The wildlife of kazkahstan

Date

Theme

The wildlife of  Kazakhstan

Aims

To teach students to talk about activities in school

Kind of the lesson

New lesson

Method

dialogue

Inter-subject

kazakh

Expected sesults

S will be able to talk about the wildlife of  Kazakhstan

The procedure of the lessons

Teacher’s action

Warm up

What is the title of the lesson?  What words can you associate with this title?

• We live in a beautiful country
• I was born and grew in it
• I love my mother country
• Kazakhstan is the name of it
• -Read it slowly, please.
  -Repeat after me. (убираю по одному слову)
  -Who will try to pronounce it?
  -Fine!
  -Let’s go on.
  -Look through the patter and find irregular verbs and name their forms.

Key words

Wildlife, animals, plants, the Red Book, sea, ocean, rivers, fish,etc.

1) New vocabulary

-Below this text are new words. The first, I pronounce all words, and you listen to me with very attentively.
-Repeat after me!
-Brilliant!

Grammar

Adjectives

Reading of the text.

 Now you can read this text.
-Read and translate it, please.
-Who is ready?
-Fantastic!

Kazakhstan is located in the heart of the Eurasian continent, and covers an area of 2 million km2, being the ninth largest country in the world. The length of the country from the Altai Mountains in the east to the Caspian Sea in the west is about 3000 km from the Kyzyl Kum desert in the south to the north of the forest-steppe zone.

The country's population is only 17 million people, the rest of the territory which is not inhabited by people - it's endless steppes, deserts and mountains that are habitats to thousands of species of animals and birds.

The climate in the country is mostly continental. In the south, summer temperature is + 49 degrees, and in the north in the winter can fall to -57 degrees. In this case, the weather in the desert often changeable and fickle.

Nowadays there are 172 species of mammals, 490 species of birds, 51 species of reptiles, 12 species of amphibians, more than 100 species of fish in modern fauna. A large amount of animals as deer, elk, antelope, Koulan, wolf, fox, cheetah, snow leopard are listed as endangered in red book.

Flora of Kazakhstan includes 68 species of trees, 266 species of bushes, 433 species of dwarf bushes, 2598 species of perennial herbs, 849 species of annual herbs. Totally there are more than 6000 species of plants in Kazakhstan, 515 of them are endemic.

Extensive water resources of Kazakhstan are distributed unevenly across the country. There are about 8500 small and large rivers. The caspian and aral lakes are one of the largest lakes in the world. A few large lakes are located in the desert zone - Balkhash, Alakol and Zaisan.

Mountains of Kazakhstan is a favorite place of tourists around the world. Mangystau Mountains are located near the Caspian Sea, where is karagiye – the lowest point of kazakhstan is also located.

Interesting facts about the nature of Kazakhstan

• Kazakhstan is the most northern place in the world where pink flamingos fly to. They arrive in Korgalzhyn Reserve. The number of birds reaches to 36 thousands.
• Our country takes 3rd place in the world uranium mining.

Kazakhstan is known for speaking elephant Batyr who could imitate Reading

• human speech, barking dogs and other sounds. Researchers have not understood the nature of this phenomenon.
• There are tulips grow in Kazakhstan, which are the ancestors of some species of tulips.

Speaking

True of False

1. 19 species of animals and 23 of birds are included in to the International Red book of rare animals
2. In the steppes herds of koulans and jeirans grase
3. There are no animals in the deserts
4. Kazakhstan is inhabited with wild birds marmots, wild sheep, the Tien shan brown bear
5. In Kazakhstan people don’t respect leopards
6. Since ancient times kazakhs have used falcon balobans as hunting birds
7. Koulans are not close to extinction

Practice

1.Text with pictures.

-Look at this text. Read and translate it, please.

Where do animals live?

Our planet is home for many animals. They live everywhere. (еж), (волк), (лиса), (белка) and (заяц) live in the forest. And (слон), (обезьяна) and (тигр) live in the jungle. (лягушка) lives in the lake. (ящерица) lives in the field. And (летучая мышь) lives in the dark places.

-You are excellent pupils!

2. Opposites.

-Now look at the blackboard.
-Find and name all opposites. (составляют пары-антонимы)
-Very well!

3. Game “Animal experts”

-And now let’s play. OK?
-Our game is called “Animals experts”. As you know already, this is a flower. Pass it to your neighbor and say the name of any animal. If you can’t, please pass it on and stand up. The rules of the game are: you must say the word quickly and not repeat the names. Understand?

Let’s start!

-Very good! You know a lot of animals!

4. The fauna of Eastern Kazakhstan.

- Look at the text which in front of you.

The fauna of Eastern Kazakhstan.

The fauna of Eastern Kazakhstan is very rich. There are wild rams, Siberian mountain goats, deer, elks, snow leopards in mountains. There are also lynxes, squirrels, brown bears, wolves, foxes, wildboars, sables, badgers and other animals in the region.

Feedback

Assessment

Reflection

5 minutes

• So, what have you learned from the lesson?
• Was it difficult or easy for you?

Conclusion

5 minutes

At finally I’d like to thank you for you participation in our lesson, our discussion. Today you were very active and I hope that the theme of our lesson was interesting and useful for you. I’d like to know your opinion about the lesson.

Your marks for the lesson are……………..

Your home task will be to make your own school timetable

See you tomorrow. All the best!