Урок по английскому языку по теме "Экология"

Методическая разработка урока

«Ecology and Environment»

Цели урока:

1. Учебные – развитие навыков устной монологической и диалогической речи, активизация лексико-грамматических конструкций по теме, развитие навыков аудирования, развитие навыков поискового чтения с извлечением конкретной информации.

2. Развивающие – развитие критического мышления через чтение информационного текста, развитие умения вырабатывать аргументы, развитие умения выражать свое отношение к теме, развитие образного мышления через использование проблемных ситуаций и творческих заданий, развитие навыков аудирования

3. Воспитательная – развитие умения работать в малых группах, формирование уважительного и ответственного отношения к окружающему миру, воспитание бережливости и осознании роли человека во взаимодействии с природой, формирование способности осознавать экологические проблемы и желания помочь природе.

4. Компетенции: коммуникативная, интеллектуальная, социальная.

Учебные пособия: компьютер, мультимедиа, ресурсы Интернета, текст для аудирования «Why don’t we stop him?», раздаточный материал: тексты «How do these things pollute our nature?» с заданиями на извлечение конкретной информации и на множественный выбор, задания по аудированию.

Ход урока:

1. Организационный момент.

Teacher: Good morning, students! Nice to see you all! What date is it today?

Student: Today is the 16 –th of October.

Teacher: The weather is great today, isn’t it?

Students: The weather is … today. (несколько учащихся дают ответы)

Teacher: Oh, that’s true! It is quite warmer now than it was some years ago. Who can tell me what is the possible reason of such an extraordinary situation as global warming?

Students: I think that … (несколько ответов)

2. Фонетическая разминка

Teacher: Many scientists prove it. So you are right. Now I ask you to look at the screen and to watch the clip of Michael Jackson’s song. Your home task was to read, to translate and to realize the sense of this song. You are to try to pronounce all the words of this song properly while singing it and to express your ideas about what our today’s lesson will be devoted to. (учащиеся смотрят клип и поют песню Майкла Джексона).

Students: What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain.. .
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop this notice
This crying Earth the weeping shores?

Aaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaah

What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop this notice
This crying Earth the weeping shores

Aaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaah

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far

3. Сообщение темы урока.

Teacher: Ok, my dear what are your ideas of our today’s theme of the lesson?

Students: I think that …(несколько ответов учащихся)

Teacher: Very clever of you. Our topic is “Ecology and Environment” You can see the motto of our lesson on the screen. Who’d like to read it aloud?

Students: Earth First

Teacher: How do you understand this motto?

Students: несколько ответов

4. Закрепление новой лексики

Teacher: Well, and you know that we don’t take care of our planet properly so we have many problems with our ecology nowadays. I have a surprise for you. Do you see this box? ( учителем показывается коробка со знаком черепа и перекрещенных костей). We have already studied the meaning of the signs and this is one of them (учителем показывается знак на коробке) Who can tell me what does it mean?

Students: Watch out!

Teacher: That’s it. Let’s open the box and check it. (учитель открывает коробку). You deal with all these things in everyday life and they somehow connect with our today’s topic of the lesson. Your task is to take out one of them and name it.

Students: Plastic Bottle

Aliminium can

Old batteries

Wool gloves

Traffic ticket

Glass container

Plastic bag

Polythene bags

Banana peel

Deodorant

Tin can

Wax paper cup

1. Развитие навыков поискового чтения с извлечением конкретной информации.

Teacher: I think it is interesting for you to know how these things influence our ecology. I’ll give you a text and your task is to find some information about a thing that you have chosen. You are to get ready to tell us the main idea of your story. I give you 2 minutes to do it. You may take notes.

Students: читают тексты в течении 2 минут

«How do these things pollute our nature?»

When we use batteries we throw them away if they are out of use. Americans throw out 2 billion pounds of batteries a year. Toxic chemicals in batteries can be released into the environment, especially if they are burned. Save your old batteries and take them to a recycling centre. Old batteries litter stayed unchangeable for 500 years

Making aluminium from recycled aluminium uses 90% less energy than making aluminium from scratch. In 1993 alone aluminium can recycling saved more than 11 billion kilowatt hours of electricity, enough to supply the residential electric needs of New York City for six month. The energy saved from 1 recycled aluminium can will operate a television set for three hours. If you throw an aluminium can out of the window, it will still litter the Earth up to 500 years later.

We used to buy all drinks in plastic bottles. Americans use 2 million plastic bottles every year. Unfortunately, some of this packaging doesn’t reach the bins. It becomes litter instead. These bottles can’t be recycled. It takes 500 years to decompose plastic bottles

Only buy soda and other drinks in aluminium cans or glass bottles. Buy milk or juice in cartons. Then recycle them.

