Методическая разработка урока по английскому языку по теме «Schools in Russia and Great Britain» с использованием интерактивных заданий на веб-сервисе LearningApps.org with a surprise song

Aims:

• To  practise the pupils in using words and expressions on the topic Education in speech;
• To develop the students’ skills in listening to the text ignoring unknown words;
• To develop skills of silent reading with the understandinbg of general meaning;
• To do creative exercises connected with the texts of reading and listening;
• To revise grammar-tag question;
• To develop socio-cultural competence.

Equipment: PC, multimedia projector and screen.

Before class. A teacher prints tables, exercises on the texts of reading and listening and prepares illustrations. During the lesson the illustrations, the text and the tables are demonstrated with the help of the multimedia projector and the screen.

I. Introduction

1) Warm up. Our Motto:

Tell me - I forget,

Show me - I remember,

Involve me - I understand.

2) Lexical exercises.

Learn the proverbs. Match the beginning of the proverb in column A with its ending in column B.

1. Live and Learn.
2. Knowledge is power.
3. Little knowledge is dangerous.
4. It’s never too late to learn.
5. To know everything is to know nothing.
6. There is no royal road to learning.

(учитель использует интерактивные упражнения ПАЗЛЫ на вебсервисе https://learningapps.org/display?v=pq481hngj puzzles/ match the proverbs with a surprise school song

II. Main Part of the Lesson

Listening. Schools in Britain.

А) Pre-Listening Tasks:

WORD BANK

B) Listening.

Schools in Gret Britain

Dear Russian friends, I’m writing this letter from England. My name is Jane. I’m twelve. I go to school. It is a girls’ school. In our country boys and girls usually study together, but there are still schools where boys and girls study separately.

The teaching staff of our school is not very large. We have a headmistress, a deputy head, about twenty teachers and four hundred studentss. It is a comprehensive school, so there are not only academic subjects but students can also take accounting, typing, shorthand, nursing and housekeeping. We have classes five days a week, Monday to Friday. I get to school at 8.40. We have prayers at 8.50 and start our lessons at 9.30. We have five lessons in the morning: two before break and three after break. After lunch we have two more lessons. But we also have an extra hour to discuss our form matters with the form mistress. School usually ends at 3.40.

We learn such subjects as: English, French, German, Maths, History, Science, Geography, Needlework, Art, Drama, Physical Training, Music and Religious Instructions.
I think that is all about me. I hope to hear about you soon.

Please, write to me about your school. Do boys and girls study together? How many lessons are there every day? What subjects do you study in your school?

Keep in touch! Write me  soon.  Yours, Jane.

C) Post-Listening task. 

1) Match the pairs

2) Find 13 school subjects.

3) Guess the room:

1. Books, newspapers, magazines are kept there. You go there to borrow or read books.
2. A room where you have lessons at school.
3. Meetings, performances, gatherings and parties are held in it.
4. A place where you can watch sports matches.
5. You can leave your coat or bag there.
6. A room where you do exercises for your body.
7. A room where you can eat sandwiches and drink tea or juice during the break.
8. A room for teachers and class registers.

4) Name the subjects which are taught in English girls’ schools.

Answer keys: 1. Typing, 2. Nursery, 3. Accounting, 4. Needlework, 5. Shorthand, 6. Housekeeping, 7. Religious Instructions.

(Pictures are demonstrated on the screen)

Reading. (text for reading is printed beforehand. Each student gets the text. It can akso be shown on the screen)

Schools in Russia

You listened to the text about schools in Britain. You also get and read some pupils’ e-mail letters from English-speaking countries. So you’ve learnt much interesting information. My name is Irene and I’d like to tell you about schools in Russia.

The right to education in Russia is guaranteed. (more information Federal Law № 273 from 26.07.2019 (Article 5).

Every boy or girl must get secondary education; it means that secondary education is compulsory in our country. There are state schools where education is free of charge and private schools where pupils’s relatives have to pay for their studies.

I live in Kurganinsk. It is in Krasnodar kray. I study at a secondary school. My school was built many years ago. When I was ten I left primary school and went to a secondary one.

Now I am eleven and I am a pupil of the fifth form. We go to school from Monday to Friday. We usually have six lessons a day. Every school has a core curriculum and a school curriculum. The core curriculum includes such subjects as Maths, Russian and Literature, Biology, History, Geography, English, Art, PT, Music and other subjects. According to the school curriculum we can choose extra activities.

As for me I take Plant Growing twice a week: on Tuesdays and Fridays.  I am good at all subjects and get only good and excellent marks.

Lessons begin at 8 a.m. and last to 1 or 2 p. m. We have some breaks for lunch and rest. Teachers give us home tasks after each lesson.

We have to wear school uniform. 

Teachers are strict but fair.         

B) Post-Reading tasks.

Test yourselves. Which statements refer to schools in Russia (R) and which ones to schools in Britain (B). 

Writing. Make up some tag questions to the sentences. (Учитель может предложить предложения на своё усмотрение)

Every boy or girl must get secondary education in Russia…
There are state schools where education is free of charge…
I do not study at a primary school...
My school was built many years ago...
We go to school from Monday to Friday…
We do not have three lessons a day…
I take Plant Growing twice a week: on Tuesdays and Fridays… 
We have to wear school uniform… 
Teachers are strict but fair…

B) Put all kinds of questions to the sentence:

I study at a secondary school. (Учитель может выбрать другое предложение для отработки типов вопросов в Present Simple или другом грамматическом времени)

4. Speaking. Discuss in groups. What is common and different in educational structure in Russia and Great Britain?

III. Conclusion

1. Homework.

Write an e-mail letter to an English pen pal: “School I Study at”.

Get ready to retell it.

You can use the following questions as a plan

1. Which school do you study at?
2. Where is it situated?
3. What is there behind the school and in front of it?
4. When was the school built?
5. How do the classrooms look like?
6. Which floor is your classroom situated on?
7. What do you think of your classmistress?
8. What subject does she teach?
9. When do lessons begin?
10. How many lessons have you got a day?
11. What do the pupils have their daybooks for?
12. Are the pupils often called to the blackboard in your school?
13. What happens if the pupils make mistakes?
14. What do the teachers give you after every lesson?
15. What do you get at the end of the each term?
16. What compulsory subjects do you study at your school?
17. Are you good at all of them?
18. What is your favourite subject? Why?
19. Do you realize that a good knowledge of English is important nowadays? Prove it.

2. Summarizing.

What have you done at the lesson today?

What grammar did you revise?

Can you use tag questions in speech?

What is common and different in educational structure in Russia and Great Britain?

Источники.

1. Federal Law № 273 from 26.07.2019 (Article 5) [http://www.consultant.ru/document/cons_doc_LAW_140174/e185d59b595b6bf58b8716c9d5129a3dd5b7630a/]

2. больше информации LearningApps.org упражнения автора по ссылке https://learningapps.org/myapps.php

3. Картинки: открытый доступ в Интернете. [http://images.yandex.ru/]

4. Скрин видеопесни