Разработка урока факультативного курса "My native city" (Иркутск) для 9-го класса

Цель: Познакомить учащихся с историей родного города (Иркуска) со дня основания.

Задачи урока:

Воспитательный компонент: способствовать воспитанию у учащихся уважительного отношения к истории родного города и чувства гордости за свой родной город.

Образовательный компонент: чтение с извлечением подробной информации и расширение словарного запаса учащихся по теме.

Развивающий компонент: совершенствование навыков перевода и чтения незнакомого текста.

• Мультимедийный проектор и презентация в PowerPoint.
• Аудиозапись песни в исполнении А.Маршала “Иркутская история”.
• Англо-русские словари на столах.
• Карта Иркутской области.

– Look at this map. How do you think, what’s this?

(Yes, this is Irkutsk, the capital of Siberia. Irkutsk is our native town.)

– And now look at this map. How do you think what’s this?

(Yes, this is an old map of our region. And the 1-st lesson of our course is the History

of Irkutsk. We will read about the History of Irkutsk.

2. Pre-reading:

Now say me, please,

1. Do you know that a lot of facts mysteriously got entangled in Irkutsk?
2. What are the famous people who influenced the development of the city?
3. Have you heard that foreign visitors call it the “St. Petersburg of Siberia”? Give some facts to prove it.
4. Do you know any historical places of Irkutsk? Name some of them.

Match the words to their meaning. (см. Приложение: слайд 2)

What words do you need to speak about history?(см. слайд 3)

The HISTORY of IRKUTSK

In 1661 a wooden “ostrog” –was built at the mouth of the Irkut by order of the Yenisei lands Ivan Ivanovich Rzhevsky. The “ostrog” was named Irkutsky.

The area of the first town of Irkutsk covered only 303 square metres and the population of the first ostrog consisted of 20 Cossaks. It was situated on the cross roads of the trading routes leading to Mongolia and China. Due to the geographical position Irkutsk grew very quickly. The city was founded on the confluence of the 2 rovers: the Angara and the Irkut. And the settlement was named after the river Irkut which mean speedy, fast flowing.

“1725 Irkutsk became the capital of Eastern Siberia.

It was a big trading centre and in 1686 it was given the status of the City. In 1690 Irkutsk was given the coat of arms which depicts two animals: one of them is an animal relative to a tiger and it’s called “babr”, another one is a sable. These animals are symbolic for the power and wealth of Siberia”.[2]

For 300 years the development of the town was closely connected with mastering the severe lands of Siberia. Numerous villages and settlements on the banks of the Angara, the Irkut, the Ushakovka, Lake Baikal and along the highways and smaller roads largely determined the building of the city.

Irkutsk was built in the middle of the great historic route across Asia from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean.

Tradespeople, peasant and soldiers passed through the town. Its geographic position was very convenient for diplomatic links between East and West as well as for the administration of Siberia.

In the second half of the 17-th century the small settlement on the bank of the Angara developed into a large regional trade centre, and into one of the early centres of Russian culture on the East. The first school of Mongolian, Russian and Slavonic languages, and later of Japanese, was founded there in 1725 at Vosnesensky Monastery.

A quarter of a century later, a navigation school was founded.

In the 1760s, an overland passage, the Moscow High Road, was built to Irkutsk.

By the edict of 1764, Irkutsk became the capital of a vast province stretching from the Yenisei to Alaska. It played an important role in the exploration of the Northeeastern coast and islands of the Pacific Ocean.

The life of well-known navigator Grigoriy Ivanovich Shelikhov was connected to Irkutsk.

Shelikhov and other Irkutsk merchants founded the Russian-American Company, which “controlled a vast territory on the American continent and the archipelages lying to the west of it as far as Japan, including the north-western coast of America and California, as far as the lands of independent Indians and Eskimos to the north-east and as far as the Sandwich Islands to the south”.

There, goods for the Russian domains in Alaska and on the Pacific Islands were purchased. This territory, called “Russian America”, was part of the vast provinces of Irkutsk.

For three centuries Irkutsk was mostly a wooden town. This Siberian town was destroyed by fire more than once. The first of 1775 and 1879 were the most devastating. The latter destroyed 75 residential blocks, all commercial and municipal buildings, the library, the archive and unique collection of the museum of the Eastern Siberia Society.

In the 18-th century, the construction of buidings in stone was begun. Building in stone achieved a high point in Irkutsk in the 1870s.

The waves of revolutionary events in central Russia, Poland, Byelorussia reached Siberia with the arrival of political exiles. At various times Irkutsk was the place of exile of Ibragim Cannibal, great-grandfather of the famous poet A.S.Pushkin, the writer A.N. Radishchev, the Decembrisrs S.P.Trubetskoy and S.G. Volkonsky, members of the Petrashevsky Society, Polish rebel. These events had a positive influence on Irkutsk and on its growth of social consciousness among Siberians.

The construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway at the end of the 19-th century speeded up the development of Irkutsk’s contacts with European Russia and infused life into all spheres of the town’s life.

1. In 1661 a wooden … .
2. Irkutsk was built in the middle of … .
3. The small settlement on the bank … .
4. A navigation school … .
5. The first school of Mongolia … .
6. The Moscow High Road … .
7. Irkutsk played an important … .
8. Shelichov founded … .
9. The life of some scientists … .
10. Foreign visitors called … .
11. The fires of 1775,1879 were … .
12. The latter destroyed … .
13. Irkutsk was the place of … .
14. The construction of Trans-Siberian … .

1. It grew from a wooden ostrog.
2. For three hundred years the development of Irkutsk was closely connected with mastering the severe lands of Siberia.
3. Numerous villages and settlements on the banks of the Angara, the Baikal, the Irkut determined the buildings of the city.

Put these events in the right order and say what events influenced the development of Irkutsk?

1. The construction of Railroad speeded up the development of its contacts with European Russia.
2. In the 1769’s an overland passage, the Moscow High Road was built to Irkutsk.
3. The wooden ostrog was built at the mouth of the Irkut in 1661.
4. Irkutsk became the capital of a vast province stretching from the Yenisei to Alaska in 1764.
5. The fires of 1775 and 1879 were the most divesting.
6. The first school of Mongolia, Russian and old Slavonic languages were founded in 1725.

4. Post-reading:

Find out and write reasons thanks to which Irkutsk played an important role in the exploration of the Northeastern coast and the islands of the Pacific Ocean.

Список литературы:

1. Regional studies of Irkutsk and Lake Baikal.(элективный курс) из серии “Проектная деятельность учителей английского языка Иркутской области – неотъемлемое звено в системе непрерывного повышения квалификации”, Британский Совет Irkutsk INSETT 2005,c.7-9,14-15.
2. “My native city”. Программа элективного курса по английскому языку для 9-го класса. Составитель: Арсентьева Н.И.: Иркутск, 2006, с.13.
3. CD “Иркутск”, “Восьмое небо”, 2006.

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