Тема урока "Song Lessons. Wonderful world by Sam Cooke"

Цели:

• развитие аудитивных навыков, произносительных навыков, грамматических навыков,
• пополнение словарного запаса,
• отработка речевых навыков,
• ознакомление учеников с элементами культуры страны изучаемого языка,
• приобщение учащихся к культуре страны изучаемого языка,
• развитие взаимопонимания, толерантного отношения к проявлению иной культуры,
• приобщение к особенностям культуры своей страны и развитие умения представлять её в процессе общения средствами иностранного языка. 

A lesson about the simple present: negative

I.  Организационная часть урока

1) Приветсевие

2) Учащимся сообщается тема урока

II. Основная часть урока

Song background

Sam Cooke was born in Mississippi, a state in the southern United States. He had seven brothers and sisters. When he was little, he sang with his family in a group called The Singing Children. Later, he sang gospel music (religious music) in his church. Then he began to sing popular music. His music is called soul music. Soul music is a mix of gospel music and rock and roll. Sam Cooke is called the King of Soul because he was one of the first to play soul music.
Sam Cooke first sang “Wonderful World” in the 1950s. It is about a high school student who isn’t a very good student, but who knows a lot about love.

Vocabulary

These are just a few of the vocabulary words you might want to discuss for this lesson.

algebra: a type of math class that uses letters and signs to talk about numbers, for example, “X + Y = Z”
history: a class where you study things that happened in the past
biology: a class where you study living things: plants and animals
geography: a class where you study countries, oceans, cities of the world
trigonometry: a class where you study the parts of a triangle
slide rule: a kind of calculator
an “A” student: a very good student
claim: say that something is true

Grammar background

This song uses a lot of negatives in the simple present tense. Go over the examples with your students.

Subject do/does not main verb

We do not eat fish.
She does not like coffee.
Ask for a volunteer to form the contractions. Remind them that people usually use
contractions when they speak.
We don’t eat fish.
She doesn’t like coffee.
There are many sentences like this in the song.
Some of the sentences in “Wonderful World” leave out the subject like this:
Don’t know much about …
Explain that sometimes people might leave out the subject in music or poetry, but not in
ordinary speech and writing.

Student worksheet while listening

1. Listen to the song once.

Is the singer a good student or a bad student?
Why do you think so?

2. Now listen again.

• make a list of what the singer doesn’t know

• make a list of what the singer does know.

(Don’t worry about spelling right now. You can even write a quick note in your
language. Then go back and write the English word.)

• Check your answers with another student.
• Listen one more time. Look at the words of the song. Can you find any other simple present forms?

After  listening

1. Things to think about and discuss

In pairs, small groups, or as a whole class, share your answers to these questions:

– Do you think the singer is smart about some things? Which things?
– The singer wants a girl that he knows to love him.
– Do you think the woman is a good student or a bad student? Why?

2. Speaking & Writing

In a small group or as a whole class, share the information that you enter in the chart below.

• Write three things that you know about.
• Write three things that you don’t know much about.

Now talk to three other students.

– Ask each student to tell you one thing they do know about and one thing they don’t know about.
– Write their answers in your chart.
– Be sure to write their name too.

What do you know about?                              What don’t you know about?

I know________________________             I don’t know _________________________ 
1.
2.
3.

Three other students

What does he (she) know about?                   What doesn’t he (she) know about?

1.
2.
3.

Now write sentences for all the information in your chart. For example:

I know a lot about English.
I don’t know much about Italian.
Maria knows a lot about food.
She doesn’t know much about plants.

III. Подведение итогов

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