Цели урока:
- активизировать ранее изученные лексические единицы по теме;
- развивать мотивацию к дальнейшему овладению английским языком.
Задачи урока:
- Воспитательная: воспитывать бережное отношение к природе.
- Обучающая: способствовать формированию языковой компетенции обучающихся.
- Развивающая: развивать навыки диалогической, монологической речи, способность работать в коллективе.
Оборудование: ноутбук, презентация к уроку, карточки.
ХОД УРОКА
T: Good morning, friends and our guests! I’m glad to see you. How are you? What’s the date today? Let’s begin our lesson. They say “Beauty Saves the World.” What makes the world beautiful?
P1(s): Animals, birds, flowers, trees, nature, the sky, the sun, the grass, the wind, love.
T: You are right. So, the theme of our lesson is ecology: this fragile planet. “The world is a fine place and worth fighting for”, said Ernest Hemingway. We are going to repeat our active vocabulary, the use of Present Simple Passive Tense, we’ll have a short conference, discuss some environmental problems and try to find their solutions and at the end of the lesson you will be given the home task and we’ll sing a song. Are you ready? Let’s begin. We are going to repeat our active vocabulary. Look at the screen and repeat after me.
an environment, to pollute (pollution), destruction, a shortage, to waste, poison, nuclear power stations, to survive, acid rain, greenhouse effect, ultraviolet radiation, to cause, population, wildlife, natural resources, skin cancer, ozone layer, habitat, dangerous, safe.
Translate all these words. Next task is: I’ll give you cards and you are to fill in the suitable words, then we shall check up. I’ll give you two minutes.
– The country is rich in natural …(resources).
– We need a … .The water is very dirty. (filter)
– Is … radiation dangerous? (ultraviolet)
– … waste endangers people’s lives. (Nuclear)
– Industrial waste can be … for fish living in the seas. (poison)
– It is very good when there is much … in the air. (ozone)
Look at the screen and translate from Russian into English:
– жить в условиях города – to live in a town environment
– решать проблемы окружающей среды – to solve the
environmental problems
– загрязнение водной среды – water pollution
– загрязнение воздуха – air pollution
– разрушение, уничтожение живой природы – destruction
of wildlife
– красота сельского ландшафта – countryside beauty
– нехватка природных ресурсов – shortage of natural resources
– промышленные и ядерные отходы – industrial and nuclear
waste
– атомные электростанции – nuclear power stations
Now, answer these questions:
– What does the environment mean?
– What are the most serious environmental problems?
– What makes sea water dangerous nowadays?
– Why is it dangerous to dump industrial waste in the sea?
– Where does air pollution in the cities mostly come from?
– Why are nuclear power stations dangerous?
– Do you remember how Present Simple Passive Tense is formed?
P: the word to be and Participle II.
T: That’s O.K. The next task is finish the sentences using
Present Simple Passive Tense:
– We pollute the air. The climate … is changed
– We throw away plastic bottles. The nature … is damaged
– We leave litter in the forests. The animals… are hurt
– We don‘t recycle paper. The trees… are cut down
– We break trees. The birds… are disturbed
– We plant the trees … The Earth is saved
T: There is an International Congress in our town. The theme is “The Earth is our Home.” The scientists from different countries are coming here. Will you introduce yourselves?
P1: Hello. My name is Bill Green. I am a sociologist. I am from Canada, I am the head of the UNESCO group. I like all living creatures, so I am here.
P2: Hello, My name is Jessica West. I am from London, from Great Britain. I am a historian by education, but I study the problems connected with water pollution.
P3: How do you do. My name is Mary Smith. I am a representative of the Green Peace Organization, I am an ecologist. I am very hard –working person, because I like my profession most of all.
P4: Hello, I am from Russia. My name is Yuliya Makarchuk. I like flowers and animals very much. So I want to speak about disappearing animals.
P5: My name is Michel Williams. I’m from Great Britain. I think that the problem of garbage and litter in our cities is very important. I want to discuss this problem. Thank you for your attention.
P6: How do you do. I’m Kate Parker from the USA. Pollution is getting worse and worse. The seas are in danger. They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear wastes. Every minute 1 kind of animals, plants or insect dies out for ever. Air pollution is a very serious problem. It’s high time to discuss these problems.
P7: Dear friends, my name is Joke Brown. I am from Oxford. I am a representative of the organization «Green Planet». I am going to discuss the problem of air pollution.
