Конспект урока английского языка «Our Environment is a Big Mess?»

Урок английского языка «Our Environment is a Big Mess?

Учитель Архипова В.Ю.

Класс 10

Тема урока: Прогресс и экология.

Место темы в календарно-тематическом планировании: УЧЕБНИК __ «Enjoy English » учебник для 10ых классов ОУ/ Биболетова М.З., Добрынина Н.В., Трубанёва Н.Н. Обнинск: Титул, 2012/ 3-я учебная четверть, Unit 3. Civilization and progress, урок №18.

Тип урока: Урок обобщения и систематизации знаний.

Цели урока

Основные коммуникативные:

• совершенствовать навыки монологической и диалогической речи с применением тематической лексики;

• проверить умение учащихся высказывать свою мысль и делать выводы в письменной форме.

Сопутствующие:

• совершенствовать лексико-грамматических навыков;;

• совершенствовать умение учащихся воспринимать на слух небольшие монологические высказывания по теме.

Развивающие:

• развивать логическое мышление и внимание учащихся;

• развивать коммуникативные навыки при работе в группах;

• развивать умение вести дискуссию, высказывать свое мнение, обобщать и анализировать мнения других.

Воспитательно-образовательные:

• уделить особое внимание актуальности данной проблемы в повседневной жизни;

• сформировать собственное мнение учащихся по решению данной проблемы

Применяемые технологии:

• коммуникативно-ориентированное обучение;

• личностно-ориентированное обучение;

• информационные технологии;

• проектная методика.

ТСО:

• компьютер, проектор;

• магнитофон, диски;

проекты учащихся в программах Word и MS Power Point по теме урока.

Ход урока.

1. Приветствие.

Teacher: - Good-afternoon, students! I’m glad to see you. Sit down, please. How are you getting on?

 2. Введение в тему урока.

Teacher: First of all, I’d like to show you a fragment of a well - known Jackson’s clip “The Earth Song” that reflects the topic we have been discussing for several weeks.
How did you find it? Now, look at the board. Will you be so kind to read the title of the lesson?
Teacher: As you might have guessed we are continuing to discuss environmental problems and the ways to solve them. I’d like you to share with your peers and me (if you don’t mind) your ideas and points of view. We are going to read a text and do the task , to listen to your information about environmental organizations, to interview your classmates.

3. Совершенствование навыков устной речи.

Let’s start. What disasters have you noticed in the videoclip?

Pupils:

Кilling of animals, air and land pollution, wars, cutting of the rainforests, earthquakes, hurricanes.

Teacher: These disasters were shown in the clip. What other urgent ecological problems can you name, we have read about them in the text books.

Pupils: ecological dangerous tendencies:

• Water contamination,

• acid rains,

• deforestation,

• traffic congestion,

• noise pollution,

• destruction of the ozone layer.

Teacher: What groups can you divide these problems into?

Pupils: Natural and man-made

Teacher: So you’ve mentioned natural and man-made catastrophes that threaten the modern world. Arrange them according to the following question: Say which are the most/ least dangerous and explain you thought.

E.g. Pupil 1.

Deforestation. To be on the safe side, deforestation alters the amount of water in the soil, and the groundwater and moisture in the atmosphere.

Pupil 2.

Global warming is a change in climate which is expected to lead to an increased intensity of draught and potential land degradation; sea-level rise from melting glaciers and termal expansion of the oceans; diminished fresh water supplies; loss of biodiversity and habitats; and an increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events.

4. Релаксация (музыка)

Teacher: Now we’ll make an imaginary trip. Close your eyes and relax. Now think of a place that is special for you... It might be in your backyard or in your neighbourhood or a place you go on holidays every year. It’s a place where you enjoy being... Think about the smells of that place... the sounds you hear...the things you see around you...Pay attention to how you feel in your special place...

 Now imagine that your special place changes...- if your place has water in it, imagine that all of a sudden the water is completely gone. If your special place has no water, imagine that it now has lots and lots of water... Imagine what your special place is like now - what sounds do you   hear? - What do you see around you? ...Think how your special place looks now and remember what you see and feel.

5. Развитие навыков монологической речи.

Open your eyes and tell me please: What was your special place like with and without water?

Suppose you had the power to choose which way to keep your special place - either with water or without it?  Which way would you choose?

(Pupils describe their imaginary places.)

Teacher: If you look green, you’re probably not feeling very well. But if the Earth is green, it’s a healthy planet. But when you are “green” it means that you are environmentally friendly. You were to interview your classmates, let’s see how “green” you are.

