Открытый урок "Wonderful and so vulnerable". 6-й класс

(Удивительные и такие уязвимые Исчезающие виды птиц).

Цель: воспитывать гуманизм; личность, способную ценить отношения между человеком, обществом и природой; учить беречь и охранять птиц, животных и всё живое на Земле, формировать осознание себя, как части экосистемы.

Практические (общеобразовательные):

1. изучить отдельные виды вымерших и исчезающих видов птиц и обсудить причины их исчезновения, формы защиты птиц, занесённых в Красную Книгу;
2. разучить песню “Додо”;
3. представить учащимся новый грамматический материал (специальные вопросы) и выполнить упражнения на первичное закрепление грамматики;
4. представить новую лексику (названия птенцов различных видов птиц) и выполнить упражнения на её закрепление.

Развивающие: развивать коммуникативное умение и готовность использовать английский язык в реальном общении, умение вести беседу, выражая своё мнение; вести диалог-расспрос.

Воспитательные: воспитывать глобальный гуманизм; любовь и бережное отношение к животным и птицам.

Good morning, dear boys and girls.

Pupils: (sing greeting song).

Hello, hello, hello,
Hello, how are you?
I like to be with you
And you and you and you.

2. Learn a short song and remember new phrases with the word ‘take’.

Teacher: Listen and repeat:

Pupils: Air, hare, bear, fair.

Teacher: Sing with me:

Pupils: I take care of my hare.

I take care of my bear.

to take	a book/ a pen	брать
	care of	заботиться об
	pictures	фотографировать

Teacher: Yesterday I was at a very wonderful place! Where was I? I saw…

Today we are going there together. Why is it so wonderful? Maybe it is because you can see not only endangered animals but even extinct ones, isn’t it?

We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.
How about you, you, you?
You can come too, too, too.
We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

This is Dodo. The dodo was a large bird with short legs, a huge beak, stubby wings and a small feathered tail. That’s why it cannot fly. Dodo used to live peacefully on the island of Mauritius. . It nested on the ground and ate fruit that had fallen from trees. Many years ago sailors came there. Within 100 years of the arrival of humans, the dodo had become a rare bird. They killed and ate all of them. The last one was killed in the 1680s. Now we can see Dodo only in our unusual zoo. What a pity!

Don’t feel upset, dear boys and girls. Let’s learn new song about the Dodo and know same more interesting facts about it.

I. Many, many years ago
There lived a dodo.
Now here on the Earth
There are no such big birds.

Dodo, dodo,
How I wonder what you were!

II. With a sharp and yellow nose,
You were funny, dodoes.
People say you couldn’t fly
Like the others in the sky.

III. Funny birds that couldn’t fly,
Many years ago died.
They are just museum birds
Disappeared from the Earth.

Lexis Feeding Activity: You’ve just listened to this song. Now try to match the beginning to the end of the lines from the song. Read the beginning of each line, use your memory of the song and try to find the lexical link between the two halves.

1) What was that bird?

2) How did the dodo look like?

3) Where did it live?

4) When was the last bird killed?

5) Why did sailors kill large numbers of dodos?

Hummingbird.

The Hummingbird is a tiny bird. They are known as hummingbird because of the humming sound created by their beating wings. It has a tail of unusual structure. It consists of only four feathers. It is about 10 centimeters long and its weight is 20 grams. It lives in the high valley of Peru. It’s interesting that when the nights get colder, its body temperature can drop significantly and its heart beats slower to keep the warm of its body. As the day heats back up, the hummingbird’s body temperature comes back up and it resume its normal activity.

1)

– What is this bird’s name?
– Hummingbird.
– Oh! I have never seen such tiny bird. How much does it weigh?
– It weighs about 20 gram.
– How long is it?
– It is about 10 cm long.

2)

– I want to write a report about the most wonderful bird in the zoo. What is the most unusual bird in your opinion?
– Let’s have a look at this one. How do you like it?
– Why does its name a hummingbird?
– Oh, it’s because of the humming sound. Listen to!
– Yes, it creates a very unusual sound. What does it create with?
– Such sound is created by its beating wings.
– Oh, I see. Thank you.

Pigeon, duckling, goose, owlet, eagle, peafowl, cygnet, duck, gosling, swan, peachick, eaglet, turkey, owl, squab, poult.

Example: A duck has ducklings.

So, we’ve learnt the bird dodo was so big, but so vulnerable. People hunted these birds ruthlessly and such wonderful species of bird had disappeared. On the contrary, the birdie-hummingbird is so small and also, we know, it is an endangered species. Animals and birds need protection. Earth is our global house: the house for people, animals, birds, plants: all living creatures.

Some of you have prepared and want to recite poems about birds and animals. Let’s sum up of our lesson with words:

“….The bird’s on the wing;
The snail’s on the thorn,
God’s in his heaven;
All’s right with the world.” (By Robert Browning (1812–1889))

You have prepared for today's lesson very well: prepared projects, learnt poems; at our lesson we have been learning…

Pupil 1: to ask special questions, we have learnt new lexis (nestlings’ names of different birds);

Pupil 2: we have made up interview– dialogues, using situations at the zoo, have learnt the song, discussed the problem of endangered species of birds.

Teacher: I think you deserve excellent and good marks only.

1) Prepare the report about an endangered bird (if you want to prepare Power Point presentation you may do it) and ask 10 special questions to your text in written form using lesson’s grammar (special questions);

2) learn the song "Dodo" by heart;

3) learn nestlings’ names of different birds and prepare for a quiz.

Teacher: Thank you very much for your work. See you next lesson. The lesson is over. Good-bye!