People the great communicators

                                                                            Тильманбетова Рабига Кенесбаевна

                                                                            Гимназия №40   г. Тараз  Казахстан

                                                                            Урок английского языка  в 8 классе

Theme  of  the  lesson: People the great communicators.

Aim :  to provide  practice  in  reading  for  gist  and  for  details.

Objectives: Teaching – to develop   students’ reading  and  speaking  skills.

Developing -  to  develop  students’  imagination  and  interest to reading, and their skills  of  comparing  and  summing  up

Educational - to  teach  students   to  value  friendship

Equipment: textbooks, handouts, a tape recorder.

                                                      Outline:

I. Warm up: Guess the word hearing its definition: a written  piece of information you send to another person (message), the process of speaking or writing by which people exchange information – (communication), to make people do something – ( persuade), you say something that you know is not true – (lie), a large group of people who have the same traditions, customs and laws- (society), very large, without ends- (infinite), in one word- magazines, newspapers, TV,  radio - (mass media).

II. Presentation:

1. Headway Pre-Intermediate Student’s Book- exercise 2 p.9. : ( salt, cold, read, slowly, nice, on, always, took, under, brought, drink, album):
2. Give two meanings of the words : book, kind, can, mean, flat, play, train, ring (use dictionary) .  Listen to some sample answers T.1.3.
3. Exercise 4 find the objects that you don’t know in English, translate it using your vocabulary.

Communication. How many different ways can people communicate? What ways of communication do you know? Or how can we communicate with each other? How do you like to communicate?

1. Ways of Communication:

1. Talk face to face
2. Talk over the telephone
3. Talk  over the mobile phone
4. Through fax
5. With the help of the Internet
6. Writing a letter
7. Sending  an e-mail
8. Watching TV and listening to the radio
9. Smoke signals
10. Sign language
11. Gestures
12. Mime
13. Braille
14. Morse code
15. Different other ways due to agreement

2. Mime to the partners:

1. Do you want a cup of coffee?
2. What time is it?
3. I’m tired.
4. Have you got any money?
5. I like your haircut.
6. I’ll phone you at 7.
7. Can you swim?
8. I’ve got a headache.
9. I’m cold.
10. I’m hot.
11. I like it. It’s good.
12. I don’t like it.

III. Follow up: 1. Look at the pictures on page 10 and 11.  Read the title of the text. “People the great communicators”. Predict what this text can be about.

2. New words:     communicate – communication – communicators, a message – an  e-mail, photography – pictures, exchanging – giving to each other, whales – a big sort of fish that push water from its back, anger – angry, compared to – in comparison to, poetry – poems, promises, explain, persuade, tell the truth, tell lies, sense, technologies, development, great – wonderful,  society – group, hieroglyphics, philosophy, alphabet, transform, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Europe, ancient – old,  unique, huge – big, large; influence on society, infinite –with no ends.

3. Read the first sentences of each part of the text and tell me what each part of the text can be about.

4. Read the headings to the paragraphs and match the headings with an appropriate paragraph.

5. Read the third paragraph and match the pictures on p.11 to each of the four ancient societies in paragraph three.

6. Read the text and find the answers to the questions: Which animals are mentioned in the text? What  can they do? What is special about human’s communication? What can we do? Which four forms of media were mentioned in the last paragraph? What is good and bad about information technology today?

7. Home task: the retelling of the text.