding sentences
Looking forward to finishing the book
Catching the main idea
(The pupils choose the combination of words helping them to denote the goals of reading and in this way the goals of the lesson itself and answer the questions)
AND WHY DO YOU READ BOOKS?
DO YOU THINK READING IS VERY IMPORTANT NOWADAYS?
3. Pupils’ answers: (examples)
I think reading is important because
It expands outlook,
It discovers new things,
Books can tell us about ancient times, interesting things, arts and
fashions, lives of famous people, give information about other
countries, their traditions and customs, etc.
4. Texts for reading can be different as well as the aims the texts are read for…Imagine that you are in Britain and you want to learn a bit more about its history and culture. Look through the texts. Match the right telephone number and the information about an exhibition or a tour which you want to go to. Be attentive as there is one extra text.
(Задания даны 2 группам учащихся и выполняются с ограничением времени)
Read the entries from the tourist guide and find the necessary information about each museum matching each entry with the right letter (A—E) and the right telephone number. There is one extra telephone number.
5. If we want to know any foreign language better, we have to read books in this language as much as possible. In this case we are usually recommended to read a book based on our interests. You have samples of the books written in English. Match the titles of the books with the descriptive bits and tell which book you would prefer to read and why.
(Задания даны 2 группам учащихся и выполняются с ограничением времени)
6. Millions of books are published every year around the world. According to John Ruskin, a British writer, “All books are divisible into two classes: the book of hour and the book of all time”. Which book is “the book of all time”, in your opinion; the book you can recommend to your peer from another country to read to learn more about Russian literature?
РЕКЛАМА КНИГИ УЧАЩИМИСЯ (домашнее задание).
“MASTER and MARGARITA”
Mystery is not the main thing,
Try to find the same inside yourself.
I would like to represent the most fascinating, enjoyable, witty and exciting book, which makes me be in sympathy with its ideas, help to realize the things I’ve never noticed before—“Master and Margarita” by M. Bulgakov. I know somebody of you hates this book; somebody doesn’t understand it and think that it is a stupid horror story, mysterious detective or something of that kind. When I was reading this book for the first time, I certainly noticed some magic events like each of you, and followed the thread of outwards developments. But it was the first impression which can be usually wrong. My mother told me: “You’ll understand it later when you’re older”. And it’s really like this.
This book is full of events and characters, and each person is not ordinary, everyone is necessary. Bulgakov created the world existed and which was unreal at the same time. He showed the country which stopped being existed many years ago, the world of the 30s, the communist formation which turned people into the birds without wings. And one of the main characters—Voland—would like to clear out if the people had changed? But he already knew the answer…
The writer mixed up reality and fantasy. But nobody knows where one thing ends and the other begins.
The book fascinates you and you can’t stop reading. The main characters… I love them so much… They are not common. They differ from ordinary persons. That’s why the society exiles them and they are alone in this world. Nobody understands them. It’s difficult but they are able to overcome it. Master and Margarita went to another world and they won’t come back again but they are still alive, if you can draw a parallel.
You know, I can tell that this book is very humorous, too, and you can guess whom I’m speaking about. Of course, they are the Cat named Begemot; the interpreter Korovyev and Azazello. You’ll never meet them but it’s a collective image and one can find oneself in it. I really adore them so much!
And some words about Voland. He seems to be a just and equitable judge. You can conquer the evil only by using the evil forces to restore the justice. And I’d like to add some more words to finish—it seems that everything is clear in this book and the answer to all the questions is on the surface, but you never know what will happen to you next moment, so don’t judge the others, especially those people who are afraid of being lost in this world under different blows brought to them in a course of life. And don’t think you can control your own life.
Of course, you may agree or disagree with me, but it’s only my own opinion, you may have your own one.
(By Ann Podgornova, 11 Form “V”)
“The Dog’s Heart”
It turned out that we also want to recommend you for reading another book by M. Bulgakov. Its title is “The Dog’s Heart”. The book is read with pleasure both by youngsters and grown-ups.
The main character of the novel is Professor Preobrazhensky whose fantastic scientific experiment managed to turn a dog Sharik by name into a human being. He inherited the dog’s name and became Sharikov. Sharikov tries to behave himself like a person, not a clever one to my mind.
Though the book tells us a story which is not true, there are a lot of episodes which are true-to-life moments about the first days of people’s life in a new socialist society.
The writer wanted to attract the readers’ attention to the facts which took place after the Revolution in the minds of common people, who all of a sudden believed that everything was possible without any changes in the people’s conscience.
The book is very interesting for those who like unusual things, but I’m sure that it is also interesting for those who are keen on the history of our country and who share the writer’s pain for the future of Russia.
(By Makayeva Alina, 11 Form “V”)
7. People all over the world value their great compatriots. Writers and poets are among them, so that’s why there are special literary routes for tourists visiting other countries.
This map invites you to explore literary Britain.
Listen to the guide. Find the places the guide mentioned in the story.
WHO ARE THESE PLACES ASSOCIATED WITH?
(Задания даны 2 группам учащихся и выполняются с ограничением времени)
Fill the table with necessary information.
British literature is very rich. You can always find a town, a city or a piece of country connected with a famous writer or a poet. All of us know the names of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott.
The historic town of Stratford-upon-Avon is known as William Shakespeare’s birthplace. Each year it attracts the people from all over the world to come here to have a look at this place and to watch one of Shakespeare’s plays in the theatre just among the scenery the great playwright created his works.
The best place to begin a literary exploration of London is Westminster Abbey. Here you can find the Poets’ corner with the monuments and tombs of well-known writers.
