Открытый урок по английскому языку на тему "Welcome to Saint Petersburg"

• образовательная – расширение знаний об особенностях культуры родной страны, знакомство с достопримечательностями.
• воспитательная – формирование патриотического отношения к своей стране.
• развивающая – развитие коммуникативных способностей, логического мышления, делать выводы.
• практическая – развитие речевых умений (монологической и диалогической форм речи).

• рассказать об истории и основных достопримечательностях Санкт-Петербурга;
• совершенствовать речевые умения по данной теме;
• совершенствовать умения аудировать с целью извлечения необходимой информации;
• подобрать открытки, плакаты с видами Санкт-Петербурга.

Оборудование:

• стенгазета “WELCOME TO SAINT PETERSBURG”, видеомагнитофон,
• видеокассета, открытки, плакаты с различными видами Санкт-Петербурга,
• карта города, карточки с заданиями.

TEACHER: Good morning, my friends! Your homework for today`s lesson was to work in groups and to make a project “Welcome to St. Petersburg”. I hope you were friendly and helpful while you were working on this project. And I hope the results will be excellent. You should be very attentive today and at the end of the lesson you will have to fill in the blanks in the “St. Petersburg. Sightseeing” quiz.

Every year a lot of people visit St. Petersburg. This city is fantastic! Imagine that one group of American tourists is in St. Petersburg for the first time. They want to see famous sights of St. Petersburg. This gentleman is a group leader (GL). And that one is a correspondent (C). He always asks many questions. These ladies and gentlemen are guides (G) from the St. Petersburg Tourist Information Office. This gentleman is a head (H) of the office. And I am an American tourist too. And you should present your project. I think we`ll start with a visit to the St. Petersburg Tourist Information Office. Let`s begin.

Разговор между представителем группы и директором.

GL: Good morning!

H: Good morning! Can I help you?

GL: I am the leader of a group of American tourists. We are in St. Petersburg for the first time and we would like to see famous St. Petersburg sights. What could you suggest?

H: I can suggest a double-decker bus tour about St. Petersburg.

GL: Oh, thank you, I think it is the best way of traveling.

H: Here you can also see some leaflets about the most famous St. Petersburg sights.

GL: Thanks a lot!

TEACHER: Our excursion starts.

GUIDE 1: Dear guests! As you know St. Petersburg is the second largest city in Russia and it is one of the most famous cities in the world. The city is situated on the Neva. It was founded in 1703 by Peter the Great as the “Window on the West”. When the First World War began in 1914, the German-sounding name, St. Petersburg, was changed to Petrograd. After the October Revolution the city was renamed after Lenin.

During the Great Patriotic War Leningrad was cut off from the rest of the country for a year and a half. No food could be brought in, and people died of starvation.

Rebuilding took years. Now St. Petersburg is an important, industrial, cultural and educational center. The population of the city is over 5 million. There are many sights in St. Petersburg: The Winter palace, the Hermitage, the Resurrection Cathedral, the Peter-and Paul Fortress and the Admiralty building.

G 2: And now we start our tour from the Complex of the Central Squares (Рисунок 1). The group of central squares perceived as a large-scale architectural ensemble. The spaces of Palace Square, Admiralty Square, Decembrists` Square, Stock Exchange Square and the Field of Mars make up a fine necklace in the centre of the Northern capital. The architectural patterns of these squares were formed in the course of two centuries and now, linked into a single as they are. The Triumphal Arch linking the two wings of the General Staff building, as well as the Alexander Column, the biggest commemorative pillar in the world, make up a majestic memorial to the feat of the Russian people in the war of 1812 against Napoleon Bonaparte.

G 3: Now we are coming to the Winter Palace (Рисунок 2). The city`s focal point on the Place square, was the main residence of the imperial dynasty in St. Petersburg. It is the fifth building. The first building, a small wooden house, was erected opposite the Peter- and-Paul Fortress for Peter in 1711-1722 after a “model” project by Dominico Trezzini. In 1716-1722, George Mattarnovi put up the second Winter Place near the eastern bank of the Winter Canal, at the palace of the present-day Hermitage Theatre. It was in this palace that Peter the Great died on 28 January 1725. In 1726-1727 Trezzini enlarged this building for Catherine I. In 1731-1735, the fourth Winter Place was put up to a project by Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli.

In the middle of the eighteenth century Empress Elizabeth Petrovna found it too small for her. So in 1754-1762 Rastrelli built a new palace.

In 1767-1769, Jean-Baptiste Vallin de la Mothe designed the so called “La Mothe`s Pavilion” as the Small Hermitage, and on 1770-1787, the architect Yury Velten constructed one more palace – The Large Hermitage.

The palace is an integral architectural complex, a city within the city. When Empress Catherine the Great became the owner of the Winter Palace in the summer of 1762, she arranged in its several rooms a hermitage, or a palace of retreat.

