Открытый урок на тему: "Stages of Life".

Teacher: Korolko I.V.

Lesson plan.

Date: 25 Оctober

Level: Advanced. Form 11 “E”.

Theme: Stages of Life.

Type of the lesson:  Developing of listening and speaking skills.

Kind of the lesson: Practical.

Aims: Educational – to form Ss’ listening and speaking skills and habits,

using the new lexics and phrases verbs.

   Developing – to develop Ss’ thinking, Ss’ ability to compare, to

analyse, Ss’ ability to work in pairs and groups.

 Teaching – to love and value life, love their own families, respect

people of each stage of life.

Objective: SWBAT listen for specific information about life and speak about their relatives, using the new lexics and phrases verbs, to work in pairs and groups.

Items needed: a tape-recorder, CD disk, pictures, lists of papers, lists with lexical tasks and a song, felt-tip pens, cards with word-expressions; green and red cards.

Procedure.

I.    Greeting, duty’s report.

II.   Warm up.

1. Aimgiving: Childhood is the best years of our life, isn’t it? Can you prove it? (Possible Pp’ answers: Childhood is watching cartoons, riding a bike, flying a kite, eating ice cream and sweets, reading fairy-tales, swimming, swinging, playing hide-and-seek and hopscotch, drawing on the asphalt, playing toys, having freckles, hurt knees and elbows, pig-tails and pony tails, blowing soap-bubbles, chewing and blowing , skipping gum.) Childhood is one of the life stages and today we’ll speak about different stages of our life, listen to stories about people’s lives.

2. Matching: Let’s put the stages of life in the order that we reach them. (cards with words are on the board: infancy- childhood-adolescence-adulthood-middle age-old age) Can you write the years each stage begins and ends?

III. Pre-teach vocabulary.

1. Make up new words with similar meaning.

a baby – (an) nnifat (infant)

a young child – (a) etdlord (toddler)

a teenager – (an) estotcanle (adolescent)

children – skid (kids)

old people– (the) yellerd (elderly)

OAP – (a) onsepiren (pensioner)

1. Match the people with the stages of life.

adolescent, baby, OAP, child, young man/ woman, the elderly, kid, youth, toddle, teenager

(infancy- baby

childhood- toddler, child, kid

adolescence- adolescent, teenager, youth

adulthood- young man/ woman

old age- OAP, the elderly)

1. Group Activity. ”The Best Days of your Life …” (one copy of the worksheet with words related to the stages of life cut up per group of 3 students ) –T’s book page 129.

T: You are going to decide when things commonly happen in people’s lives and write them onto the grid. ( Place a pile of discussion cards on the desk.) Student A should pick up one card and decide which stage of life it best applies to. Student B should then challenge this view and put forward reason why it applies to another stage of life. Student C judges which is the most convincing argument and writes it on the grid. Eg: The card says ‘sleeping during the day’ and Student A expresses the view that this is related to infancy. Student B challenges this, saying that old people sleep all the time. They can discuss this further between them, each trying to convince Student C that theirs is the best argument. Finally, Student C makes a judgement and writes it in the grid.

Next, Student B takes a card, Student C agrees or challenges and Student A judges and writes. In whole class feedback, groups can compare their grids and discuss their views.

IV. Phrasal verbs. (Work in groups)

1. Match the phrasal verbs with their meanings/ definitions.

put up with sth/sb -

set sth up -

hold sth/sb up -

do sth up -

own up (to sth) -

get sb down -

cut down on sth -

put sth down to -

put sb down -

look down on sb –

For the first week group: tolerate, confess, establish (a business), delay, reduce, renovate, depress, criticize, attribute, think that you are superior to;

For the second strong group:-to accept unpleasant behavior or situation, although you don’t like it; -to start a company or organization; -to make something or someone slow or late; -to repair or decorate an old building that it looks attractive; -to admit that you have done something wrong; -to make someone feel unhappy; -to reduce the amount of something; -to think that something is caused by something else; -to make someone feel stupid or unimportant by criticizing them; -to think that you are better than someone else.

1. Rewrite the sentences using a phrasal verb from the box:

(bring sb down, do sth up, hold sb up, look down on sb, own up to sth, put up with sth, put sth down to, set sth up)

1. I won’t tolerate this kind of behaviour!

2. He attributes his success to hard work.

3. He established a company to import Polish food.

4. This rain is depressing me.

5. It will cost a fortune to renovate this house.

6. He thinks he’s superior to everybody!

7. I hope I’m not delaying you.

8. She confessed to having lied.

VI. Work with the text

1. Complete the text with the words from the box:

(be born, be brought up, be buried, change, gain, get married, grow up, leave, move, pass away, retire, settle down, start, thirties, toddler)

My granddad , Harry Ellis,¹____ in London in 1925. His father died while he was still a ²____, so he was³______by my great –grandmother. When Harry was five, they⁴ ____house and from that time Harry⁵ ____ in the country. He ⁶____ school at the age of fourteen, without ⁷____any qualifications, and got a job on a farm . He fell in love with Shirley, the farmer’s daughter, and after a short engagement

they⁸ ____. When they had saved up enough money to buy a small house, they ⁹____ and ¹⁰____ a family. When Harry was in his¹¹ ____, the family moved to Manchester and Harry¹² ___ jobs. He went to work in a car factory and stayed there until he was 60, when he ¹³____.Sadly, he¹⁴ ____last year and¹⁵ ____ in the graveyard of the church where he and Shirley got married.

VII. Check up the home task.

Pupils are reading their compositions on the theme “ The Biography of my Grandfather (Grandmother, or any Relative)”.

VIII. Listening-comprehension.

T: Listen to Gwen Jones talking to Gareth, her grandson, about her life.

(a tape-recorder T.1.14) Choose the correct answers (ex.4 p. 27)

IX. A Song “That’s life” by Robbie Williams (T. 42)

That’s life

That’s life, that’s what people say.

You are riding’ high in April,

Shot down in May.

But I know I’m gonna change that tune,

When I’m back on top in June.

That’s life, funny as it seems.

Some folks get their kicks,

Steppin’ on dreams:

But I don’t let it get me down,

‘ Cause this ol’ world keeps spinnin’ around.

I’ve been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate,

A poet, a pawn and a king.

I’ve been up and down and over and out

And I know one thing:

Each time I find myself flat on my face

I pick myself up and get back in the race.

That’s life, I can’t deny it,

I thought of quitting,

But my heart just won’t buy it.

If I didn’t think it was worth a try,

I’d roll myself up in a big ball and die.

X. Challenge!

(Pupils are given lists with notes)

T: Write six sentences about yourself at the six different stages of life. Use the past, present or future, as appropriate.

During infancy, …….. .

As a child, …….. .

During adolescence, …….. .

As an adult, …….. .

In middle age, …….. .

In old age, …….. .

XI. Wrap Up.

1. Evaluation.

2. Home task: to write a composition on the theme “ The Life of my Grandfather (Grandmother, or any Relative)” (ex.5 p. 27)