Практические задачи:
- Работать над словообразованием с использованием суффиксов;
- Формировать навыки разных видов чтения (поискового, просмотрового и с детальным пониманием прочитанного)
- Формировать навыки говорения на основе текста, ключевых слов, вопросов и цитат;
- Создавать благоприятную атмосферу для дискуссии, основанную на имеющиеся у учащихся филологические знания, материалы для чтении;
- Формировать потребности у учащихся использовать новую информацию для построения высказывания.
Procedure
1. Greeting. /Warming –up./People We Admire.
1) - T. Hello, dear friends! How are you today?
- P1, P2, P3 …
2) - T. I have a question for you. Do you often admire people? As for me, personally I do. I admire all of you, because you are really hard-working and self-motivated students. I also admire Kate because you are extremely diligent and active. I can’t but admire Tanya because you are full of energy. I admire Anya and Sveta because you are very responsible students. Do you admire famous and outstanding people of the past and the present? Why? What qualities do you believe prominent people should possess? What traits of their character appeal to you most?
On the board: modest, creative, self-reliant, responsible, absent-minded, cunning, intriguing, mean, prudent, stubborn, honest, brave, understanding, tender (kind)-hearted, wise, cruel, rigid, hard-working, intelligent, active, careful, optimistic.
Grammar patterns:
I admire people who are full of …
I admire … people.
(Учащиеся работают с памяткой по словообразованию. Приложение 1)
3) - T. I’d like you to know some interesting facts about our political leaders. In 2002 1200 residents of Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Omsk were interviewed by an institute in Moscow and the following psychological portraits of our well-known leaders were created. Are they interesting and funny? Are all of them true?
(на доске: портреты политических лидеров России и их характеристики на русск. яз. Уч-ся переводят их на англ.яз., образуя прилагательные от существительных, данные на листочках. Приложение 2)
Например:
Ельцин Б.Н.
- эмоционально-холодный,
- сноб,
- доступный,
- прямолинейный,
- традиционный,
- индивидуалист.
2. Brainstorming.
T. There’s a person in American history who has always been remembered by his countrymen, though he lived more than a century ago. I suggest that we should listen to this poem written by an eminent American poet who happened to be this person’s contemporary. I’d like you to figure out both the author and the character of the verse. Name them and say for what occasion this poem was written.
O Captain! My Captain!
(W. Whitman)
O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done?
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won.
The port is near, the bells I hear the people all exuting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.O Captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells,
Rise up – for you the flag is flung – for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths – for you the shores a-crowding,
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;Here Captain! Dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will,
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done,
From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;Exult O shores, and ring O bells!
But I with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
Ps listen to the poem, then do the task and formulate the title of the lesson. The teacher says: “That’s right, the topic of our lesson today is “President Abraham Lincoln in the Pace of History”. We are going to learn some more information about this outstanding person and to speak about his character traits.
T. Dear friends, you have one more poem on your desks. (“Смерть поэта” М.Ю. Лермонтов) Let’s speak a little about it, too. What is the title of this poem? Who is the author? Who is the poem devoted to?
Why, do you think, I have chosen these two poems? Was it done by chance?
P1. I don’t think so.
P2. Of course not.
P3. It seems to me, not occasionally, because both poems are devoted to very famous people of America and Russia: a beloved president A. Lincoln and a beloved poet A. Pushkin
T. I quite agree with you. What else is alike in the poems?
P1. The theme of the poems is the same: the assassination of these great men.
P2. The poems are full of grief and compassion many felt for their martyred president and poet.
P3. Both poems are written by famous poets who cannot be indifferent to their beloved geniuses’ death.
P4. Walt Whitman and M. Lermontov are in shock, unable to comprehend the loss.
T. Yes, you are right. It was a loss for the citizens of the whole country both in Russia and in America. Find the lines in the poem “O, Captain!”, proving great national love of people for their idol.
P1. reads the lines of the 2nd paragraph.
T. And you know that crowds of people in St. Petersburg gathered to say good-bye to their favourite poet, the father of Russian poetry A.S. Pushkin.
So, as you see, these poems have much in common. The idea of love, grief, compassion and hatred to the assassins runs through these poems. And what is the intonation of the poems?
P2. It’s very sad and mournful.
T. And what artistic means of expression is the language of the poets rich in?
Ps. Rhetorical questions, exclamations, epithets, comparisons, metaphors, personifications, addresses.
T. I strongly agree with you. And it’s great that during the process of studying English you have an opportunity to get acquainted with masterpieces of foreign literature and compare them with the works by famous Russian writers and poets.
3. Reading Skills
T. And now we are going to read and discuss the text “Honest Abe”. What do you think the text is about?
Ps. About life, political career, character traits of Abraham Lincoln.
Task 1
Read the text and find out what his genius lay in. (поисковое чтение)
Тask 2
Read the text again and fill in the blanks in this scheme “Life Facts”(просмотровое чтение) Приложение 4
Task 3
Make the plan of the text. (group work)
1). The best American president and his genius.
2). Some facts from Lincoln’s biography.
3). Political career.
4). Ideals Lincoln devoted his life to.
5) Tragic Death.
Task 4
Write a short summary of the passages according to the plan. (pair work)
Share your ideas with the group.
4. Speaking and Listening Skills. (group work)
T. I have some quotations - the words Lincoln lived by, timeless principles to light your path. Pick up a quotation to make comments about them. Key questions, key word combinations can be useful to you.
Here are the quotations:
“The house, divided against itself cannot stand.”
“With malice towards none, with charity to all.”
“Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.”
“If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.”
“War is a hellish way to settle disagreement.”
Key Questions:
How did Lincoln feel about slavery?
Which party did he join in the 50s? Why?
How did he call the American government of that period of time?
How did Lincoln feel about the equality of the blacks and whites?
Does Lincoln deserve to be called a friend of slaves?
How did Lincoln feel about war?
How did he call the Civil War?
What kind of message did he write to Congress in a wartime?
Why did he speak too much about the responsibility of people unleashing war?
What kind of man was Lincoln?
What was the main principle of his life?
What wonderful ability did he have? Why do Americans remember Abraham Lincoln the best and with deepest affection?
Key ideas:
The warmth, wisdom, and humor of the 16th president come alive in this collection of inspiring quotations on achievement, responsibility, simplicity, and other timeless values that form the foundation of a meaningful life.
Key word-combinations:
tragic conflict
to pit neighbor against neighbor
historic conflicts over issues of state’ rights
to abolish slavery
to oppose to slavery
half-slave
to be responsible through time and in eternity
to become acute
to secede from the Union
to preserve the Union
600,000 men dead, over 1,100,000 injured
to pay a huge prize
thousands on both sides
ability to recognize the truest aspirations of his people
Учащиеся комментируют выказывания Линкольна, опираясь на текст, ключевые слова и вопросы.
5. Summarizing.
T. Thank you very much for your work today. You’ve got much information about the 16th American president A. Lincoln and about a very difficult period of time for America, the period of war and instability. How did people call A. Lincoln? The best president. Why? What character traits did he possess? What kind of person was he?
Ps описывают черты характера Линкольна.
Т. Yes, you are quite right. And you know that in Washington, D.C., the American capital, there is a monument to A. Lincoln and every year thousands of American citizens come here to honor the memory of this great common man. “In this temple as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever.”
6. Homework.
You should be prepared to discuss the following question: Do you think that A. Lincoln will be a good president today? Why? Why not?