In 1764, 225 paintings were brought to the Empress` s Hermitage and from that time on towards works of art purchased for it one after another.

Now, our guests, I invite you to visit this so called “state museum”. You will see the state rooms of the palace, in which different ceremonies of the imperial family used to take place.

Let` s start with the St. George Hall (Рисунок 3) or Large Throne Room with Carrara marble. This state room was intended for official ceremonies. It contained the canopied imperial throne with the coat of arms bearing a representation of the victorious St. George as the patron of Muscovy – hence the name of the hall.

The Malachite Drawing-Room, the dеcor of which became a model for the decoration of palatial drawing-rooms in the middle of the 19^th century.

C: For what did it serve?

G 3: It served as the main drawing-room in the apartment of Alexandra Fiodorovna, the eldest daughter of King Frederick William of Prussia and Nicolas I`s wife.

Of particular interest is also the interior of the Golden Room – a dazzling large corner room once occupied by Grand Duchess Maria Alexandrovna.

AMERICAN TOURIST 1: Why is it called “Golden Room”?

G 3: Because it is provided with gilt furniture modeled on Baroque examples by Andrei Stakensneider. Nowadays, the Golden Drawing Room houses is a large collection of carved gems, which rivals the most brilliant assemblages of this kind in the world.

G 4: Now we are in the Pavilion Hall This ornate hall decorated in an oriental style to display magnificent examples of Italian and Russian mosaics. In this hall you will also see “The Peacock Clock” (Рисунок 4) by James Cox. This is the XVIII^th century. The clock is reminiscent of a fairy-tale garden – its dial is in the cap of the large mushroom, while the complex mechanism is concealed under the hill. Look, how this clock works.

(Учитель с помощью видеозаписи демонстрирует учащимся работу этих часов)

Now, we are in the Department of Western European Art. There were some first-rate examples of High Renaissance art. Today, the room is used to display the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. The celebrated Italian master practiced various kinds of art. Two of his few authentic surviving paintings: “The Madonna with a Flower” and “The Madonna and a Child”.

AMERICAN TOURIST 2: Excuse me. I have got a question. Is it true that the Department of Western European Art is the earliest in the Hermitage?

G 4: Yes, it is the perfect truth! Works by Western European masters became the first accessions that made up the core of the future art collections of the now famous museum.

AMERICAN TOURIST 2: Thanks a lot.

G 1: Dear guests! Our tour in Hermitage is over. Now let` s go to see other interesting places in St. Petersburg.

G 2: Ok, here we can stop our bus to visit “The Peter-and-Paul Fortress”

G 5: Dear friends! You see “The Peter-and-Paul Fortress”(Рисунок 5) in front of you. It is the historical centre of St. Petersburg. It was built to a project by Domenico Trezzini who supervised the construction between 1703-1734. By sad iron of fate, the fortress built as a defensive structure from outward enemies was never used for military purposes. However, it had to play the role of The Russians. Bastille – the place of confinement of inner enemies, the first of which was Tsarevich Alexis, son of Peter the Great. The dominant feature of the Fortress area is the SS Peter and Paul Cathedral, which has remained the tallest architectural structure in St. Petersburg: the height of its many-tired bell tower with a golden spire is 122.5 meters.

C: Excuse me. May I ask you a question?

G 5: Yes, sure.

C: It is very interesting for me. What is a well-known symbol of St. Petersburg?

G 5: Oh, it is the spire crowned with the figure of a flying angel.

C: Thanks a lot.

G 6: And now my friends, we are coming to the Cathedral of the Resurrection (Рисунок 6). It is well seen from Nevsky prospect.

Stylized in the spirit of whimsically decorated early Russian architecture, it is especially reminiscent of the Cathedral of St. Basil in Moscow. The stylizing “Russian trend” prominent in the late nineteenth century correspondent to the policy in the field of architecture carried out by the Russian Emperors Alexander III. The Cathedral of the Resurrection is an eloquent example of the Russian style. The memorial cathedral, despite its tragic role – to preserve the memory of the murdered Emperor, has a rather festive look. The twenty plaques fixed on the basement bear carved inscriptions of the major events and decrees associated with the rule of Alexander II.

G 2: Dear guests! Our tour has finished. I hope that you have enjoyed our tour of St. Petersburg. Thank you and good buy.

TEACHER: Did you enjoy our excursion? What places of interest in St. Petersburg do you like best? Have you filled in the blanks in the quiz? If you haven` t, do it now, please.

TEACHER: Your homework for the next lesson is to write your opinion about St. Petersburg. It can be a letter to your friend or an article for a newspaper.

You have worked very well today. Thank you. Goodbye.

THE KEYS:

1. A
2. B
3. C
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. A
8. A