Открытый урок по домашнему чтению в 10-м классе с углубленным изучением английского языка

Summing up the lesson

Saying good-bye

2. Introduction. Today we have a lesson of home reading. We start reading a new book. It is a collection of fairy tales by a well-known English writer Oscar Wilde. He is called the Prince of Paradox. Have you ever read his novels or fairy-tales in Russian? (students name Wilde’s famous tales and novels)

In the foreword of your books you have a short biography of O. Wilde. Let us describe the main events of the writer’s life (students discuss the life of the writer using the text)

3. At home you were to read the tale “The Happy Prince”.

How do you like it? Is it a sad story or is it a beautiful story? (students give their impression of the story)

Look at the papers you’ve got on your tables. This is the first picture, the first illustration for the tale made in 1888.

Here on the screen you’ve got the original version of the tale, you may compare it with your texts.

While looking at the texts and at the picture, let us describe the Happy Prince. Will you discuss it in pairs first?

Now let us sum up the description of the Happy Prince.

(A student or two describe the picture)

Before we start discussing the tale itself I want you to express the main idea of the tale. Do you agree that the main idea of the story is BEAUTY? There is a sentence about beautiful things, how do you understand it?

(Students give their understanding of the sentence).

Let us think and brainstorm ideas about beautiful things. (Students give their own ideas and write down the words that are associated with BEAUTY. Any variant is acceptable, students may name precious stones, feelings or things from the story they consider to be beautiful etc.)

The teacher draws this multi-angled star with the word BEAUTY in the centre and writes down the examples that the students suggest on the blackboard.

Let us recall the order of the events in the tale. Ex. 1 on page 14 will help you. You are to decide on the order of the events and put them in the proper order. (Students get ready for the retelling of the tale)

Let us check the order of the events.

It’s very important not to forget about grammar while retelling the story. Exercise 5 on page 18 helps us revise the degrees of comparison of adjectives

Let’s recall the main events of the tale. (Students give their own ideas and they may also use Ex. 1 on page 14)

• The Statue of the Happy Prince stood high above the city
• A little Swallow flew over the city one night
• The Happy Prince asked the Swallow to stay for one night and be his messenger
• The little Swallow and the Happy Prince helped people in the city
• The little Swallow kissed the Happy Prince and fell dead at his feet
• God asked His Angels to bring Him the two most precious things

While retelling the students should expand on these events and add more information to those sentences.

Will you give the summary of the tale. (Students give their retelling of the story.

Today we have discussed the first tale by Oscar Wilde.

Hope you have enjoyed it. Will you write the home assignment for the next lesson.

(The teacher gives the home assignment and finishes the lesson).

Thank you for the lesson and good-bye.

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