6. Совершенствование навыков диалогической речи (ИНТЕРВЬЮ) см. Приложение 1.

Pupils tell the results of the interview.

Teacher: You don’t have to act on a grand scale to make a difference. Turn off your faucet while you’re brushing your teeth or recycle your newspaper. Little things can have an impact on a global scale. What can you personally do to improve the situation on our planet? What are the tips for rescuing the planet? Work in groups and brainstorm the ideas. You have two minutes to fulfil this task.

Pupils:

Group 1.

reduce waste; avoid using fuel; eat chemical-free food; protect the countryside; recycle used material; avoid polluting the air; stop the construction of roads; discourage the use of artificial fertilizers.

Group 2

walk, don’t drive; turn down the heating; use less water; shop smart; plant a tree;  recycle waste; avoid packaging; join the movement.

Group 3

turn off lights, TVs when you leave the room; recycle paper products; save empty cans, plastics and glass for recycling; don’t let your dog or cat run loose; don’t dump litter (rubbish) in the seas, rivers, on beaches; become a faucet watcher, repair your leaking faucets; never buy a spray with CFC’s; stop dry cleaning; buy things in large amounts (bulk buying means less packaging).

7. Дискуссия по теме с обсуждением в группах проектов учащихся.

Teacher: By the way, what made M. Jackson to create this clip?

Pupils: He might be a member of an ecological organization.

Teacher: In the text-books we have read about several environmental organizations such as Tidy Britain Group, Friends of the Earth, Green Peace. But they are not the only ones that take care of our planet.  What ecological organizations do you know? What information have you found? Tell us some words about them.

Pupil 1.

Asian Pacific Environment

Its mission is to unify communities to achieve multicultural environmental justice. Its goals are: collaborate with community-based organizations, environmental groups and public agencies to identify priorities and develop policy agendas that achieve goals of environmental justice; provide activities that inform and nurture leadership to articulate an environmental justice perspective.

Pupil 2.

VIP (Volunteers in Parks)

They are men and women who work side-by-side in partnership with National Park Service employees. They play an ever-increasing role in the national parks, you may be surprised at the variety of jobs that they do. Here is just a sampling:

- give environmental education programs to children;

- pick up litter along roads, trails, seashores, rivers;

- build fences, paint buildings;

- assist resource managers and researchers by making wildlife counts, planting trees, and taking part in other projects.

Pupil 3.

GEF ( Global Environment Facility) and its SGP ( Small Grants Programme)

It was founded in 1991. It supports activities of non-government and community-based organizations in developing countries that conserve bio-diversity, mitigate climate change and protect international waters while generating sustainable livelihood. SGP currently has 63 participating countries in five regions of the developing world  (Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe/ Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Caribbean).  It helps to conserve bio-diversity, to reduce the risks of climate change, to stop land degradation and reduce water pollution. For example,  SGP is supporting conservation and restoration of wild apple forests at the foothills of the Alatau Mountains in Kazakhstan; is underwriting low impact aquaculture in Mexico’s Bay of Alestun, a protected area and noted bird habitat. Its mission is to make the connection between local and global environmental challenges and between national and international resources.

Teacher: We have discussed the ways to avoid ecological problems and what organizations exist to do that. We are going to read a text where people are interviewed about the environment. You have ten minutes to fulfil the task.

7. Заключительные выводы учащихся .

Teacher: Now I’d like you to work in groups again.

Think about environmental concerns and then note down

• group 1 - 5 things you wish hadn’t happened

• group 2 - 5 things you wish weren’t happening

• group 3 - 5 things you wish would happen

8. Подведение итогов урока.

Teacher: Thank you for the participation in the discussion. Each point of view has the right to exist. Definitely you worked hard.
Write down your home task. You can choose:

1. Write an ecological programme for our school.

2. Write “The Declaration Of The Earth Of Its Rights”. What can the Earth write to mankind.

Good-bye, students.

Приложение № 1.

Interview your classmates. Tell them their individual results. Calculate the percentage for the whole group.

	YES	NO
1. Do you clean teeth with the tap running?
2. Do you leave the door open when you leave a room?
3. Do you leave the light on when you leave an empty room?
4. Do you often eat more than you need?
5. Do you throw the kitchen waste in the dustbin?
6. Do you watch TV more than two hours every day?
7. Do you use lots of sprays in your home?
8. Do you throw empty bottles in the dustbin?
9. Do you use a new plastic bag every time you go shopping?
10. Do you buy food which is sold in packets, plastic bottles or tins?

