Урок английского языка по теме "Космос". 7-й класс

Тип урока: урок систематизации и обобщения знаний и умений.

Цель урока: формирование основных языковых компетенций на уроке английского языка.

Задачи:

• Образовательные: научить учащихся использовать изученную лексику по теме “Космос” и отработать ее употребление в речи.
• Развивающие: развивать умение высказывать свою точку зрения, личное отношение к поставленной проблеме; умение аргументировать свое высказывание.
• Воспитательные: воспитывать уважение к подвигам советских космонавтов, умение давать научное обоснование загадочным явлениям природы.

ХОД УРОКА

1. Greeting. Warm-up.

A short video “Planets” by Storybots.  ATalk after the film “Planets”.

1. How old is the universe?-(15 bill)
2. What is the universe doing all the time?-(expanding)
3. What is the name of our galaxy?
4. How many planets are there in in the solar system?
5. Can you name the planets?
6. Is Pluto a planet?-(Dwarf)
7. What is the biggest planet? –(Jupiter)
8. What is the hottest planet?- (Venus)
9. What is our nearest neighbour?

2. Students speak about the Earth and the Moon.

The Earth.

The Earth is a planet which moves around the sun and gets light from it. It is turning all the time, but we cannot see or feel it. The Earth turns around in 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds. This makes our day. The Earth also goes around the sun in 365 and one fourth days. This makes our year.

The Earth is the only planet in our Solar system where there is life. Nothing can live without water, air and the sun. The sun gives warmth and light to people, animals, birds and plants. From space you can see that 75% of the Earth is water. There is water in rivers, lakes, sees and oceans. There is water in plants and air.

The Moon

Our nearest neighbour is the Moon. It’s the Earth’s satellite. We can see the Moon in the sky at night. If we look at the moon through a telescope, we can see mountains and plains.

But the Moon is very different from the Earth. Gravity on the Moon is six times weaker than on the Earth. There isn’t any air or water. During the day it is very hot but at night it is very cold. Nothing can live on the Moon.

In 1969 two American astronauts  went to the Moon in the Apollo 11 rocket. They landed on the Moon and put up an American flag.

The eclipses

Sometimes we can see an eclipse of the sun and an eclipse of the moon .If the moon goes between the Earth and the sun, we have an eclipse of the sun. The moon stops the light from the sun and we have night in the day.

If the Earth goes between the moon and the sun, we have an eclipse of the moon. The moon goes into the shadow and it disappears for a few minutes.

3.  Race to space.

Work in pairs. Put the events in chronological order:

4. The ISS Alpha (a cloud)

Look at the picture and use the word in your sentence(Size, compartments, radio, laboratories, gravity, fixed, weightless, exercise, menu, float, wear, oxygen, experiments, repairs,housework, power, recycle.)

5. A talk about aliens with the help of a Mind Map.

Student 1-there are stories about aliens: In the last 60 years thousands of people have seen UFOs in the sky.A lot of people believe that they are alien spaceships visiting our planet.Aliens land on Earth  and take samples of plant and trees. A common story is that aliens take people into their spaceships and do medical tests.

Student 2- for aliens:Thousands of people around the world say they have seen aliens.These include a lot of professional people(pilots, scientists, police officers). Their stories are similar. There are radar images too.

Student 3-against aliens: There is no scientific proof of alien spaceships. There are no clear photos< a lot of them are false. There are natural explanations for UFOs: stars,meteors,clouds,insects. Ther are also homan explanations: aeroplanes, parashutes,secret military operations.

6. Do the crossword “Space”. A group work.

7. Speak about famous Soviet cosmonauts.

Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth. Yuri Gagarin was born in 1934 in the village of Klushino in the Smolensk region. Yuri was the third of four children. He was an active, brave and curious boy. His favourite school subjects were Maths and physics.

During the Second World War Yuri and other boys rescued the pilot and hid him. It was very dangerous. This episode deeply influenced him and from that time he wanted to be a pilot. He began to fly when he was a student of a technical school in Saratov. Then  he entered a flying school for military pilots. He was an intelligent and hard working student and became a test pilot in the army. In 1960 Gagarin joined the 1st group of cosmonauts.

Gagarin had all the important qualifications: excellent health, courage, resolution, patriotism.

On 12th April, 1961 YG flew into space and spent 108 minutes there. It was the 1st time in history that the Russian spaceship “Vostok” with the man on board was in space. After the famous flight  Yuri Gagarin became a world-wide celebrity. He visited many countries and saw millions of people. He became a hero of the Soviet Union.

He died in a plane crash in 1968, but people will always remember the 1st Russian cosmonaut.

Valentina Tereshkova

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the 1st woman to travel into space. She was born in the village of Maslennikovo, Yaroslavl region on the 6th of March , 1937.  She had no pilot training before her career as a cosmonaut. She was a textile-factory worker and  a very good parachutist.

She joined the Soviet cosmonaut programme in 1961 and on the 16th of June in 1963 she flew into space in Vostok 6 . Her call sign in this flight was Chaika.  She spent in space 3 days and made 48 orbits around the Earth.

In space at the same time was another Soviet cosmonauts-Valeri Bikovsky in Vostok 5 .He had flown into space 2 days before. They landed on June the 19th.

After that T. left the cosmonaut programme and got married to another Soviet cosmonaut-Adrian Nikolaev. T. was named a Hero of the Soviet Union and got a lot of other awards and honours.

She became an active political person in the Soviet Union and later in Russia. She was elected to the Russian State Duma in 2011. In 2014 she carried the Olympic flag at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Sochi.

She said that she would like to fly to Mars, even if it was a one-way trip.

Vladimir Dzhanibekov

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dzhanibekov is a Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

Не was born  in South Kazakhstan Region on the 13th of May 1942.

In 1960 he entered Leningrad University to study physics. He also studied at the Taganrog State University of Radioengineering. Four years later he graduated and became a flying instructor in the Soviet Air force. Then he was selected into the team of cosmonauts.

Dzhanibekov made five flights into outer space . He spent 145 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes in space in these five missions.

Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh saved the Salyut 7 station. In 1985, contact with Salyut 7 was lost. The station began to drift, and all systems shut down.

They made repairs in the outer space and the dead station began to work again.

After leaving the cosmonaut program in 1986, he became interested in ballooning, and flying around the world.

Dzhanibekov made a great contribution to the Soviet space programme. In 1979 the minor planet 3170 Dzhanibekov, was named after him.

8. Conclusion.

Teacher: Now we have come to the end of our lesson. I’d like to thank all the pupils for good work and give you the marks. Your home task for the next lesson is…

Referencies

• New Opportunities Pre-Intermediate. Michael Harris Irina Solokova. Pearson  Longman 2016
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova
• https://go.mail.ru/search_video?q=storybots%20planets&fm=1
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Dzhanibekov