These days, people usually do shopping in supermarkets. Some products are packed in paper or plastic bags. We use them with pleasure as it’s convenient but it takes a whole tree to make about 500 paper grocery bags. But plastic bags are worse because they can’t be recycled, and the plastic will never decompose.

Every person likes to eat fruit and vegetables to be healthy and we don’t think about our nature in these cases although peels which we throw away can damage our environment as Banana peel litter lasts up to 6 months for example so we should find a way to reuse it somehow. In America people have a special rubbish bin for this.

Many countries bury and forget about millions of tons of rubbish every year. It is known that in one year, a European family with 2 children throws away about 50 kilos of paper. All of us use a transport in which everybody gets a traffic ticket. When we go out we throw this ticket away and don’t think that this small piece of paper can damage our environment as it takes 1month to decompose traffic ticket.

When we do shopping in supermarkets we see that some goods are in glass containers and in this case food keeps clean and fresh for a long period of time. Some producers do it just to make the food look better. Glass containers cause cuts and can kill or just hurt animals. If we throw it away it’s disposing can last forever.

As far as you know we have a strong winters in Russia and have to wear wool clothes especially wool gloves. And we never think of how they can damage our nature. If we have holes in them we just throw them away into the rubbish bin and buy a new pair. But wool gloves litter stayed unchangeable for 1 year. So try not to throw them away too often.

When we go to the forest to have a picnic we take different tin cans as it is very suitable in such cases. We have a good rest and when tin cans are empty we throw them away and never think that they remain in the forest and on the roadsides and can hurt wild animals or even kill them. More than that they can’t be disposed for100 years.

- We use different deodorants to smell pleasant but many commercial cleaners contain toxic substances that are dangerous to our health and the environment. Nontoxic alternatives are not only as effective and easy to use as their commercial counterparts, but are also safer. But still if we throw away our empty deodorant it takes 100 years to decompose it.

People started to use wax paper cups some years ago as it was very useful especially if you go somewhere on a trip or just drive a car. A wax paper cup is a disposable cup made out of paper and often lined with wax to prevent liquid from leaking out or soaking through the paper. Nowadays if we have a party we may also use wax paper cups in order not to wash dishes afterwards. But don’t you know that it takes 5 years to decompose wax paper cup?

- Every year in Britain each person produces about 60 kilograms of polythene wastes. Making polythene causes pollution. In the town polythene wastes look horrible. But fortunately someone clears it away. In the country side, it remains in the fields and on the roadsides unless the people who live nearby pick it up. The animals can eat polythene bags and die, or put their heads in them and suffocate. We should say that polythene bags litter stayed unchangeable for 300 years

Teacher: Your time is up. Let’s listen to your summaries. There is a paper with a table on your desk. Do you find it? While listening one another your task is to insert the table using a multiply choice.

Students: зачитывают краткое содержание своих тестов, выражая их основную мысль и заполняют таблицу по ходу прослушивания рассказов одноклассников.

Teacher: Now let’s check your tables. You should tell how long litter lasts using the cliché on the screen.( на мультимедийном экране высвечиваются предложения 1) It takes______years to decompose_______ 2) ______litter lasts ____years 3)__________litter stayed unchangeable for_______years)

Students:

It takes 1month to decompose traffic tickets

Banana peel’s litter lasts up to 6 months

Wool gloves’ litter stayed unchangeable for 1 year

It takes 100 years to decompose a deodorant

Tin cans’ litter lasts 100 years

Aliminium can’s litter stayed unchangeable for 500years

It takes 500 years to decompose plastic bottles

Glass containers’ litter lasts forever

Old batteries’ litter stayed unchangeable for 500 years

It takes 5 years to decompose wax paper cups

Plastic bags’ litter lasts up to 500 years

Polythene bags’ litter stayed unchangeable for 450 years

1. Проверка домашнего задания. Развитие устной диалогической речи.

Teacher: Well done, remember this information, please. More than that I am sure you should pick up litter you see as you are walking. Litter is not only ugly but it can be harmful to wildlife. Small animals can get hurt on sharp cans or broken bottles. To prove it let’s check up the second part of your home task. Your task was to make up a dialogue on the picture. You are welcome.

Students: 2 пары учащихся рассказывают диалоги.

Teacher: Perfect! Enough for today, thanks a lot. We’ve listened to 2 different scenes on the same picture but the sense is the same. What is it?

Students: The sense of these dialogues is… (ответы нескольких учащихся)

1. Физкультминутка.

Teacher: I am glad you realize it. I see that you are tired let’s have a minute of relaxation. (звучит расслабляющая музыка со звуками живой природы) Sit comfortably. Close your eyes and imagine that you are in a forest near the lake. You are lying on the green grass. The weather is fine, the sun is shining brightly. A light wind is blowing from the sea. The birds are singing. Your brain relaxes. You are relaxing. The air is pure, breathe in, breathe out. (Pause). Now open your eyes. To live in a clean world we should start with ourselves.

