The English We Speak: Fluency Tips

МБОУ «Шеморданский лицей Сабинского района РТ»

                      Открытое внеклассное занятие 

                  по английскому языку в 7 классе

                      «The English We Speak: Fluency Tips»

   Учитель английского языка Владимирова Л. М.

Внеурочное занятие «Английский, на котором мы говорим», проведенное в 7 классе относится к серии занятий с использованием образовательных программ BBC Learning English.Учащиеся проявляют большой интерес к изучению языка, что послужило основой для развития данной внеурочной  деятельности, проходившей в форме беседы.

Цель:

-ознакомить учащихся с различными видами деятельности, для наиболее успешного овладения иностранным языком.

Задачи:

-создание условий для формирования мышления о необходимости изучения иностранных языков;

-воспитание интереса и стремления к самостоятельному изучению языка через образовательные программы BBC Learning English;

-способствовать активизации в речи ранее изученного и формируемого на данном занятии лексико-грамматического материала.

Занятие имело коммуникативный характер. Все аспекты языка изучались взаимосвязано – фонетика, лексика, грамматика. Содержательность занятия определяется подбором приемов и упражнений, точно соответствующих поставленным задачам.

Для достижения поставленных целей мною были использованы различные методы обучения: создание ситуаций опирающихся на жизненный опыт учащихся, метод активности, наглядности. Я постаралась дать четкую установку перед каждым этапом занятия и подводить итог каждого этапа. На мой взгляд, занятие прошло живо, учащиеся реагировали быстро и работали с  увлечением. Их интерес поддерживался на всем протяжении занятия благодаря частой смене видов деятельности. Психологическая атмосфера была благоприятная, чувствовался рабочий настрой учащихся, их серьёзное отношение.
Я считаю, что цели данного мероприятия достигнуты, план выполнен полностью.

The English We Speak: Fluency Tips

Слайд №1. The English We Speak.

-Hello my friends! Good morning dear guests. Welcome to “The English We Speak”.

Every lesson I ask you a different question. Today you can have wishes. What will you wish for? Hear what people in London say then join the conversation and express yourself.

VIDEO ‘Three Wishes’ (BBC World Service/ Learning English/General & Business English/Express English)

Слайд №2. What things did people wish for?

-Well, what things did people wish for?

Pupils’ answers.

F.ex.  Some people wished for world peace. One woman wished for happy family life. She’d like to spend more time with her children.

-Now it’s your turn to wish for smth. What would you wish for?

Слайд №3. What would you wish for?

Pupils’ answers. F.ex.  As for me, I wish for a pet and I suppose it would be a silver poodle. My parents promised to buy it for my birthday. My second wish is visiting the UK someday.

I want my parents to be healthy. And I’d like to have a pen-friend from the UK. I’d like to be a successful person in the future. My dream is to be an international journalist some day.I wish I could have a well-paid job in the future and travel abroad with my close friends. Firstly, I wish I could speak English fluently. Secondly, I’d like to have an iPod.

-I hope your wishes come true. Most of your wishes are connected with the knowledge of foreign language. Foreign language competence increases your opportunities. There are many ways of learning languages. And one of them is BBC Learning English. Do you like the Educational Computer Programs from BBC Learning English?

Слайд №4.BBC Learning English

Of course we do, they are very useful and enjoyable. They help us to master our English, keep it up, and speak fluently.

-Now a question from Roberto in Brazil. He’d like to know about fluency tips. He asks to help him speak English fluently. Listen to the extract from Susan Fern’s answers.

Слайд №5. A question from Roberto in Brazil (BBC World Service/ Learning English/Grammar, Vocabulary & Pronunciation/ Ask about English/Speaking & Writing- Fluency)

AUDIO Susan Fearn answers

-So, fluency tips. What is the first rule?

Pupils’ answers. F.ex  The first rule of becoming more fluent is to listen, not just to native speakers but also good users of English as a second or may be a third language.