Many famous writers made London their home. Some of their homes are open to the public. You can visit Charles Dickens’ house where he lived from 1837—1839. The houses where Oscar Wilde, George Eliot, Bernard Shaw and others lived are also museums now. Only in London will you have a chance to visit the fictitious addresses of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson whom we all know from the detective stories by Conan Doyle.
Wales has not only produced outstanding writers in the Welsh and English languages, it has inspired poets such as William Wordsworth and Dylan Thomas, too. Here not far from Cardiff, the modern children’s writer Roald Dahl was born.
In Wales you can see the White Rabbit Memorial which proclaimed that Wales inspired Lewis Carroll to write his literary treasure “Alice in Wonderland”.
Bath is a cultural centre which has attracted many novelists, poets and playwrights. Among them are the poets Alexander Pope, Wordsworth and Shelley, writers Tobias Smollett and Henry Fielding, the playwright Richard Sheridan.
Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens stayed here, Jane Austin, the author of “Pride and Prejudice” lived and worked in the city between 1800 and 1806.
Jerome K. Jerome was also born in Wales, in Walsall.
Cambridge and Oxford Universities have produced a great number of writers: Thomas Gray, Milton, Thackeray, Tolkien and many others.
In Scotland you will be told the story of Robert Burns, the great Scottish poet whose poetry has turned into many songs and become very popular.
So join our tour and enjoy our literature.
8. Our country is also proud of its literature and among the glorious names of well-known Russian writers and poets there is the name of one of the most outstanding poets of the XX th century who was described by Maxim Gorky as “A poet so pure and so Russian”. It is Sergey Yesenin, whose 100th birthday was marked in 1995.
Here are some facts from his biography. Do you think these facts will be interesting for your foreign pen-friend, who is fond of Russian literature and wants to know a bit more about it? Match the columns to make up a text about Sergey Yesenin to tell about him to your foreign pen-friend later in your letter.
(Задания даны 2 группам учащихся и выполняются с ограничением времени)
| Sergey Yesenin was born | to a peasant family. |
| The village of Konstantinovo | he started writing verses. |
| near Ryasan | |
| At the early age of eight or nine | is his birthplace. |
| He came to Moscow | and became known as a “poet of |
| the village”. | |
| The young Yesenin was captivated | in 1895 |
| By | |
| They got married | never forgot his relatives. |
| He was kind and | the famous American dancer |
| Isadora Duncan. | |
| He believed that | and went for a wedding trip abroad. |
| He lived only thirty years | “there is no poet without homeland” |
| but he wrote poems that made him | |
| well-known in Russia. |
9. The books we read are different; we use them with different aims. Do you know what kinds of books these ones are? Match the definition and the book.
(Задания даны 2 группам учащихся и выполняются с ограничением времени)
10. We are sure that you discuss the books you read with your classmates. Clear out which books interest your classmates and make up a diagram of the books reading in your class.
(Данное домашнее задание учащиеся выполняют раньше, используя вопросы упражнения 1, страница 137 и упражнение 60, страница 173, учебник О. В. Афанасьевой, И. В. Михеевой “Английский язык, VII)
Ex. 1, page 137
- How much time do you spend on reading?
- What kind of reading do you prefer: do you like reading books? newspapers? magazines? What kind of books, newspapers, magazines?
- When and where do you usually read?
- Do you read books only for your Russian Literature classes or do you do any extra reading?
- Have you got any favourite books, favourite authors or favourite characters?
- How old were you and when you began reading? Do you remember what book was the first that you read? What book did you especially like when you were a young child? Did your parents or grandparents read to you when you were very young? Have you heard of the tradition of reading aloud in the family circle? What do you think of it? Have you ever read books to your younger brother or sister? Do you like doing it? Why?
- Do you collect books? How many books have you got at home? Are they mostly your books or your parents’ books? Where do you keep them?
- How do grown-up books differ from the children’s books? Do you read grown-up books? Do your parents or teachers help you to choose books that you read?
- Do you use any libraries? What libraries? What are they like? Do you find them helpful? In what way?
- What does reading do for you? Is it an important part of your life? In what way can reading be useful to people
Ex. 60, page 173
Interview your classmates to find out:
- How many students read books regularly;
- How many read them from time to time;
- How many don’t read books;
- What kinds of books they prefer;
- What authors they like;
- Who advises them what books to read;
- If they borrow books from a school library / local library / friends or relatives;
- If they think that reading books is important and why
Выводы о проделанной работе представлены в компьютерном варианте в виде таблиц и диаграмм двумя учениками, выбранными для обработки данных, полученных в ходе опроса. Учащиеся сопровождают свои результаты небольшим сообщением на английском языке.
11. Заключительный этап урока, выводы учащихся и учителя о проделанной работе и знаниях, полученных в ходе урока.
(Урок проводился в 11-м классе с учащимися, для которых английский язык является вторым иностранным языком после французского, учащиеся начали изучать английский язык в 7 классе)
Использованная литература:
- О.В.Афанасьева, И.В. Михеева “ENGLISH VII” (Учебник для VII класса школ с углубленным изучением английского языка, лицеев и гимназий), МОСКВА “ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЕ”, 2004
- В.П. Кузовлев, Н. М. Лапа и др. “HAPPY ENGLISH IV” (“СЧАСТЛИВЫЙ АНГЛИЙСКИЙ”, КНИГА 4), МОСКВА “ПРОСВЕЩЕНИЕ”, 1997)
- И.И. Кошманова, Н. А. Сидорова “TOPICS for discussion” (Устные темы по английскому языку), “Издательство СОЮЗ” Санкт-Петербург, 2001