P8: Hello, I’m Kary Grey from Australia. I’m an ecologist. The intensive development of sciences, industry and chemistry in the 20th – 21st century has made the pollution of our environment a global problem which should be solved by all means. “Modern technology owes ecology an apology” Alan M. Eddison once said.
P9: Hello, my name is Sally Betley . I’m an ecologist too. I’m from Italy. I’m especially interested in the problem of disappearing species of animals.
P10: How do you do, my name is … . I’m from China. I’d like to discuss the problem of destruction of wildlife and the beauty of the countryside. An English critic C. Connolly once said “We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life, it is because we tire of our responsibility.”
T: Nice to meet you. Nowadays people understand how important it is to solve the environmental problems that endanger people’s lives. Let’s discuss the most important of them. Will you tell us about the situation in your countries and what you do to protect the Nature.
P4: The ecological situation in Russia is different and dangerous. The
Caspian Sea, lake Baikal and other water-bodies are in danger now. It is dangerous to walk
barefoot on the banks of our rivers and lakes because there is a lot of garbage, broken
glass, tins, bottles everywhere. Some people wash their cars, bicycles there. That’s
impossible!
The Aral Sea was the fourth largest lake in the world. The former sea bed is now a salt
desert. It was a home to 24 species of fish. The dying Aral Sea has changed the climate of
the region. A lot of people suffer from different diseases. The situation with the Black
Sea is also terrible. People pollute it every day with different wastes. And of cause you
how tragic the Chernobyl disaster was. A lot of territories were polluted by harmful
substances. Nuclear pollution cannot be seen but its effects can be terrible.
T: Are there any questions to …?
– What do you do to make the situation better?
P4: To make air clean again we try to use good filters at nuclear power stations, at factories and plants and also in cars and buses.
– Do your factories dump chemical wastes into the water?
P4: Some factories and companies dump millions of tons of oil into the sea every year. We can only imagine how many seabirds and animals, fish die in such water. They can’t live there. In such places all the birds leave their habitats and a lot of animals die. If people drink this water they can die too.
P6: In our country there is a big problem with acid rains. When we, the Americans, decided to clean up the Statue of Liberty in 1986, the first thing we had to do was to make a hole in her nose and take away the acid rain that had collected inside. The polluted air of New York had mixed with the rain and damaged the Statue badly. And you certainly know that most of the pollution in big cities comes from cars and buses. More and more often people are told not to spend to much time in direct sunlight, because ultraviolet radiation from the sun can cause skin cancer. The ozone layer in the atmosphere protects us from such radiation, but if there are holes in the ozone layer radiation can get to the Earth. Many scientists think that holes are the result of air pollution.
– What do you do to improve the situation?
P6: We try to control the plants and companies not to pollute the air. Men are beginning to understand that their environment is not just their own town or country, but the whole earth. That’s why we speak so much about ecology.
P3: Can I add something? In America a lot of forests disappeared. It
is necessary to plant new trees. It is necessary to keep balance all over the world. Our
towns become bigger and at the same time our nature goes to ruin. New-York is a big city,
not far from it there is a nature reserve. They wanted to build big shops there. But there
were many people who took part in the meeting protesting against it. They carried coffins
with trees in them. People are destroying the rainforests every day. The trees
are cut down and used as building material or fuel. The land on which these forests grow
is being used for homes and factories and roads.
Our former president, Franklin D Roosevelt, said “A nation that destroys its soil
destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh
strength to our people. I agree with these words.
There is an organization in the USA which is called Greenpeace. Their programme is
defending the trees. We must protect different plants.
P5: Excuse me, may I ask you a question?
P3: Of course.
P5: Air pollution is a great problem. How do the members of Greenpeace fight for realization of their programme?
P3: Well, there is a problem of air pollution in many cities such as Los Angeles. But the members of Greenpeace planted more than 1000 trees and now they continue to plant different trees. It is our practical work. “Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites” said William Ruckelshaus.
P5: Thank you for your answer. I’m a representative of the UK.
There are more then 300 nature centers in Great Britain’s cities and more than 30 are in
London. Children visit these centers with their teachers. They study and enjoy nature. In
Britain there are a lot of environmental groups: “Friends of the Earth”,
“Greenpeace”, “London Wildlife Trust”. British children learn a lot about the
Earth at school. There are a lot of ways in which they can help to save the Earth. It’s
a very good example for schoolchildren of all countries of our planet to follow. You can
help protect the environment by learning about and practicing the 3 Rules: REDUCE, RECYCLE
and REUSE!
