Тема урока:

1) тема устной речи «Science and Technology»;
2) текст для чтения “ By the Light of the Moon”.

Коммуникативно-практические цели и задачи:

• обобщить изученный материал по разделу “ Science and Technology ”.
• развивать умения в монологической речи и  аудировании  коротких текстов по теме;
• совершенствовать умения в чтении текста с общим охватом содержания;
• развивать лексические навыки;
• развивать грамматические навыки.

Развивающие задачи:

• развивать умение вести беседу по заданной теме;
• развивать языковую догадку (контекстуальная догадка) и навыки прогнозирования.

Воспитательно-образовательные задачи:

• пробудить интерес к работе общественных международных организаций;
• воспитать любознательность.

Языковой материал: 

для повторения:
лексический – слова и выражения по теме «Science»

Оборудование урока:

• мультимедийный проектор; компьютер;
• аудиозапись.
• прагматический материал (объявления, символика организации);

Раздаточный материал:  рабочие тетради.

ХОД УРОКА

I. Подготовка учащихся к учебной деятельности.

Задачи:

• ввести в атмосферу иноязычного общения, установить речевой  и эмоциональный контакт со всей группой учащихся;
• сообщить учащимся задачи и порядок работы на уроке.

The Secretary of the Royal London scientific society (Приложение 1, слайд 1)

T.: Ladies & gentlemen! I would like to welcome you at the Royal London scientific society meeting. Our scientific society is one of the oldest & famous in the world. That’s why we are done the honour to define the outstanding discoveries of the world. Our experts should consider what discovery is of great significance.

II. Речевая зарядка

Задачи:

• активизировать употребление  лексического материала, введенного на предыдущих уроках;
• пробудить интерес учащихся к теме урока.

T.: To begin with, let’s look at the screen. Try to explain the proverbs.  You should be convincing.
(Приложение 1, слайд 2)
“Experience is the mother of wisdom”. “Necessity is the mother of the invention”
Well, thank you for your interpretation. Yes, you were right, speaking about the inventions and explaining the reasons why they appeared. New inventions always change the people’s ways of living.

Just imagine the amount of inventions of the world. Time which we live in is unusual. It is 2009 now. It’s the beginning of the XXIst century and the 3rd millennium. We don’t know what we’ll have in a future, but I hope it will be beautiful and interesting. They say we can’t have a great future if we don’t realize the past. Our meeting is devoted to the most important scientific  inventions.. You know we were  given a very difficult task – to create the book. Its name is “Great Discoveries of the world”. (Приложение 1, слайды 3, 4)
We have already filled some pages of this fascinating and exciting book. But we are  having highly respected  guests today – they are journalists from famous newspapers and magazines. It’s high time to make a historical reference on the question for them. To understand the problem better let’s turn to our experts. They have prepared for us very useful information.

III. Развитие умений в аудировании текста

Основные  цели  и  сопутствующие  задачи:

• научить учащихся  извлекать  смысловую информацию  текста;
• тренировать в интерпретации смысловой информации  текста (обобщать, делать выводы);
• проверить   понимание  воспринятой   информации.

T.: First of all you should listen to some texts and then fill in the missing information. There are five columns in it. Be attentive, Press is waiting for our Revue. (Текст для аудирования взят из рабочей тетради к учебнику Афанасьевой – VIII. Материал можно оформить как интерактивный плакат.)
Let’s thank our experts for exhaustive explanation, I think it was difficult for them to choose information – the world is full of mysteries.  I would like some of you to summarize the facts mentioned above. You may use your notes from the table. (Приложение 2, ex.1)

IV . Развитие речевых навыков

Основные цели и сопутствующие задачи:

• научить учащихся высказываться по ситуации на уровне 2 – 3 предложений;
• научить элементам монолога-рассуждения.

T.: Ladies & gentlemen! You are welcome to ask questions. Remember, scientists are very polite people though sometimes they are very absent – minded. So use courteous words and word combinations (на столах у учащихся визитные карточки с названиями английских газет).