-Well, listen to the person «Working Abroad». Adam is a user of English.

Слайд №6. Working Abroad

AUDIO (BBC World Service/Learning English/General & Business English/Working Abroad)

-Listen to Adam.

-Do the quiz.

-What is the next tip about the fluency according to Susan Fern?

Pupils’ answers. F.ex  If I am not mistaken, it’s having confidence, not worrying too much, use English with yourself, inside your head, and practise, practise and practise as you tell us.

-Practice makes perfect.Let’s practise then.

BBC World Service/Learning English/General & Business English/Welcome to London/Unit 4: Shopping/Buying some jeans.

-Welcome to London. 'Welcome to London' is an English language course allowing users to practise their skills. Follow two characters John and Fiona. Fiona is trying on a pair of jeans in a clothes shop. Listen to the conversation.

-Complete the conversation (you need to select the one correct sentence from each set of four options.)

-Using these shopping phrases make up your own conversation and act it out, please.

Слайд №7. Shopping phrases

-When asking for items in a shop such as jeans, sunglasses and trainers you have to ask for a 'pair' of them. This request involves several uses of the schwa sound.

Слайд №8. Schwa sound

-Schwa-what is it?

 Pupils’ answers. F.ex 

Schwa is the most common sound in the English language. It occurs only in unstressed syllables. Any vowel letter can be pronounced as schwa and the pronunciation of a vowel letter can change depending on whether the syllable in which it occurs is stressed or not. The phonemic symbol for this sound is  .

-Why is the schwa very important in the English language?

 Pupils’ answers. F.ex 

It helps spoken English to sound more natural and fluent; it helps to give English its rhythm.                                                         

Слайды №9, 10. Schwa exercises

Exercise 1

Look at the words below and decide where in the word the schwa sound occurs.

doctor                             banana

……………………………….

Exercise 2

In this exercise, look at these sentences and decide where the schwa sound occurs.

1.   It’s for you.

………………………………………

10. We need more financial support.

-So, what is very important for good spoken communication?

Pupils’ answers. F.ex

Pronunciation and stress.

-This Pronunciation Quiznet can help you practise your English.

BBC World Service/Learning English/Quizzes/Quiznet /Stress Patterns.       

-Well, guys, can we improve our English by reading? If yes, in what ways?

Pupils’ answers. F.ex Of course we can. By reading we can enlarge our vocabulary and become a fluent speaker.

-Meet the Flatmates-online soap opera for learners of English.

Слайд №11. Meet the Flatmates

 -At home you’ve read about the Flatmates characters. And now try to describe them.

Pupils’ answers. F.ex

Well guys, watching films also help in learning English.

VIDEO ‘Secret Santa’ (BBC World Service/Learning English/Flatmates)

-What are they going to do? Will the flatmates all agree to spend 10 pounds?

Pupils’ answers.

-We all know that English language is rich in idioms and sayings.

Слайд №12.Idioms/Silver

If you have them in your speech, you’ll be the front runner in learning English. Who is the front runner?

Pupils’ answers. F.ex  In English, we call the person most likely to win something ‘the front runner’.

-I’m sure you’ll be the front runner very soon, because you really are very, very good students. Yes, you are. You are magnificent. You are wonderful. In English, if someone speaks in such a pleasant way, we call him or her silver-tongued.

I love you guys. I’d like to teach you from morning till night. Unfortunately, life goes on and that’s the end of our meeting. But it only means see you tomorrow. In English, if there is a situation which seems bad but in fact has some advantage to it, we say ‘Every cloud has a silver lining’. Make up some situations, using these idioms. It will be your home assignment.

Well, what have you learned today? What are the fluency tips to become more fluent?

Pupils’ answers.

 Слайд №13.Fluency Tips

-I guess it’s high time to relax a little bit. What about singing the song “Obladi Oblada” ?

Audio“Obladi Oblada”