Обобщающий урок "Do You Like School?"

Subject: English for pupils (11-13 years)

Duration of the lesson: 45 min.

Level: Elementary - Pre-intermediate

The theme of the lesson: “Do you like school?”

Hand-out material for every pupil (приложение 1)

Aims and the tasks of the lesson:

• To develop speaking skills on the topic of the lesson
• To make pupils familiar with the systems of education in the USA and Great Britain
• To motivate pupils to study the language and the culture of the English-speaking countries
• To develop listening skills
• To enlarge vocabulary
• To revise vocabulary

Ход урока

1. Приветствие.

- Good morning, boys and girls. How are you today? How many subjects do you have today? Do you like these subjects? Do you like your school?

Let’s discuss the attitude of modern pupils to school on today’s lesson. For successful discussion I would like you to study the words and word combinations from exercise 1.

2. Let’s start our discussion and answer the questions from exercise 2.

Do you like school? Why? (It’s fun/boring, I can meet friends there, you must get up early, too much homework, the teachers are friendly, ...)

Have you got lots of friends at school?

Why do children go to school (because they want to be clever, because they want to have a good job in the future, because they have many friends there, because they like the teachers/lessons, ...)?

3. Not only you but almost every person in the modern world goes to school. There are some quotations of such people, say if they are true or false for you. Justify your opinion.

1. “You don't appreciate (ценишь) a lot of stuff (вещей) in school until (пока не) you get older.” Emo Philips (American entertainer and comedian)
2. “He who opens a school door, closes a prison (тюрьму).” Victor Hugo (French writer)
3. “School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect so why bother?” Billie Joe Armstrong (American musician, “Green day”)

4. Let’s work in groups and study and make use of the following words and expressions. If you don’t know the meaning of any word, let’s discuss it together (exercise 4)

School subjects: optional, compulsory, Maths, English, Russian, Geography, Biology, Science, Chemistry, Technology, Algebra, Geometry, Art, Music, Reading, Psychology, Sociology, History, Drama, P.E. (Physical Education), I.T. (Information Technology).

School routines: to go to school, to go home, to have ... lessons a day, to finish school, to have lunch/a break, a packed lunch, to leave school, to cut/miss classes, to walk out of school, to be ill, to stay from school, to meet with friends after school, to get good/bad marks, to study in the ... th form, to take/pass exams, to have tests.

Extracurricular activities: to visit a Drama club/ a school choir/ an Art club/ a chess club, to have dancing/ singing/ English/ extra lessons, to do karate/judo, to go swimming, to play in a school football/basketball team.

Qualities:

• positive: interesting, fun, exciting, fantastic, nice, outstanding, clever, intelligent.
• negative: boring, tiring, depressing, unjust, frightening.

School things and classroom objects: a classroom, a pencil, a pen, crayons, paper, a book, a ruler, scissors, a notebook, an eraser/a rubber, a pencil sharpener, a desk, a board, a computer, a chair, a pencil case, a calculator, a glue, paint, a paintbrush, a school bag, a marker, a class, a teacher, a student, a pupil.

5. Let’s do the next exercise and complete the sentences with the following phrases:

1. After school I _______________ and do my homework. Then I go for a walk with my friends.
2. I love History and always ______________ for my answers. It’s like travelling in time.
3. I never have lunch in a school canteen (столовая). I prefer a __________.
4. You can’t pass exams with excellent marks if you __________ classes.
5. He’s in the third form, so he doesn’t have ___________.

6. Look at the pictures in your papers and try to guess what people say in these situations at school. Fill in the speech bubbles:

- Can you help me?

7. Work in pairs and match English and Russian equivalents. Then we’ll check it together:

1. Если ты обожаешь футбол и любишь в него играть, вступай в нашу школьную футбольную команду.

Can I borrow a pen? Mine doesn’t write.

2. В американских школах пять обязательных предметов. Остальные предметы дети выбирают.

It takes me 20 minutes to get to school on foot.

3. Можно мне ручку? Моя не пишет.

If you love football and enjoy playing it, join our school football team.

4. У меня занимает 20 минут, чтобы добраться до школы пешком.

There are five compulsory subjects in American schools. Others are optional

8. Do you know anything about schools and education in the English-speaking countries? When do children start school? How long do they study? Do they wear a uniform? Do they have tests and examinations? What marks can they have? How many subjects have they got? Let’s watch the presentation “Schools in Great Britain and the USA”. Which school would you like to go to? Why? Are they similar to Russian schools?

9. If you want you can ask your teacher question about school, for example:

1. Did you like going to school when you were a child? Why?
2. Did you have lots of friends at school?
3. Did you often miss classes? Were you a good student?
4. What was your favourite subject? Why?
5. Do you miss school days?

 10. Thank you so much for your questions. Now try to interview your partner about his/her opinion

(work in groups of 3-4 people). Be ready to share the most interesting information.

11. To sum our lesson up, please tell me: Can school be fun or is it always boring?

Thank you for your work and attention. I hope school will be more interesting and more pleasant now for you.

Приложение.