Примерный вариант высказываний учащихся:

1) “Daily Telegraph” newspaper. Could you tell us what exactly …  discovered?
2) “What’s New In the World?” magazine.  Could you tell us about …
3) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. I should be interested to know how  … are connected with each other?
4) “Science and Technology”  magazine  Could you tell me, what the importance of  … discovery was
6)  “Washington Post” I’d like to ask you a question.
7)  “Good Morning newspaper” What are your achievements in this field of science?
8) Notes and Records of the Royal Society Well, I’m interested in…
9)  “Inventions In Science” magazine There is some information about investigations in physics. Could you tell us about them?
10) “Today” newspaper. My question deals with a phenomenon

T.: Thank you, now I want to know how well you are informed about the topic of our today’s conversations.

V. Совершенствование речевых навыков (диалогическая форма).

Основные цели и сопутствующие задачи: тренировать учащихся в ведении  диалога по заданным ситуациям общения.

T.: While we are busy (учитель слушает краткие монологические высказывания учащихся на основе прочитанного), I would like some of you to give an interview for a famous scientific journal. (Biology Letters is one of our seven, high quality peer-reviewed journals covering: biological and physical sciences). The editorial staff is very interested in problems of cloning. I think you’ll be able to answer all their questions.
Thank you, I see you are  masters of  our subject. But now let’s listen to the conversation, its topic is very exciting. You should write down the key sentences of it for our Press – center.

Возможный ход диалога:

Journalist: Our readers are very interested in problems of cloning. What is your attitude toward this aspect of science?
Expert:  Cloning animals opens exciting medical possibilities.  Many people are in need of tissues  and organs for transplantation. But it isn’t easy to get such organs as, for example, heart, liver or kidneys. Cloning can solve this problem.
Journalist: It sounds very convincing. But is it the only application of cloning?
Expert:  Oh, no! Many animals are on the brink of extinction. Cloning can be used to preserve them. Besides, Scientists can create animals which produce more milk, meat and wool, or animals which don’t catch certain diseases. This can save the lives of starving people.
Journalist: Oh, I see. It might help to decide the problems of Poverty. But people all over the world are worried about the moral side of the problem. Would you mind explaining your opinion.
Expert:  Cloning is a controversial issue. Some people are ready to eat cloned fruits and vegetables, but many people are against cloning animals. They think it is morally unacceptable. The question of human cloning is even more controversial.
Journalist: What are the most complicated questions in this field of science?
Expert:  Suppose we cloned a man. Are we really sure he will be a man? Who will be responsible for him? Who will bring him up? Will he be happy? Will he have the same rights as we have?
Journalist: I can add one more.  What would happen if a dictator, someone like Hitler, cloned himself? Would we be able to survive?
Expert:  But nevertheless, the idea of human cloning seems very exciting.
Teacher: You should write down the key sentences of it for our Press – center.

Возможный вариант:

1. Some medical problems could be solved.
2. Mankind could have the opportunity to live a longer life.
3. Mankind could solve the problem of feeding starving people.
4. But cloning is a controversial issue: there are some moral aspects in the problem.

VI. Активизация лексико-грамматических  навыков

Основные задачи:

• сформировать продуктивные лексико-грамматические навыки по теме;
• практиковать в выполнении упражнений в формате ЕГЭ.

T.: You know one of the active areas of our Royal Society is  to increase public interest in science. Activities include public lectures. We have just received the one from Dr James Wilsdon, Director of Science Policy. But there is something wrong with it, I would like you to make it complete with the help of the derivatives that are formed from the words written on the right. (Приложение 2, ex.2)
T.: Let’s check. Look at the screen (Приложение 1, слайд 5)

VII. Развитие речевых навыков

Основные цели и сопутствующие задачи:

• научить учащихся высказываться по ситуации на уровне 2-3 предложений;
• развивать контекстуальную догадку

T.: Well done, the pages devoted to these  discoveries and inventions are very interesting, but we are having some blank spots in our book – let’s speak about Space. What  are we going to discuss? (Возможные ответы детей).
T.: Let’s check our ideas. Look at the screen (Приложение 1, слайд 6)
What do you know about space? Can we say that space exploration is the main part of science?