Clean the table

Clean the floor

Clean the window

Clean the door.

1. Развитие навыков аудирования.

Teacher: Great! Now I’d like you to listen to the story and say why the young member of the Women’s Club wanted to stop the car producer.

Students: слушают аудиозапись упр 33 b) стр 65 student’s book.

Teacher: So, why did the young member of the Women’s Club want to stop the car producer?

Students: - The young member of the Women’s Club wanted to stop the car producer because…(несколько ответов учащихся)

Teacher: Let’s listen to the story again. Then you’ll do a test. You should be more careful this time. Write true or false on the papers which are on your desks, please.

Students: слушают аудиозапись второй раз и заполняют тесты

1 Every Friday the woman invited someone to their Club and talked about important things.

2 One day, a gentleman came and talked to the club about different problems of their city.

3 He said that more than half the people in the city were hungry.

4 The gentleman spoke about positive and negative effects of cars and buses.

5 People suffer from cars and buses because they are faster than trains and boats.

6 Most of us prefer to walk or to ride a bicycle.

7 The gentleman said that there were more and more cars produced each year.

8 A young woman knew how to solve the problem.

Teacher: Ok, hand in your papers, please.

Students: сдают работы

Teacher: Using the information of this text tell me, please how can we protect our ecology?

Students: I think….несколько учащихся высказывают свои предположения

9. Активизация пройденной лексики.

Teacher: I’m on your side here. So everything is in our hands and you shouldn’t forget about 3 R. By the way, who can tell me what these 3 R mean?

Students: refuse, reuse. Recycle

Teacher: Look at the screen, please and read the meaning of these words, please. (слайд№ 1)

Student:

Recycle To use an object in a different way.

Reduce To make something smaller.

Reuse To use an object again.

Student: Reduce the amount of rubbish we make.

Reuse things: don’t throw them away.

Recycle things: find other uses for things.

Teacher: Now let’s watch the third slide. What can we reduce at home?

Students: зачитывают правильные варианты ответов

Teacher: Now slide № 4 reuse and recycle.

Students: зачитывают правильные варианты ответов

10 Развитие умений работать в малых группах

Teacher: Work in small groups, please and insert your words in the sentences which are on the screen. You have 3 minutes to do it.

In our family we recycle … . It helps (not) to …

We also reuse … . It helps …

We reduce …

Students: работают в группах, обсуждая варианты ответов

Teacher: Let’s check it.

Students: зачитывают свои предложения

11 Тренировка навыков чтения вслух.

Teacher: I see that you know how to protect our environment. There are many organizations nowadays which fight for our Earth read about 2 of them on the screen, please.

Student: Greenpeace an international environmental pressure group started in the 1960 in Canada.

Greenpeace message is «When you cut down the last tree and kill the last fish, poison the last river, then you will see that you can't eat money»

Student: Friends of the Earth an environmental pressure group. It was founded in 1971. The aim of the group is to protect the environment. The main concerns are air, sea, river and land pollution. FOE has branches in 30 countries

Teacher: So, as you see, an ecology problem is very important for all human beings and there is a day of our planet. Read about it, please

Student: The Earth Day April 22 – people demonstrate their concern for a better environment. They plant trees and flowers, feed birds and animals. They also clean the countryside and put litter in the bin. It was first held in 1970.

Teacher: I have a little suggestion, let’s plant a small tree on this day and we’ll help to make our life better. Who is for this idea rise your hand. Thanks!

12 Активизация лексико-грамматических конструкций по теме.

Teacher: Our lesson is almost at the end and I want you to look at the blackboard. There is a picture of a bold tree here. It hasn’t leaves because of a bad ecological situation. You task is to write 1 point of how everyone can help to keep the Earth clean on the leaf which is on your desk and stick it on the tree to make it green. Use the example of the 9-th slide.

• WE SHOULD + V1

• WE SHOULD HELP ANIMALS

• WE SHOULD CARE FOR WILDLIFE

• WE SHOULDN’T + V1

• WE SHOULDN’T THROW AWAY LITTER

• WE SHOULDN’T DAMAGE BIRDS’ NESTS

Students: записывают свои ответы на листах и, произнося записанное, приклеивают листья на нарисованное на доске дерево

13 Рефлексия

Teacher: Our tree is perfect now! Thanks! We have spoken about the environment and I hope that today you’ve learnt something new. Please in turn say a sentence on it.

Students: выражают свое мнение по поводу урока.

14. Домашнее задание

Teacher: I am very glad Thanks a lot. Now, write down your home task which is on the screen. It’s Exercise № 30 page 64. Translate from Russian into English.

Exercise № 37 page 66. Answer the questions.

15. Итоги урока

Teacher: I’d like to thank you all for your good work at the lesson. Come to me with your diaries and I give you your marks. The lesson is over. Good bye.

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