People in England never drop litter in the street. If somebody sees you, you have to pay a
fine. They sort their rubbish: there are special containers for paper, tins, food, white
glass, brown glass and green glass. After that special factories recycle these materials
and people reuse them.
P9: Michel, I heard that many people in your country get to work by public transport. Is that right?
P5: Yes, it’s so. A lot of people use public transport. They don’t go by car, because firstly, cars pollute the atmosphere and secondly, because it's very difficult and expensive to park a car in a big city.
P9: I would like to discuss the problem of disappearing species of animals. Many animals and birds on the Earth are disappearing nowadays. Many of them are in danger. Indian tigers and African elephants are among them. People have hunted and killed many tigers in India and a lot of elephants in Africa. Tigers and elephants are often dangerous animals. Tigers can kill cows, sheep, other domestic animals, and sometimes they can also kill men. Some people are afraid of tigers and kill them to save their domestic animals and their lives. But some people have often hunted tigers for fun and for their beautiful skin. They can easily sell the skin and get, a lot of money as the prices are high. The result is very sad. There are few Indian tigers on the Earth now. Many of them are usually old, sick animals. Most tigers don’t hunt people nowadays, but hide from them in deep, dark forests, or they rather hid there earlier, because there aren’t many forests for tigers nowadays. People have cut down many trees. And the question is: “Have those animals got a future? We must protect our animals. “There is no place in nature for extinction”, said Licretius, Roman poet and philosopher.
P1: I’d like to add something. Some of the animals are disappearing now. 100,000 marine mammals and nearly a million seabirds die either from getting caught in or eating litter each year. Many of these creatures are already threatened or endangered species. They are carried into the Red Book. People don’t hunt these animals because these species are rare. I think governments should introduce harsher punishments for illegal hunters. People cannot be passive observers. They must try to do future life better.
T: You are absolutely right. Look at the screen. How beautiful the animals are! You should be kind to all of them and try not to disturb them.
P10: A lot of animals are very rare, almost extinct. It means that they are dying out because Man had damaged their homes. You know that a lot of forests are damaged, so these creatures are endangered. If we, humans, are as careless in future as we have been, very soon we’ll be able to see these animals only at the zoo, or at the natural history museums. It is not just animals that are in danger. So are plants. Our land is full of beautiful flowers, plants, trees which grow and blossom in the meadows, on the banks of the rivers and lakes, in the forests and in our gardens.
P2: To my mind, our possibilities are boundless. But there is hunger, death in the world. We must save our mankind. There are many organizations fighting for life on the planet. One of them is in Great Britain. Such famous men as Paul McCartney and Pink Floyd created a musical film «Mother – our Planet». It treats to all mankind to make it green again. It needs in hundreds years for cleaning water, air and land, for its revival. It has no time. We must hurry.
P7: There are lots of problems with air, soil and water pollution. For example, We know that water pollution is a great problem not only in our country. A hundred years ago you could catch eatable fish in rivers like the Thames and the Clyde (Great Britain). Now factories and homes put waste materials which are poisons into these rivers. Large cities on the Great lakes of the North America let different wastes flow into the water. These wastes brought down by the rivers are speeding up the process by which a lake becomes useless for shipping.
P8: I’d like to tell you about the decomposition times of different kinds of rubbish. For example, the approximate decomposition time of banana peel is 6 moths, of a wool sock – 1 year, for plastic bottles – 500 years, for tin cans – 100 years and glass doesn’t have decomposition time. We should all remember about it and try not to throw the litter away, but recycle all the materials. By the way, the 22nd of April is the day of Earth. Our Earth is so beautiful. Nature gives people its riches to live and enjoy. We cannot live without fresh air, clean water, sunshine and a lot of things, which we take from the nature. That’s why we must take care of it. We must keep our rivers and lakes, forests and towns clean. We must plant flowers – not to pick them, feed birds and animals in winter – not to kill them. Then we’ll be happy to live on the most beautiful planet in the Universe.
T: The Earth is our home. We must take care of it. How can we keep our
environment clean. What can we do to keep our environment clean? Match the problems and
their solutions.
You have cards with the words. You are to create the slogans.
Help to keep all water clean! Don’t harm plants! Protect animals and fish! Plant trees
and flowers! Recycling saves nature!
Let’s stick all these slogans on the blackboard and try to follow them.
Our discussion is over. But I’m sure you’re real friends of our fragile planet. You
will try to keep land, air and water clean, because the Earth is our home.
Write down your homework for the next lesson. Write an essay “Ecological Problems
of Our Region”. Let’s sing a song “We are the world, we are the children”
together.