What Is the Index Liborum Prohibitorum?

What Is the Index Liborum Prohibitorum?

Olga Tasenyuk

ELT of HC

Moscow

AIMS

• Grammar: Peculiarities of the Passive Voice
• Communication: speaking on the topic
• Vocabulary: enriching
• Skill: writing, speaking and reading

• Pronunciation: improving phonetics
• Reviewing: revising the material on the topic Reading
• Cultural: learning new facts about the Inquisition.

Development of the Lesson

• LEAD-IN

Organizing the group

Greeting

Immersion

Information about the aims

AIMS

• Grammar: Peculiarities of the Passive Voice
• Communication: speaking on the topic
• Vocabulary: enriching
• Skill: writing, speaking and reading

• Pronunciation: improving phonetics
• Reviewing: revising the material on the topic Reading
• Cultural: learning new facts about the Inquisition.

Lead-in

Warm-up 1

Brainstorming: “A book that is worth burning is

worth reading” . Why?

If people in power are afraid of some new or different opinion or dangerous ideas, they prefer to destroy books they contain them.

Warm-up 2 Phonetic Drilling

• [kən’tein]
• [di`stroi]
• [,inkwi`zi∫n]
• [wə: θ]
• [reə]΄
• [΄na:tsi]
• [ob`djekt]
• [re`fə:]
• [l Λf]
• [ə: θ]

• to contain
• to destroy
• Inquisition
• to be worth doing
• rare
• Nazi
• object
• to refer
• to laugh at
• Earth

Warm-up 3 Why books are worth reading?

• Books contain new ideas.
• Books can wake up people.
• Books are the memory of he nation.
• You can learn a lot from the books.
• Books give a lot of information.
• Books are written in different languages.

ex.8, p.125

Grammar Revision

Why books are burned?

• to destroy the national spirit
• because they wake people up
• because they contain dangerous ideas
• because they contain new or different ideas

DYNAMIC PAUSE

MAIN ACTIVITY

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Peculiarities of the Past Passive Voice

In the Passive Voice structures the preposition

saves its place after the verb. The most common

verbs with prepositions are:

to send for, to object to, to insist on, to refer to,

to laugh at, to listen to, to wait for.

e.g.: Somebody sent for Lena. ----

Lena was sent for .

p. 126

Feedback WRITING

Do ex. 1, p. 127

Anticipated answers:

My little sister was laughed at .

The librarian is being waited for .

This book is often referred to .

The song being listened to .

The doctor has been sent for .

That book was looked for last week.

DYNAMIC PAUSE

PRE-READING ACTIVITY Match the name of a famous person and his discovery

1. Vasco da Gama

a) the Earth goes round the sun

2. Magellan

b) the sea route to India

3. Columbus

c) the world is round

4. Copernicus

d) America

PRE-READING ACTIVITY Match the name of a famous person and his discovery

1.Vasco da Gama

2. Magellan

3. Columbus

4. Copernicus

a) the Earth goes round the sun

b) the sea route to India

c) the world is round

d) America

READING 1 (Silent reading) SPEAKING (Back report)

p. 128 “GREAT DISCOVERIES”. Read and answer the questions.

Work in three groups: 2 questions for each group.

• … in 1184.

2. To fight against heretics.

3. It is an opinion against Church.

4. It’s a list of books banned for

Catholics.

5. A young Polish astronomer.

6. The Earth isn’t the centre of

the universe. It revolves round

the sun.

1.When did the Inquisition

start?

2. What is it for?

3. What is heresy?

4. What is the Index Liborum Prohibitorum?

5. Who was Nicolas Copernicus?

6. What was the idea that the Catholic Church didn’t like?

READING 2. SPEAKING (Back report)

Read the text on p. 129 for detail . Say True or False .

• Students burned books because they were too difficult and boring.
• Students who burned the books were punished.
• Only one German university burned books.
• The Nazis didn’t burn books that were written by German writers.
• Nowadays Germany is a democratic country.

READING 2. SPEAKING (Back report)

Read the text on p. 129 for detail . Say True or False .

• Students burned books because they were too difficult and boring. FALSE
• Students who burned the books were punished. FALSE
• Only one German university burned books. FALSE
• The Nazis didn’t burn books that were written by German writers. FALSE
• Nowadays Germany is a democratic country. FALSE

FOLLOW UP

• Summing up
• Reflection

• Results. Marks
• Do you like this lesson?

Why? What new have

you learned?

• Home Task

• Ex. C, p. 130 (in written),

• Ending of the lesson

ex. D, p. 130 (orally)

SEE YOU LATER

THANK YOU FOR WORK