VIII. Активизация лексических навыков

Основные задачи:

• сформировать продуктивные лексические навыки по теме;
• научить учащихся употреблять изученный языковой материал в тренировочных упражнениях.

I would like to make sure you don’t forget words and word combination on the topic.

1. Match the combinations of words: (Приложение 2, ex. 3)

2.  T.: Our secretary is preparing an annual lecture for the Meeting. He wants it to sound in a right way. Let’s help him to remember some “space combinations”.  The words in the box often come after “space”. Find combinations that refer to: (Приложение 2, ex. 4).  

T.: Let’s check your answers. (Приложение 1, слайд 7)

 IX. Обучение изучающему чтению

Основные цели и сопутствующие задачи:

• научить учащихся глубокому восприятию смысловой информации текста;
• тренировать учащихся в нахождении ключевых предложений, смысловых вех текста;
• научить учащихся находить определенную информацию в тексте и проверять ее разными способами;

T.: We should  edit an article for our scientific journal. Read the text and choose the most suitable heading for each para­graph. There is one extra heading which you do not need to use. (Приложение 2, ex. 5)

T.: Look at the screen and check your answers (Приложение 1, слайд 8)

X. Активизация грамматических навыков

Основные задачи:

• сформировать продуктивные грамматические  навыки по теме «Условные предложения»;
• научить учащихся употреблять изученный языковой материал в тренировочных упражнениях.

Look at the blackboard, please. (Приложение 1, слайд 9) Albert Einstein  said  “Imagination is more important than knowledge, for imagination embraces the world.” It’s difficult to argue with Famous. Here are some of the urgent problems scientific minds are working at.
I would like you to use your imagination and complete these sentences using the Subjunctive Mood and add your own sentences, combinations of words from your workbook can help you (Приложение 2, ex. 6).

XI. Развитие навыков письменной речи

Основные задачи:

• сформировать продуктивные навыки письменной речи, познакомить со стилистическими навыками написания новостного обзора;
• практиковать учащихся в выполнении заданий в формате ЕГЭ.

You see the topic we ARE DISCUSSING IS VERY IMPORTANT. That’s why there are a lot of correspondents of different newspapers and scientific journals here. We should be ready for the press conference. You are to write some news reports. Let’s remember the structure of it:

The aim – to write about current events which are of interest to the public
Style – formal. (You should present facts accurately).

Plan:

• Short catchy title.
• Introduction. (What happened? Why? When and where did it happen?
• Main Body (What exactly happened? Were there any casualties?
• Conclusion (What comments can you write?)

(Приложение 1, слайд 10)

XII. Заключительный этап урока. Подведение итогов. Рефлексия

Задачи:

• подвести итоги урока;
• cнять возможные трудности в выполнении домашнего задания;
• практиковать в выражении собственного отношения к услышанному.

You are taking part at the Royal London scientific society meeting   it is considered by most to be the oldest such society still in existence , I would like you to  write the News report, share   your impressions.
So, let’s come to conclusion. We have just discussed some of the most important and thrilling inventions in the world. Our book is almost ready. But it has some blank  page.  Can  you guess who is this page devoted to? Look at the Motto of our today’s lesson – “Man is still the most extraordinary thing of all”. (Приложение 1, слайд 11).  Of course, Man is the most extraordinary thing of all. The future of the world is in his hands, the Future is in your hands: Dream, Create, Act, but don’t forget to listen to your hearts. Remember, only kind hearts are able to move the Progress.
Well, I think our time is up. Thank you for your work and attention. I hope you are quite satisfied with the Meeting. . Our conference is over.