Цели:
- Ознакомление обучающихся с историей возникновения пабов в Великобритании, национальными особенностями.
- Ознакомление обучающихся с творчеством британских поэтов, драматургов, музыкантов.
- Pазвитие творческих способностей обучающихся.
Оформление: гербы на стенах, плакаты с надписями “OPEN”, “CLOSE”, “BE POLITE” пословицы, меню, дартс, объявление. “The pubs know a lot, almost as much as the churches. They’ve got a tradition”. Joyce Cary.
Ход урока
Teacher: Dear guests! We are happy to see you in our pub “The Red Lion”. Pubs are an important part of British life. Now we are ready to tell you all about pubs.
Pupil 1: The word “pub” is short for “public house”. There are thousands in Britain. A small town of, say, 50000 inhabitants will have between 50 and 100 pubs, each with its own character.
Pupil 2: A bright introduction to any self-respecting pub is the sign outside it. The sight might hang from a wrought-iron bracket, or be mounted on a post, or to be fixed to the wall above the door.
Pupil 1: There is a good deal of folklore behind the names which pubs have. The derivation of some names is obvious; often animals figure in the title (The Fox and Goose); often an element of history enters with the name of a local noble family (The Tatton Arms).
Pupil 2: As for “The Beetle and Wedge”, this has its roots in craftsmanship of an earlier day, when wood was split by inserting a wedge into a log and hitting it with a hammer, or “beetle”.
Pupil 1: A pub near Ambleside is called “The Drunken Duck” for a very strange reason. One day the ducks of this hostelry (which was also a farm) drank some spirit, which had leaked from a barrel, whereupon they fell into a stupor. The good wife, thinking them dead, plucked them, and was about to cook them when she observed signs of life- one of the plucked birds was wandering drunkenly round the yard.
Pupil 1: Jokes, too, abound. A late-night traveller knocked at the door of the “George and Dragon”. From an upstairs window a female head appeared, and in vigorous terms told him that all sane folk were already in bed by that hour, and what was he doing making all that noise in the middle of the night? The traveller looked at the inn-sign and said, “Could I speak to George, please?”
Pupil 2: The streets were filled with “Blue Boars”, “Black Swans”, “Flying Pigs”, “Hogs in Armour”, “The White rose”, “The Bull’s Head”, “The Captain Flint, “The Discovery”.
Pupil 1: The oldest pub in England is usually reckoned to be “The Trip to Jerusalem” in Nottingham, situated in a recess carved out of the hill under the Castle.
Pupil 2: The pub signs for which British pubs are famous used to be both functional and decorative because they were beautiful and pleasant to look at. Obviously, they have lost functional and pleasant meaning nowadays. They have become another quaint British anachronism.
Pupil 1: In former times the majority of drinkers were illiterate and the pub signs were the only means for them to distinguish between rival pubs. In the fourteenth century Richard II introduced a law forcing landlords to display a sign and British sign painters and ordered modern illuminated signs in plastic and neon. Their customers, however, did not fancy them and threatened to go some place else for their daily pint. Soon the old signs were back. There were probably more pictorial pub signs in Britain now than there have ever been.
Pupil 2: There are two important peculiarities about pubs. One is that they have strictly limited hours of opening. Until 1988 pubs were only allowed to be open from 12.00 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. and from 6.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m.
The laws, which say when alcoholic drink can be sold in a public place, are called the licensing laws. Even though the law was changed so that alcohol can now be sold all day, many pubs still only open at lunchtime and in the evening.
When it is nearly time for the pub to close, the landlord or landlady shouts last orders (=buy your last drinks) and then no more drinks will be served and people should now finish their drinks and leave the pub.
Pupil 1: The second peculiarity is that most pubs are divided into two separated bars: the public bar and the saloon bar.
The public bar is usually plainly furnished and often has a pool table and a dartboard. It is the bar usually used by locals (=people, especially men, from nearby who use the pub regularly). The saloon bar is comfortable and well furnished and is the bar that is usually used by men and women drinking together.
Pupil 2: For company and conversation the English people go to the pub. You go to a café for a meal or for quick cup of tea, but not to sit and watch the world go by. When you want to relax after a day’s work, you go to the local public house.