Results:

1-3 “No”s - STOP! It’s time to change your attitude towards the environment.

4-6 “No”s - Careful! You are on the right path, but you can still do better.

7-10 “No”s - Thank you for helping to look after the environment.

Приложение № 2

Лексический модуль по теме “Environmental Protection”.

Acid rains - when harmful gases from cars and power plants are released into the air and fall back to the Earth with rain or snow.

Atmosphere - the layer of gases surrounding the Earth; another word for air.

Biodegradable – anything that eventually decomposes and becomes part of the Earth again, like paper, or apple cores.

Bio-diversity - the variety of different types of plant and animal life in a particular region.

Carbon dioxide - a gas produced when animals breathe out or any material containing carbon is burned.

CFCs - short for chloro-fluoro-carbons (gases used in refrigerators, fire extinguishers, air conditioners).

Compromise (v) - have a harmful effect on something, spoil something.

Conservation - the wise use of the environment.

Сontamination - making something dirty, polluted or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste.

Deforestation - the process of removing the trees from an area of land.

Disposable - something that is designed to be thrown away after you have used it

Degradation - a situation or condition that makes someone feel ashamed and makes people loose respect for them; the process of changing into a worse condition.

Drought - a long period of time when there is little or no rain and crops die.

Dump - a place where large amounts of waste are taken.

Ecology - the study of organisms and their environment.

Ecosystem - a community of plants and animals living together, types of ecosystems are arid, semi-arid, coastal, marine, freshwater, forest, mountain.

Eco-terrorist - someone who tries to stop or damage organisations that cause harm to the environment.

Eco - tourism - the business of creating and selling holidays that give people the chance to learn about a natural environment and cause as little damage to the environment as possible.

Endangered species - animals and plants in danger of becoming extinct.

Environment - all the surroundings of an organism, including other living things, climate, air, water, soil.

Environment benign products - products that will do no harm to the environment.

Extinct - when animals and plants die out and are gone from the Earth forever.

Fertilizer - anything from compost to cow manure that helps plants grow.

Flood - a large amount of water that covers an area that was dry before.

Fossil fuels - fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas that were formed from plants and animals buried millions of years ago.

GHG - (methane) is a greenhouse gas 21 times more harmful than CO2, utilizing methane emission would be a step toward reducing global warming.

Global warming - an increase in the Earth’s temperature, caused by a build-up of “greenhouse gases” in the atmosphere.

Greenhouse effect - when gases from factories, electric power plants, and cars trap the sun’s heat and warm up the Earth.

Habitat - an area that provides an animal or plant with food, water, shelter, living space.

Hurricane - a violent storm with extremely strong winds and heavy rain.

Land fragmentation - the process of breaking into many separate parts

Mitigation - a reduction in the harmful effects of something

Noise pollution - dangerous or annoying levels of noise.

Landfill - a place where garbage is buried underground.

ODS - ozone-depleting substances.

Organic - made up of plant or animal materials; “organic gardening” is using natural fertilizers or insecticides instead of chemicals.

Oxygen - a gas that makes up about 21% of the Earth’s atmosphere; all living things need it to survive.

Ozone layer - a layer of gas high in the sky which protects us from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays of the sun that causes skin cancer and crop damage.

Poachers - people who catch fish or kill game illegally.

Pollutants - man-made wastes that lower the quality of water and air.

Precycle (v) - to refuse to buy things that can’t be reused, like polystyrene foam containers and disposable diapers.

Rainforests - tropical evergreen woodlands that receive at least 100 inches of rain a year, home to more that half the world’s plants and animals.

Recycle (v) - to use over and over again.

Refine (v) - make purer and/or better

Renewable resource - a naturally occurring supply of something that does not get used up, like windpower or solar energy.

Rubbish - things that you throw away because they are no longer useful such as old food, paper, plastic.

Sewage - solid and liquid waste from bathtubs, toilets, and sinks.

Solar energy - energy that comes from the sun.

Smog - icky, brown air pollution that comes from cars and factories; it makes the air unsafe for people, animals, and plants to breathe.

Solid waste - unwanted, discared material that doesn’t contain enough liquid to flow freely.

Threatened species - plants and animals that still exist in some places, but have died out elsewhere.

Toxic - another word for ‘poison’.

Toxicity - level of harmful substances in something.

Traffic congestion - a situation in which a place is crowded with vehicles.

Wastewater - water carrying dissolved or floating solids from homes, farms, businesses or industries.