Цели и задачи урока: поддержание интереса к культуре Канады; расширение кругозора учащихся; развитие познавательных интересов, внимания, слуховой памяти, фонематического слуха, языковой догадки, произносительных навыков; отработка навыков монологической речи; повторение числительных; активизация словаря.
Оснащение урока: учебник Opportunities, аудиоприложение к учебнику, флаг Канады, карта мира, аудиозапись гимна Канады, раздаточный материал – “Information files”, доска.
Ход урока
На доске размещены флаг Канады – <Рисунок 1>, карта мира; подготовлена аудиозапись гимна Канады.
I. The starting point of the lesson.
Good morning, children! I’m glad to see you, take your seats.
Dear boys and girls, do you like sport games?
Which sport games do you like?
Do you like to play or to watch it on TV?
Does anyone of you like hockey?
Do you know the name of the famous Kazan hockey team?
Do you know the mother country of hockey?
II. Presentation and initial consolidation of a new theme.
Today in our culture corner we are going to speak about Canada.
What do you know and what can you say about Canada?
For example, look at the map and say where it is situated. <Рисунок 2>
III. Listening.
Now I want you to listen to the national anthem of Canada. <Приложение 1>
IV. Reading.
Open your books at page 19. Here you see a list, but with some gaps. Now we are going to read the information and then we will listen to the recording and complete it.
Let’s read it and translate.
V. Listening.
Now listen to a quiz and complete the information.
Включается аудиоприложение (диск) к учебнику.
Do you need to listen to it once again?
Let’s check what you have written:
Capital city: Ottawa.
Area: 9,976,169 sq km.
Population: 32 million.
Official languages: English and French.
National symbol: The maple leaf.
Political structure: A constitutional monarchy. The head of State is the king or queen of the UK.
Society: Number one on the UN ‘Human Development Index’ and practically advanced in health and education.
Environment: 4 million sq km of forests; nearly a million sq km of rivers and lakes. Longest river: Mackenzie River, 4200 km long.
Highest mountain: Mount Logan, nearly 6000 metres high.
VI. Reading.
I have some more information about Canada. Take these sheets of paper, one for two. Let’s read it aloud and translate. <Приложение 2>
На доске учащимся представлен перевод некоторых слов:
Supply – запас,
Moderate – умеренный,
Easter Monday – Пасхальный понедельник,
Victoria Day – День Виктории – понедельник, предшествующий 25 мая,
Labor Day – день труда.
VII. Speaking.
Look at the pictures in your books and answer the questions from exercise #2.
1) Would you like to go to Canada?
Why would you like to go there?
2) Where would you like to go in Canada?
Have you ever heard about Ottawa, Toronto, Sydney?
3) Why do you think Canada might be a good place to live?
You see, that the environment of Canada is very beautiful. There are millions square kilometers of forests, rivers, lakes and mountains. And it is similar to the environment of Russia.
VIII. Listening.
Look at exercise 3. Here you need to listen to the biography of the explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, and put these events in the right order.
Включается аудиоприложение (диск) к учебнику.
Let’s check it.
1 – d. Alexander Mackenzie went to America when he was ten.
2 – h. He worked for a company that traded in furs.
3 – b. In his first expedition, he travelled down a river by canoe.
4 – e. They got to the ocean but it was the Arctic – the wrong one!
5 – a. He went back to Britain to study astronomy and geography.
6 – f. In his second expedition, he went west to the Rockies.
7 – c. There his men wanted to turn back but he persuaded them to go on.
8 – g. The expedition finally reached the Pacific Ocean.
Exercise 4. You will listen to the biography once again and need to write some notes about:
- Mackenzie’s family,
- The importance of his second expedition,
- His personality (features of his character),
- His attitude to Native Americans.
Then I’ll ask you.
IX. Home task.
Your homework will be to chose one of the travelers or explorers from Russia and to speak about him: where he was born, his family life, what places he went to, what he did, when and where he died and his importance.
Thank you for your work. The lesson is over. Goodbye!