Тема урока: "Mark Twain". 6-й класс

Цель урока: развитие коммуникативных способностей учащихся через различные виды речевой деятельности.

Задачи урока:

• Образовательные:
  • активизация вопросительных предложений в Past Simple.
  • введение новой лексики по теме: собственные имена и географические названия, расширение кругозора учащихся.
  • умение пересказать текст в прошедшем времени от 1 лица.
  • подготовка учащихся к созданию проекта по биографии писателя.
• Развивающие:
  • развитие навыков устной монологической речи.
  • развитие навыков аудирования.
• Воспитательные:
  • развитие умения работать в паре и команде.
  • формирование положительной мотивации к изучению английского языка.

УМК: М.З. Биболетова, О.А. Денисенко, Н.Н. Трубанева Английский с удовольствием / Enjoy English: Учебник для 5-6 кл. общеобраз. учрежд., изд-во «Титул». 2011.

Доп. литература: М.А. Гацкевич English. Английский для школьников и абитуриентов: Топики, упражнения, диалоги. Изд-во «КАРО», 2009, фотографии из интернета.

Оборудование: компьютер, магнитофон, фото известных людей, раздаточный материал.

ХОД УРОКА

I. Greetings

Т: High Five. Good morning, dear children. I am glad to see you.
Ps: Good morning, dear teacher. We are glad to see you too.
T: What is the weather like today? Is everybody present today? Who is absent? What did you do yesterday? What will you do tomorrow?

II. Warming-up exercises. The aim of the lesson

T: Look at these pictures. Who are they? Name them. (Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein, M. Thatcher, Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Diana, Mark Twain, G. Washington, W. Shakespeare).
Ps: This is Ch. Chaplin. He was a famous actor, etc.
Т: Good. Who can guess what we are going to speak about today.
Ps: About famous people.
T: Well done. Today we are going to know all about M.Twain.

III. Homework. (SB Ex. 48 p. 94 – read and translate, make 6 questions)

1) All Write Round Robin.

Mix, read your questions to your classmates. Find out the questions you don’t have. Write them in your papers. Examples:
– Who is M. Twain?
– What do you know about him?
– Why did literary clubs invite M. Twain to speak?
– Why did a club member ask him to tell a funny story?
– Did M. Twain know a lot of funny stories?
– What jokes did the famous writer tell?
– Could he make the old man laugh?
– What did the club member tell M/Twain after the lecture?
– How long didn’t the old man laugh?

2) Find a person you are going to meet at six o’clock (Clock Buddies).
Students, whose hair is longer, will ask questions, partners will answer. You have 1 min.
Change, please.

IV. Retelling

1) T: Use a plan and retell the text in turn.

M. Twain was a … . He was well known ... . One day the literary club … . Before his lecture a club member … . M. Twain noticed an old man … . He began to tell … . Everybody laughed
but … . After the lecture, the club member … . He told the famous writer that … .

2) T: Retell the text as you were M. Twain. Timed Pair Share.

V. Relaxing

Let’s sing «Yesterday».

VI.  Listening

1) Pre-listening questions.

• What was M.Twain’s real name?
• Who were the prototypes of the heroes of his stories?
• How many children did he have?

2) Listening (Гацкевич М.А. CD топик №42)

3) T: Now answer the questions, please.

VII. Reading

1) New vocabulary.
2) Read the text to yourselves. (p. 116-117 Гацкевич М.А. Английский для школьников и абитуриентов)

VIII. Reading activities

1) Role-play “Take an interview from M.Twain”.

2) Reading for detail.

Choose the correct verb to complete the sentences: was invited, was sent, had, took, decided, began, was, was, published, spent.

1. In summer, when school ... over, the boys ... many happy hours on the Missouri River.
2. Mark Twain ... to work as a journalist for a newspaper.
3. In 1876 M.Twain ... his best novel “The adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
4. When Samuel ... to write he chose for himself the name Mark Twain.
5. When the boy ... five years old, he ... to school.
6. The pilot ... to know the river very well when he ... a ship along it.
7. In 1853 Samuel ... to leave home.

IX. Make up the poster

Students share in group and do a project work about M.Twain (Raft).

X. Summary. Giving homework

T: Next lesson we will continue to speak about M. Twain and other famous people.
What new information about M.Twain have you learnt on the lesson?

H/w: Finish your project work and be ready to present it to other students.