Урок английского языка "Intelligence" ("Интеллект") в 8-м классе

Тема урока: “Intelligence” («Интеллект»)

1. The beginning of the lesson

Teacher: Good morning, dear pupils! I’m glad to see you today. I hope you are fine and are ready to work hard at our lesson, aren’t you? So, let’s start our lesson.
Look at the picture. What do you think we are going to talk about? What is the topic of our lesson today?

Pupils: answers.

Teacher: The topic of our lesson is “Intelligence”. As you know all people are different and they can be different in different sides.

What Makes people Different?

Appearance, personality, tastes, opinions, education, beliefs, education, language and culture, behavior and manners, skills and experience, dreams and plans for the future.
Today we are touching the most important person’s trait: intelligence.

What makes one person more intelligent than another?
What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool?
Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live?

These are very old questions and the answers to them are still not clear.
I hope we’ll find out the answers at the end of the lesson.
We are going to talk about intelligence.

2. Vocabulary

Teacher:

1). To describe people, to talk about intelligence we need many different adjectives.

Read the text and find out the synonyms and the antonyms of the world “intelligent”.

What makes one person more intelligent than another? What makes one person a genius, like the brilliant Albert Einstein, and another person a fool? Are people born intelligent or stupid, or is intelligence the result of where and how you live? These are very old questions and he answers to them are still not clear.
We know, however, that just being born with a good mind is not enough. In some ways, the mind is like a leg or an arm muscle. It needs exercise. Mental exercise is particularly important for young children. Many child psychologists think that parents should play with their children more often and give them problems to think about. The children are then more likely to grow up bright and intelligent. If, on the other hand, children are left alone a great deal with nothing to do, they are more likely to become slow and intelligent.
Parents should also be careful what they say to young children. According to some psychologists, if parents are always telling a child that he or she is a fool or an idiot, then the child is more likely to keep doing silly and foolish things. So it is probably better for parents to say very positive things to their children, such as “That was a very clever thing you did”, or “You are such a smart child”.

Teacher: Is it clear to you what the word “synonyms” means?

Synonym – a word that that has the same meaning as another word. (Give a synonym of “beautiful”)
Underline these words.
Read them.

Pupils: answers

2). These are synonyms.
Do you think intelligent and unintelligent are synonyms?
They are antonyms.
Antonym – a word that means the opposite of another word
(Give an antonym of “good”)

Take green pieces of paper, look through the text again and put each word in one of four columns, depending on whether it is an adjective or a noun meaning intelligent or unintelligent.

Teacher: Take pink pieces of paper.

Change the words in dark print to make the sentences true, according to the text.

1. Einstein was very stupid. ______________________________________________
2. The more you rest you mind, the more intelligent you should become._____________
3. Parents should never play with their children._________________________________
4. Children who are always left alone are more likely to be bright. __________________
5. It is bad for parents to tell children that they are smart. _________________________
6. Parents should say very negative things to their children. _______________________

Pupils: answers

3. Reading and speaking

a). Teacher: Now I’d like you to tell us about your personality. Look at the blue papers on your desks.
There are 12 astrological signs on them. Some astrologists believe that the stars have influence on our personality.

Teacher: Do you know your astrological sign? What is your sign?

Pupils:answers

Teacher: Let’s read the dialogue. How do people tell about their astrological signs?

– What is your star sign?
– Aquarius.
– What do the stars say about you?
– People born under this sign are friendly and cheerful. They like to be different.
– Is that true?
– It is true that I am friendly, but I don’t think that I am always cheerful. I also don’t like to be different.

Teacher: Work in pairsand complete your own dialogue with your partner.

Pupils: act out their dialogues
– What is your star sign?
______________________
– What do the stars say about you?
________________ are ____________ and _____________. They are interested in _____________________. They like ________________________.
– Is that true?
– Well I am not _______________ and not very _______________. But I am __________________.

c). Teacher: Some of you are bright, some are sharp and quick.
I’d like to introduce you with two families.

1. The Einsteins

2. The Potatoheads

Mrs. and Mr. Einstein have very bright children because they always talk to them in a very positive way.
Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead have children that are not so bright, perhaps because they criticize their children a lot.
Which parents are talking to the children in these sentences?

“You’re a little genius” “That wasn’t a very smart thing to do.” “I can’t believe you could be so unintelligent.” “That was brilliant.” “What a bright child you are.”

“What a smart little boy.” “You’re a little idiot.” “You’re such an intelligent little girl.” “You’re a stupid fool.” “How could you do such a foolish thing?”

Teacher: With this activity I’d like to divide the class into two teams. / Let’s work in groups

d). What would you say them, if you met the Potatoheads?
Don’t forget to use conditionals correctly.

Type 1
If – clause Main clause
If + present simple future

Type 2
If – clause Main clause
If + past simple would + bare infinitive

If you didn’t…………….. your children, they would be ……….
If you ……………………. your children, they wouldn’t be ……………..

Pupils: answers

4. The end of the lesson

Teacher: Is it important to be intelligent and way (why not)?
Start your sentences with the phrases expressing and giving opinion:

In my opinion …
Personally, I think that …
As I see it…..
I believe …..
It seems to me….

What do you think? Are people born intelligent or do they become intelligent with the help of good parents and teachers?

Pupils:answers

c). Don’t forget to talk to your future children in a very positive way and remember that the mind needs exercise. Your home task will be to answer the questions in writing. Write a composition.
Please, prepare this for the next lesson.
Now I’d like to know what you have learnt today. What was easy and difficult for you?
What was interesting?

Continue the sentences:

It was easy to………
It was difficult to …..
It was interesting to…..
It wasn’t interesting to…….
I’ve learnt …….

Thank you very much for your active work in this lesson. You are intelligent and it’s great.
The lesson is over. Goodbye.

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