Тип урока: развитие умений диалогической речи.
Вид урока: комбинированный.
Цель: комплексное формирование лексико-грамматических навыков учащихся в рамках темы, обучение устной речи в рамках темы “Научно-технический прогресс”.
Задачи:
- образовательные –
Оснащение урока (технические средства обучения): компьютер, проектор, аудиозаписи, раздаточный материал.
Ход урока
1. Организационный этап.
Teacher: Good morning everybody! Glad to see you again! Sit down please.
2. Сообщение темы и цели урока.
Teacher: So, boys and girls, today we are going to talk much about computers. The topic of our discussion is “Computers: friends or foes?” Please, read the statement on the blackboard and try to guess what the main aim of our lesson is:
“Computers aren’t intelligent, they only think they are”
(Учащиеся высказывают свои идеи.)
3. Речевая разминка. Актуализация лексики по теме.
А. Fill in the mind map.
Работа ведется фронтально, назвавший свой вариант последним – победитель.
Примерные ответы учащихся:
- searching for information
- typing and keeping information
- listening to music
- reading books
- downloading information
- watching films
- printing documents
- using e-mail
- chatting with friends and relatives
- using social networks…
В. A computer quiz. Answer the questions. Use the words in the box:
(Работа организована в парах, дается время обдумать ответы на вопросы, затем каждая пара дает свои ответы, дополняя или поправляя при этом своих одноклассников.)
- What computer system makes it possible to send letters very quickly?
- What system allows computer users around the world to send and to obtain information?
- What programs provide colorful pictures and sound?
- What is the name of a computer-created “world”, which seems almost completely real?
- What is a special term, which means “to obtain stored information from a computer’s memory”?
- What do we call a disk on which a large quantity of information can be stored?
- What do you call a sudden, unexpected computer failure?
- What is the term for the electrical or electronic components of a computer?
- What do we call a large collection of data that is stored in a computer system?
- What is the term for a set of instructions secretly put into a computer that destroys the information stored in it and stops it from working normally?
- Where on the Internet can you look for information about products and services offered by a company or organization?
- What is WWW?
- What store of information can you easily put into your pocket?
- What do we call a set of computer programs to control the operation of a computer?
- What kind of computer can you use on the plane?
4. Рефлексия.
Were the questions difficult for you?
Did you know the answers to all questions?
Could you explain the answers in Russian or in English? What was easier for you?
Have you learnt something new? Do you think it’s useful to know?
5. Аудирование
А. Listen to the interview with Mike Phillips, a journalist and match phrases from the interview (first column) to the ones similar in meaning from the second column. Add more uses of computers to the mind-map.
| 1. searching for | a) keeping a diary |
| 2. plug into | b) looking for |
| 3. an integral part | c) save the time |
| 4. user-friendly | d) easy to use |
| 5. reduce the time | e) a necessary part |
| 6. keeping track of life | f) connect to |
В. Listen to the interview again and fill in the gaps with the phrases from the table
- I use it mainly for word processing (but not for writing, which I still do with a pen), ________, _______________ from the Internet, for writing purposes or for traveling.
- I used to think the PC’s main purpose in our lives was to ______________ it took to get things done so that people could enjoy other hobbies – skiing, for example.
- The PC is becoming ______________ of our private and professional lives I should say.
- It was a small thing produced here in England, _____________ the TV.
- And that was what got me really interested because the Macintosh is very _____________ .
6. Чтение.
Read the story “Steve belonged to the Net”and put the linking words where it is necessary. Answer the questions after the text.
7. Грамматика.
(Работа проводится фронтально, обсуждается стратегия выполнения заданий в формате ЕГЭ раздел “Чтение”, следует сделать акцент на необходимость знания грамматических структур для успешного выполнения заданий.
- Why are the linking words in the text so important?
- Which sentences in the first paragraph describe facts and which a process? Name the grammar forms of the verbs. Find some other cases in the text.
- Read the sentences with while and when. Which grammar forms help to describe the actions in the past?
- Read the underlined sentences in the 6th paragraph. Which was earlier in time? How do you know? Find other cases in the text.
Read this paragraph. Somebody is talking about using computers. Complete the text by choosing one word for each gap. One of the words is used twice.
For me, computers are a (1) _________ to an end, nothing (2)_________ . I don’t find them interesting in (3) __________ . They enable me to do things that I need to do, (4) ________ as sending emails or checking information on websites to help me (5) __________ my homework or connected to one of my hobbies. But (6) __________ my sister the situation is (7) ________ different. It’s like you can’t believe we’re (8) ___________ related. She is obsessed with computers. I don’t understand, but that’s the truth.
8. Говорение.
In groups of three discuss the text “Steve belonged to the Net”. Answer the questions:
- Why was the author so surprised that Steve didn’t want to talk to him?
- How does the author describe his emotions?
- Why was he worried in the end of the narration?
- Can social networks substitute real life communication? What is your opinion?
- How much time do you personally spend on the Net?
- Do you have enough time for your hobbies or doing sport?
- Would you rather have a computer or a person for company on a desert island?
Discuss with your partners whether computers are friends or foes in our life. Use the expressions on p. 242-243 of Student Books.
Работа в группах по 3 человека. (Представление своих аргументов, выражение согласия/несогласия.)
9. Подведение итогов урока.
Teacher: Well, I’d like to say that we have worked hard and you’ve been very active. I see that the problems we’ve discussed today are very interesting to you. I’d like you to express your attitude towards the exercises we’ve done and strategies we’ve discussed. What was difficult for you? What was new? Was it useful? Are you sure that you can express your opinion whether computers are friends or foes?
10. Домашнее задание.
SB упр. 2(1), стр. 240, диалог в группах “Computers: friends or foes?”