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Books in Our Life

Открытый урок по английскому языку

Задачи:
1. Практическая: формирование навыков и умений в монологической речи по материалам темы “Books” с использованием лексического, грамматического материала (Passive, Cond. I, II, III, Complex Object).
2. Образовательная: расширение кругозора учащихся по теме “Книги”.
3. Воспитательная: воспитание любви к чтению.
4. Развивающая: развитие памяти, внимания, логики, цельности высказывания.

Цель: обучение общению и высказыванию по теме “Книги”.

Речевой материал: Богородицкая В.Н. “English” IX; Katona Lucia “General Communication Skills and Exercises”.
Оснащение: выставка “Книги”, раздаточный материал, портреты английских и американских писателей.

Teacher: The subject of our lesson is: “Books in our life”. We’ll talk about different genres of books, about your favourite writers and books.
First of all look at the blackboard.

На доске написаны слова: emotion, entertain, appeal, quotation, peculiarity, enrich.

Teacher: Read it, please. Write down the words. Give the definition of each word. Make up your own sentences with the words.
Answer the questions:
1. Are you keen on reading?
2. Does reading play an important role in your life?
3. How much time do you devote to it?
4. Do you read for pleasure, for information, or for both?
5. Do you consider yourself to be well-read?
Now read the passage about a person who is fond of reading.

Extend Your Vocabulary

1. Reading
Put each of the following words in its correct place in the passage below:
fine, bookworm, browse, bibliography, footnotes, reviews, illustrations, borrow, glossary, published.
I love books. I love to read. I’m a real (a)____, and I love to (b)_____ in bookshops, just looking briefly at one book after another. I look at the (c)_____, the photos or drawings. If there are foreign or technical words in the book, I look at the (d)____ at the back for their meanings (unless they are explained in (e)____ at the bottom of the pages) and I look at the (f)____, also at the back, which is a list of other books on the same subject. And I use the library a lot, I (g)____ 2 or 3 books a week, and I have to pay a (h)____ if I return them late. Friends often recommend books to me, and I also read book (i)_____ in the newspapers. I don’t always agree with them, but anyway they let me know what new books are being (j)______.

2. Kinds of Books
Make two headings, fiction and non-fiction, and put these genres of books into the proper categories.
Humour, biography, history, mystery, novel, memoirs, horror, sci-fi, guidebook, drama, manual, cookbook, encyclopedia, romance, travel, poems, adventure, war story, philosophy, technical, thriller/detective novel (“Whodunit” [= “Who has done it?”]), atlas, dictionary, short story, self-help, autobiography, epic poem, nature, do-it-yourself.

Teacher: What kinds of books do you prefer to read? What emotions do you feel while reading this or that type of books? (hate, joy, love, fear, anger, adoration, admiration, sadness, delight, sympathy)
Do you agree that some books are dull and boring, while others are interesting and exciting?
What books can be called interesting and worth reading?
What is most important in a book?
Pupils: Fresh and original ideas.
Rich and interesting language.
Intriguing plot.
Author’s sense of humour.
Some shocking situations and events.
Detailed descriptions.
Teacher: Well done! I think that only a skillful writer can create very exciting books. What qualities should a good writer possess.
Pupils: An ability to portray life very truthfully.
An ability to make people laugh and cry.
An ability to amuse readers.
Skill with expressive language.
Great lyrical power.
Teacher: Right you are. And now, look through the names of British, American, and Russian writers. Match their names with the books they wrote.

Teacher: Name your favourite writer and tell us a few words about him.
Pupils: Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway.
Teacher: Create an advertisement for your favourite book.

Дети зачитывают и показывают листы с рекламой своих любимых книг.

Teacher: The rise of TV has been connected to the death of books. What can be done to rescue them? (стр. 20).
Read the following and guess what types of books they are.

Oliver Twist. Charles Dickens
Love Story. Erich Segal
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. R.L. Stevenson
Frankenstein. Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte
Three Men in a Boat. Jerome K. Jerome

1. This famous book has now been making people all over the world laugh for 100 years.
“I like work… I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.”
With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good plan to spend a holiday taking a boat up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning.

2. Alone in the world, and disliked by her aunt’s family, the heroine is sent away to school. Here she learns that a young girl, with neither money nor a family to support her, can expect little help from the world. She survives, but she wants more from life than simply to survive: she wants respect, and love. When she goes to work for Mr. Rochester, she hopes that she has found both at once. But the sound of strange laughter, late at night behind a locked door, warns her that her troubles are only beginning.

3. The doctor thinks he has found the secret of life. He takes parts from dead people and builds a new “man”. But this monster is so big and frightening that everyone runs away from him – even the doctor himself. The monster is like an enormous baby who needs love. But nobody gives him love, and he soon learns to hate. And because he is so strong, the next thing he learns is how to kill…

4. You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, that you also hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Doctor?

5. This is a story you won’t forget. Oliver meets Jenny. He plays sports, she plays music. He’s rich, and she’s poor. They argue and they fight, and they fall in love. So they get married, and make a home together. They work hard, they enjoy life, they make plans for the future. Then they learn that they don’t have much time left…

6. London in the 1830s was no place to be if you were a hungry ten-year-old boy, an orphan without friends or family, with no home to go to, and only a penny in your pocket to buy a piece of bread. But Oliver finds some friends – Fagin, the Artful Dodger, and Charley Bates. They give him food and shelter, and play games with him, but it is not until some days later that Oliver finds out what kind of friends they are, and what kind of “games” they play…

Teacher: And now I think everybody’s understood that books are our real friends and we should read as much as possible to increase our knowledge.

By N.L. Butakova,
School “Prioritet”