Цели и задачи:
- Введение лексического материала по теме “Outstanding people”
- Обучение чтению с различной стратегией (формирование навыка чтения с извлечением необходимой информации из невербальных источников, прогнозирование содержания текста из названия и иллюстраций)
- Развитие навыков чтения, устной речи по теме “Outstanding people”
- Развитие познавательного интереса, обучение работе в сотрудничестве,
- Расширение кругозора учащихся.
Ход урока
Hello! I’m very glad to see you.
What is the date today?
What is the day today?
Who is absent?
Today our topic is “Outstanding people”.
What does it mean?
What people can we call “outstanding”?
Please, name some famous people you know.
(Раздать текст “Mozart”).
Look at this text. I give you a minute.
MOZART
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the greatest composers ever born.
In every form, from serenade to fugue, from piano concerto and symphony to the heights of grand opera, his music amazes, enchants and invades the memory. Thousands of books have been written about Mozart. Few lives have ever been so well documented as his, and yet he is one of the most mysterious figures in the world.
Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He began playing the piano at 4, and when he was 5 years old, he already composed serious music. His father took him on tours of Western Europe and Italy and the boy was always a success. The genius conquered Vienna and the world. Mozart's fame was great. But then he suddenly fell from favour.
The Vienna aristocracy grew tired of him. He lost pupils and contracts, had to move from his comfortable house in the centre to a modest flat in the suburbs. The genius was forgotten…Mozart died in 1791, when he was only 35 years old. There's a legend that Mozart was poisoned by his rival composer Antonio Salieri.
Not long ago a 150-volume edition of Mozart’s. His works include 41 symphonies, nearly 30 piano concertos, 19 operas, a vast quantity of orchestral and other instrumental music, and volumes of church music (he wrote it mostly for financial reasons). His most famous operas are Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro.
(спросить через минуту)
What is this text about?
Why do you think so?
This strategy of reading is skimming.
If you want to know what this text is about (only topic) you should use skimming.
Please look through the text again and answer the questions.
Questions:
- Is Mozart’s life well documented?
- When did he begin playing the piano?
- How old was he when he began composing serious music?
- Was Mozart’s fame long?
- What kind of music did he write?
Check the answers.
When you were looking for answers in the text you used scanning.
Scanning is the second strategy of reading.
OK. Let’s read this text attentively and translate each sentence. (после перевода)
This strategy of reading is reading for details. It means reading with full understanding. (собрать тексты)
Look at the blackboard, please. There are four pictures.
What reading strategies should these people use?
1. I'm not sure this book is very interesting? What is it about?
(He should use skimming).
2. I don’t know the meaning of this word. I’m looking for it in a dictionary.
(She should use scanning).
I want to make an apple pie. I’m looking for a recipe.
(She should use scanning).
3. I want to know more about the Netherlands.
(He should use reading for details).
Check the answers.
(раздать карточки).
I gave you some cards with questions. Look at them. Questions are the same on each
card.
But the texts will be different.
Now I need three groups.
(разделить класс на 3 группы).
These are biographies of some famous people.
(раздать тексты биографий).
Text №1 is for the first group. It’s about Isaac Newton.
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was one of the most important scientists who ever lived. He was born on 25 December, 1642, in Woolsthorpe. His father died before Newton was born and his mother remarried. Newton went to live with his grandmother. He went to a grammar school, where he wasn't a very good pupil. Luckily one of the teachers spotted that he had a bright mind and recommended that he go to university. So Newton went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was going to study law. One day he went to a fair and bought a book on mathematics. Newton hadn't read any books on mathematics and physics before and got very interested in these subjects. Soon he became one of the best students in the university. He spent most of his life in Cambridge.
Newton became a world-famous physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher. He took
facts and mathematical theories and explained them. He formulated laws of universal
gravitation and motion that explain how objects move on the Earth and in the sky. He made
discoveries in optics and
built the first reflecting telescope. He invented an area of mathematics called calculus
and wrote a lot of books.
Text №2 is for the second group. It’s about Florence Nightingale.
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale got her name from the city of Florence. At that time women didn't work. They served tea and gave parties. Florence didn't like this lifestyle. She was interested in books and medicine and wanted to go to university. At first her family was against it, but after many emotional battles her father agreed. She got a good education in Germany and started to work in a hospital when she came back to England.
March 1854 brought the start of the Crimean War when Britain, France and Turkey declared war on Russia. Florence Nightingale left England and became a nursing administrator of the English General Hospitals in Turkey. She took 38 other nurses with her. Together they went to battlefields and organized hospitals. The wounded soldiers called her an angel because at night she went from one bed to another with a lamp.
Florence Nightingale has stayed in history as "the Lady with the Lamp", the first professional nurse who saved thousands of lives.
Text №3 is for the third group. It’s about Charlie Chaplin.
Charlie Chaplin
Charles Spencer Chaplin didn't have a very happy childhood. He was born in London, England, on 16. April 1889.
When his father left the family, Chaplin's mother didn't work, and her two sons were often hungry. When their mother got ill, Chaplin and his brother went to the workhouse, which was the place for orphans. Life there was very hard, but Chaplin didn't give up.
He started his career as an actor when he was nine. When he was twenty-one, he joined a travelling music-hall company. Soon after he went to America and became the famous film star, Charlie Chaplin. The actor died in 1977 but we still remember his "Little Tramp", a funny little man in baggy trousers and a small bowler hat.
Card with questions:
- Which country was he/she born in?
- What was his/her childhood like?
- What education did he/she get?
- What is he/she famous for?
- Can we say that he/she is an outstanding person? Why?
Мониторинг работы в группе.
(Собрать работы).
Listen for your homework. Answer these questions with another text.
You should exchange texts: the 1st group gives their texts (Isaac Newton) to the 2nd group; the 2nd group gives their texts (Florence Nightingale) to the 3rd group; and the 3rd group gives their texts (Charlie Chaplin) to the 1st group.
You can take the texts and the cards home.
(Подведение итогов урока).
So, our lesson is going to the end.
Finish the sentences about the lesson:
- The topic of the lesson was…
- It was interesting to get to know/to do…
- Now after the lesson I can…
- This is the first time (I have done smth)…
- The most enjoyable task was…
- The most difficult task was…
- The most boring task was…
Please tell me the names of the famous people we were talking about.
Then tell me, what reading strategies do you know now?
And what reading strategy will help you with your homework?
(Объявление оценок за работу на уроке).
OK. Good bye! See you tomorrow.