Урок английского языка в 6-м классе по теме "Limericks"

• учебные: формирование и совершенствование фонетических и лексических навыков по теме; развитие умения осмысленного чтения;
• развивающие: развитие мышления учащихся – умение сравнивать, находить сходство и различие, обобщать; развитие навыков рефлексивной деятельности;
• воспитательные: привитие уважения к культуре страны изучаемого языка, расширение знаний о британской литературе.

• учебник “Happy English.ru” 6 класс (авторы Кауфман К., Кауфман М.);
• презентация PowerPoint “Limericks”(Приложение 1);
• карточки с текстами лимериков (Приложение 2).

Hello, dear friends! I am glad to see you. And what about you? – Ss: I am glad to see you too.

Today we will travel to the world of the English poetry. Let’s start.

Listen to the verse (слайд 2)
There was a young lady of Niger,
Who smiled when she rode on a tiger;
They returned from the ride,
With the lady inside,
And a smile on the face of the tiger.
Read the verse aloud.

Answer my questions: What kind of poetry is it? What do you know about it? (Скорее всего, учащиеся не готовы ответить на эти вопросы, поэтому далее следуют пояснения учителя).

Teacher: This kind of poetry is called a limerick. It is a short funny poem. Read the translation of this limerick written by Marshak: (слайд 3)

Улыбались три смелых девицы
На спине у бенгальской тигрицы.
Теперь же все три –
У тигрицы внутри,
А улыбка – на морде тигрицы.

Read limericks and try to answer the question: What kind of poetry it is? (учащимся раздаются карточки с лимериками Приложение 2, по очереди зачитывают стихи).

Teacher: Как вы думаете, в этих стихах есть что-то общее? Чем они похожи? (количество строк, бессмыслица, рифма…)

So, what is a limerick? Complete the mind-map. (Слайд 4)

Teacher: Read the text and be ready to answer my questions.

A lot of English poets and writers wrote comic and curious verses named ‘limericks’. Whenever something funny or unusual happens, someone somewhere in the world comes up with a funny verse about it. In Britain it is a verse named a ‘limerick’ or ‘nonsense verse’. Limericks are known as poetry for the common man (as well as chastushkas in Russia). The origin of limericks is traditionally connected with the Irish town of Limerick. People sang them at table during parties. All those songs finished with the invitation to visit Limerick!

The most famous author of limericks is Edward Lear. Edward Lear was a famous English poet. He made limericks popular in the 19^th century. He never called his poems limericks, but ‘poems of nonsense’.

In 1846 he published his first “Book of Nonsense”. In this book you’ll find limericks filled with crazy fantasy. In Lear’s book there were 72 limericks with his own illustrations.

Teacher: Answer the questions: What kind of a verse is a limerick? (funny, humorous, unusual) What comic verses in Russian do you know? (chastushkas) Who is the most famous writer of limericks? (Edward Lear) How did he call his limericks? (poems of nonsense) – слайды 5-12.

V. Activity 3. Задания к лимерикам. (С использованием презентации – слайды 13, 14, 15).

1. Read the limerick and put the lines in the correct order. (Ученики пишут свои варианты в тетрадях, затем зачитывают).

That my nose is too long,
Who said, 'If you choose to suppose,
That remarkable Man with a nose.

There was an Old Man with a nose,
You are certainly wrong!'

There was an Old Man with a nose,
Who said, 'If you choose to suppose,
That my nose is too long,
You are certainly wrong!'

That remarkable Man with a nose.

2. Try to complete the limericks – fill in the necessary words.

There was a Young ______ whose bonnet,
Came untied when the _____sat upon it;
But she said: 'I don't care!
All the birds in the ___
Are welcome to _____ on my bonnet!'

There was a Young lady whose bonnet,
Came untied when the birds sat upon it;
But she said: 'I don't care!
All the birds in the air
Are welcome to sit on my bonnet!'

There was an Old Man of the East,
Who gave all his children a feast;
But they all ate so much,
And their conduct was such
That it killed that old man of the East.

VI. Activity 4. Синквейн

Teacher: Now you’ll try to sum up everything you know about limericks in another unusual verse which is called ‘cinquain. The rules of writing a cinquain: (слайд 16)

1. В первой строчке тема называется одним словом (существительным).
2. Вторая строчка-это описание темы в двух словах (два прилагательных).
3. Третья строка-описание действия в рамках темы тремя глаголами.
4. Четвертая – это фраза из четырех слов, показывающая отношение к теме.
5. Синоним из одного слова, который повторят суть темы.

Учащиеся зачитывают свои синквейны.

VII. Summing up.

You’ve worked very well today. At home you can learn any limerick you like by heart. Thank you for the lesson.

Использованная литература:

1. Учебник “Happy English.ru” 6 класс (авторы Кауфман К., Кауфман М.)
2. Методическая мозаика – приложение к журналу “Иностранные языки в школе” № 1, 2009 г.
3. http://www.ipiran.ru (лимерики Э. Лира с рисунками)