Have you ever been to the Great Silk Road?

Grade: 7

Date: Checked up:

The theme of the lesson:

“Have you ever been to the Great Silk Road?”

School:

Mergen Secondary school

Teacher:

Uxikbayeva Aliya Bekaidarovna

Objectives:

1. To enrich pupil’s knowledge by this theme;

2. To develop pupil’s abilities in speech;

3. To educate the feelings of love towards our Motherland- Kazakhstan.

Type:

Mixed

Methods:

Audio-visual, presentation, demonstration.

Visual aids:

Slides with pictures, new words, cards, geographical Map of Kazakhstan (on paper).

Inter subject connection:

History, geography

Reflection

To give more information about the theme “Have you ever been to the Great Silk Road?”

Grammar Present perfect tense

Time

The procedure of the lesson

Teacher’s action

Pupil’s action

5 min.

3 min.

I Organization moment

II Dividing into 3 groups.

• Good morning, children! Today we have unusual lesson. It’s a lesson-journey. The motto of our lesson is “The poetry of Earth is never dead”.

• Today we’ll visit Central Asia along the Great Silk Road. The Silk Road crossed our country through Almaty, Talgar, Chimkent and went further.

• Let’s divide you to the group, I’ll put the shapes on the floor, you must choose it. Then who choose the similar shape, you will be sitting together.

The groups are called:

I- group: “Caravan” (with emblems)

II- group:“Great Steppe” (with emblems)

III -group: “Silk Way” (with emblems)

• Good morning!

“The poetry of Earth is never dead”.

• Make up a circle;

• Choose the shapes, sitting with groups.

5 min.

III Answer the questions:

1. Do you like to travel?

2. Why do you like to travel?

3. Have you ever been Central Asia?

4. Which cities did you visit?

5. What do you know about the Great Silk Road?

Answered the questions;

1 min.

IV Presentation

• That’s all. Now we’ll begin our journey along the Great Silk Road.

2 min.

V Main part

Slide 1

• Let’s show the presentation

and reading the text.

• Look at the map, let’s find and mark the main cities.

• Mark with line the cities which The Great Silk Road crossed.

St: 1.- The Great Silk Road is a creation

of mankind, transcontinental route that connected the ancient civilizations of West and East and served not only for trade, but for a religious, cultural, scientific and technical achievement exchange.

5 min.

Watch the video

Slide 2

Slide 3

Slide 4

Slide 5

Slide 6

Slide 7

VI Grammar revision

VII Conclusion

VII Reflection

• Now, you will be watch the video about Kazakhstan.

T: …please, tell me the function of Great Silk Road.

• Work with group

T: - Begin our journey by Almaty.

T:….,- What can you say about Silk Road and the city Almaty?

• The second station is Chimkent. …will speak about Chimkent.

• Let’s listen the information about Samarkand.

• If you visit Samarkand, you’ll see the Bibi-Khanym mosque. About this mosque there are many legends. One of this we’ll listen from…

What is the quality of Great Silk Road?

The time has passed. And now the necessity of trade plays an important part in people’s life too. But now we have easier ways of travel. Travelling by air is so fast, that it takes us only some hours to get any country you like. Travelling by train is interesting. You’ll see many interesting places by the way and you can meet many interesting people. You can travel by car, by bus or you can hitch-hike.

Present Perfect tense

Have you ever been…?

At the end I want to say that 2000 year caravans moved along the Great Silk Road. Not only goods were transported by the road but it became the road of culture, science, technology and religion.

Thank you for your activity. I give you excellent marks to active pupils.

T: - let’s watch your under the desk, I had prepared for you small my surprise!

Show the video

• Kazakhstan section of the Silk Road, moving from west to east, was from Shasha (Tashkent) through the pass Turbat in Isfidzhab and Sayram. The name of the ancient city has survived to this day.

• It is a settlement near Shymkent, in the center of which there are remins of a medieval fort, which was one of the largest centers of the Silk Road. Slaves, white cloths, guns, swords, copper and iron were exported from Isfidzhab.

• Caravans went from Isfidzhab to the east to Taraz city through Sharab and Budukhket.

St:2. - Silk Road began to function as a regular diplomatic and commercial artery. Caravan ways crossed Europe and Asia from the Mediterranean coasts to China. Caravans laden with Silk from China, spices and precious stones from India, silver goods from Iran, Byzantine clothes, Afroasian ceramics and other foods.

St:3. – Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan. It was the capital of Kazakhstan from 1929 till 1998. The word “apple” means “alma” in the Kazakh language. The real Almaty glory comes from famous “Silk Road” time, when the city was a major stop for passing caravans between East and West.

St:4.- It’s the third largest city in the country. First signs of Chimkent as a settled place go back to the 12 century and directly connected to the Silk Road. The Great Silk Road passed through the neighbor country Uzbekistan and one of the most beautiful city in the world Samarkand.

St:5. Samarkand is the second largest city in Uzbekistan. The city is in central position on the Asian Shadow of the Silk Road between the China and Europe. In 2001 UNESCO inscribed the 2750 year- old city on the world heritage list as Samarkand- Crossroads of Cultures.

St: 6. (Legende)

To protect the poster’s.