Молодёжные движения.

Living on the edge

Цели:

• Тренировка произносительных навыков.

• Изучение новой лексики по теме «Молодёжные движения».

• Ознакомление учащихся со словообразованием (отрицательные префиксы).

• Развитие навыков чтения и говорения.

• Совершенствование речевых навыков на основе прочитанного.

Ход урока

I Introduction

II Warming-up

T: Answer the following questions:

• What can you say about youth’s problems?

• Have youth movements become important factors in the life of different countries?

• What does the youth organization Greenpeace deal with?

• Is there a branch of Greenpeace in Russia?

• Can you say that it is only youth organization?

• Do young people help elderly people?

• Do some groups of young people in America help released prisoners to start their life a new?

• Do any young people in Russia do the same?

• Are sport clubs characterized youth organizations in the USA and in UK?

• Are there any special youth clubs in our country?

III Phonetic Activities.

1. T: listen and repeat the poem by Charles Kingsley

Young and old

When all the world is young, lad,

And all the trees are green,

And every goose a swan, lad,

And every lass a queen;

Then hey for boot and horse, lad,

And round the world away;

Young blood must have its course, lad,

And every dog his day.

1. Read and repeat these words

Environment narrow minded

Incident to make a statement

Straight edge to take their beliefs

Political issues to extremes

To get one’s message access tension

Like-minded friends notorious

Baggy

IV Lexical Activities

1. T: Translate the phrases.

Молодёжные организации - youth organizations

Политические проблемы – political issues

Быть агрессивным по отношению к различной вере и различному образу жизни – to be aggressive towards different beliefs and lifestyles

Люди единомышленники – like-minded people

Человек с предрассудками – a narrow-minded man

Добиться понимания – to get the message across

1. T: Explain these words in English

Environment

P1: I think this word means the air, water and land in which people and plants live.

Crew

P2: All the people working on a ship, plane.

Notorious

P3: Famous for something bad.

Baggy

P4: Not tight

V Grammar activities.

1. Word building

The words with negative meaning can be formed from adjectives beginning with the letters l, p, r.

1. Ex. 4 (B), p.26.

T: form the opposites for the following words and group them according to their prefixes.

Impolite, impatient, impossible, impure, unusual, unfortunate, unfair, ungrateful, unfashionable, unfamiliar, ineffective, intolerant.

1. Ex.6, p. 26 (Word formation)

T: copy and complete the following table in your vocabulary notebooks.

VI Reading (Ex2 (A,B), p. 24,25)

1. Pre-reading activities.

T: You are going to read an article about a youth group. Read the information to the article about straight edge teenagers and put ticks by the expressions, which you think describe their lifestyle.

• Participate in animal rights protests

• Follow a vegetarian diet

Are aggressive towards different beliefs and lifestyles

Hurt people physically

• Have a tidy appearance

• Have tattooes and prierced earlobes

1. Reading

T: read the article and check whether you were right. Then match these titles to the paragraphs

1. Post-reading activities

T: Answer the following questions.

• Can narrow minded people accept ideas different from their own?

• Are these groups friendly towards each other?

• Is fashion important to straight edge kids?

• Are like-minded people those who have similar opinions?

T: Discuss in pairs the following questions:

• Why can’t straight edgers agree within their group?

• Why are extreme straight-edgers aggressive towards other people?

• What does a typical straight-edger look like?

Answers:

P1: They can’t agree within their group because they take their beliefs to different extremes.

P2: Extreme straight-adgers are impatient with anyone who drinks or smoke or does not fit in to their strict philosophy.

P3: As far as I know, a typical straight-adger has a tidy appearance, wear baggy trousers and T-shirts. He has pierced earlobes with large holes. He wears chains and heavy chain necklaces.

P4: The reasons may be the lack of any other way to express themselves, need to show their solidarity with like-minded friends and get their message across.

VII Speaking (Ex. 7, H.26)

T: Discuss these questions and report your ideas to the class:

• Would you like to belong to a teenage group? Why/Why not?

• Why do people join different groups and movements?

• Does belonging to a group help to express one’s individuality or not?

Examples:

P1: I say, Ann! Would you like to belong to a teenage group?

P2: Of course not! I wouldn’t like to belong to any teenage group. To my mind, only narrow-minded people can be in these groups. And narrow-minded people aren’t likely to accept other people’s ideas. These teenagers are intolerant to others!

P1: What do you think? Why do people join different groups and movements? What do they want?

P2: They want to be understood. They want to get their message across.

P1: Are these groups friendly towards each other?

P2: American extreme straight-edgers are rather aggressive towards different beliefs and lifestyle.

P1: Does belonging to a group help to express one’s individuality or not?

P2: Yes, teenagers make a statement with their appearance and use it to show that they are different.

VIII The conclusion of the lesson.

Homework: ex. 3,4, p.26.