Разработка урока на тему "Школьный журнал"

Дата:_________________ Класс: _________ Урок:________

Тема: Об этом говорят и пишут.

Подтема: Школьный журнал.

Цели: активизация лексики, развитие навыков просмотрового и поискового чтения, аудирования и говорения.

Задачи: - научиться вести разговор о различных средствах массовой информации, журналах для подростков;

- развивать умения, составляющие лингвистическую компетенцию: языковую догадку, сопоставление языковых явлений в изучаемом и родном языках;

- развивать умения смыслового чтения: умения прогнозировать содержание текста по иллюстрациям и ключевым словам/началу текста, озаглавливать тексты, устанавливать логическую последовательность фактов, устанавливать смысловые соответствия при восприятии речи на слух;

- активизировать групповую работу и работу в паре;

- воспитывать активную жизненную позицию, креативность и эмпатию;

- воспитывать культуру поведения через освоение норм этикета: умение преподносить и реагировать на информацию, предлагать идею, выражать согласие/несогласие.

Материальное обеспечение урока: учебник Spotlight 7 класс, портфолио (дневник личных достижений), аудио диск для работы в классе, презентация, раздаточный материал.

Ход урока

1. The beginning of the lesson

T: Good morning, children. How are you?

P: Good morning, teacher. Fine, thanks. And you?

T: I’m very well, thanks. I am glad to see you.

P: We are glad to see you too.

T: As usual we start our lesson with some questions.

What is the date today?

What day of the week is it today?

Who is on duty today?

Who is absent?

P-1; P-2;…

T: In the lesson today we’re going to speak about magazines, about different types of magazines for teenagers where you can find real life stories, music, horoscopes, problem pages and other. So the theme of our lesson is “School magazines”

Now, look at the blackboard! You can see a front page of your school magazine there. Its headline is “School life”. The pupils present their articles to the class.

2. Speaking

Thank you for answers and now open your books on page 41. Look at the exercise 1, read and answer the questions.

Suggested Answer Key: ‘Shoot’ is for teenagers who like sport and especially football. It probably has articles about football matches and footballers. ‘Cosmo’ is for teenage girls. It probably has articles about fashion and beauty as well as gossip about stars. It also has problem pages and horoscopes.

3. Work with vocabulary

Ex.2, p.41

Matching titles to categories. Read the rubric and explain the task.

Go through the feature titles and the categories with Ss, eliciting/explaining any difficult words. Allow Ss time to complete the task in pairs. Go around the classroom monitoring Ss’ work and helping if necessary. Check Ss’ answers as a class. Ask Ss to think of other titles and discuss.

Answer Key 1 d 3 c 5 a 7 g 2b 4 e 6 f

Look at the screen. This is the presentation of teenager’s magazines:

4. Reading

Ex. 3, p.41

Reading for specific information. Ask Ss to read and listen to the text and to say what the underlined words refer to. Allow Ss time to do the task individually. Ss compare answers. Check answers.

Answer Key

They ― magazines

They ― teenage boys

They ― writers for teenage magazines

This ― the informal language used in the magazines

Ask Ss to explain the words in bold without the use of a dictionary, i.e. they can use synonyms, paraphrase etc. Elicit/Explain the meanings and write them on the board. Ss should copy the words into the vocabulary section of their notebooks.

Answer Key

popular (adj): fashionable

glossy (adj): shiny

instead (prep): as opposed to

attractive (adj): popular

5. Game

And now let’s play the game wordsearch

6. Relaxation pause

Look the video and let’s dance!

7. Grammar

T: We continue our lesson. Let’s repeat Past Continuous. When do we use it? Look at the screen (presentation)

P: We use Past continuous to describe: a) an action which was in progress at a stated time in the past. We don’t know when the action started or finished. At 1 o’clock this afternoon they were having coffee.

b) a past action which was in progress when another action interrupted it. He was cooking when there was a power cut.

c) two or more actions which were happening at the same time in the past. He was reading while she was sleeping.

d) background description to events in the story/ description.

They were travelling to London….

Past continuous

was (were) + Ving

Time expressions:

at 7 o’clock, at that moment, when…, while…, from…till, all day long

Now the work with cards

8. Game

Your next task is to do the crossword. Work in groups. Use the text on page 41and the word list to find out the words.

For the first team: For the second team:

1. Horoscope 1. Football

2. News 2. Painting

3. Beauty 3. Music

4. Competition 4. Boxing

5. Weather 5. Tourist

6. Surprised 6. Fashion

7. Sad 7. Lawyer

8. Worried 8. Horoscope

9. Interview 9. Chess

10. Advertisement 10. Television

9. Home task

Ex. 5, p. 41

Explain what Ss have to write. You can use the questionnaire below.

What kind of magazines do you read? .....

How many magazines do you buy every week? .....

What do you like most in teenage magazines? .....

Do you find the problem pages useful? .....

Do you discuss these magazines with friends? .....

10. Reflaxion

Today we talked about types of magazines. We know about music, sport, cultural and beauty magazines. We can hardly imagine our life without Mass-Media. Mass-media has changed our lives in many ways. It has brought many positive things but also many negative things. Work in small groups. Think hard!