Pupil 1: Everybody can go there, except children, who are not allowed in. if you go up to the bar, you may find every kind of person: doctors, writers, singers, schoolmasters and workmen.
Pupil 2: Somebody is coming. Do you know this man? It seems to me he is a writer.
Pupil 1: The name of William Shakespeare is known all over the world. People often call Shakespeare “Our National Bard”, “The Immortal Poet of nature” or “The Great Unknown”.
Pupil 2: William Shakespeare was born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. His father, John Shakespeare, was a dealer in corn, meat, and wool. William’s mother, Mary Arden, was the daughter of a rich farmer in the village of Wilmcote. In 1567 Shakespeare went to work to London, there he began writing plays staged at the globe Theatre. He wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and poems.
Pupil 1: I like his play “Romeo and Juliet”. Do you want to see?
(Обучающиеся показывают фрагмент из пьесы «Ромео и Джульетта» на балконе).
Pupil 2: Most pubs, in fact, have a piano and on Saturday night the customers may gather round it and sing. The songs they sing are the same all over England: sentimental and sad songs.
Pupil: The people who want to sing ask someone to play the tunes on the old piano. The group themselves round it and they buy drinks for the pianist. That is the custom.
(Обучающиеся играют на пианино и поют песню “Auld Lang Syne”).
Pupil 1: It’s a Scottish song and it is often sung at parties or meetings of friends all over the world. The author of this song is Robert Burns.
Pupil 2: Robert Burns, Scottish poet and writer of traditional Scottish folk songs, was born in Alloway on the 25th of January, 1759. He was the eldest of seven children. Burns spent his youth in hard work and poverty. He began writing poetry at the age of fifteen, but he was 27 when his first book was published. R Burns wrote hundreds of songs and poems, his poems about country life, love and national pride are very famous.
Pupil 1: Every year on January 25 Burns Night is celebrated not only in Scotland but throughout Britain and Scottish-speaking world.
Pupil 2: Somebody else is coming in our pub. Who is it?
Pupil 1: George Gordon Byron – an English writer of romantic and satirical poetry. Perhaps he is writing his best-known poem “Chide Harold’s pilgrimage” now.
(Обучающийся в роли Байрона читает стихотворение “Adieu, adieu!...).
Pupil 2: Good humor and good temper give English pubs their character. If you go there regularly the landlord will try to get to know you. He will remember what you usually drink and may well become a personal friend.
Pupil 1: The pub is the place where you meet people. You get to know “regulars”. You talk about your family life, life of famous people, about your favourite actors, singers, sportsmen.
Pupil 2: I think these people fans of my favourite group.
Pupil 1: Do I know this group?
Pupil 2: Yes, of course. The name of my favourite group is Beatles. It is one of the most popular pop groups, first performing in 1959 in Liverpool. The group included John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Star. Their beautiful songs are popular all over the world.
Pupil 1: Do we have a chance to listen to their songs?
Pupil 2: Certainly. In our pub it is possible.
(Звучат песни из репертуара группы «Биттлз»).
Pupil 2: The pub is the only place where men may meet each other after work. It is surprising, but even in large cities each public house has its own regular customers, who go there every night to drink one or two pints, slowly, and to have a game of dominoes or to play darts.
Pupil 1: Darts is a traditional game, and it developed from archery, which much encouraged for military reasons during the Middle Ages. A set of three darts is used and each player throws them in turn. Expert players usually have their own private set of darts, but pubs always provide a set for occasional performers. Style is a matter for the individual; but you must have a good eye and steady hand – not always easy in a pub.
Pupil 2: Do you want to play darts?
(Игра в дартс).
Pupil 1: We want to relax and taste our dishes – traditional English dishes, drinks.
(Официанты выносят все приготовленные кушанья и расставляют по столам. Звучат песни).
Teacher: We were glad to have met you. Thank you for coming. Come and see us again.
Литература
- Английский язык «Первое сентября». – № 10, 2002.
- Томахин Г. Д. Дом англичанина – его крепость. – М. : Просвещение, 2002.
- Химунина Т. Н., Конон Н. В., Уолш И. А. В Великобритании принято так. – М. : Просвещение, 1984.