Урок Famous travelers. James Cook.

Lesson Plan

Subject: English

Date: 20\01\2017

Level: 9th form “A”
Duration: 45 minutes 
The theme of the lesson: The famous travelers. “James Cook”
The aims of the lesson:  SWBAT( students will be able to)

1. To introduce with the text, to speak about the famous travelers who discover new continents.

2. To develop pupils’ communicative skills in reading, speaking and thinking; to arouse their interest in learning English.

3. To bring up pupils to be attentive, to teach to work creatively: to encourage respect to their country.

 

Visual aids: interactive board, portraits of travelers, cards, slides, scheme

 

The type of the lesson: standard

 

Method: ask-answer, combine, compare, searching, creative.

 

Interaction: with Geography, Kazakh and Russian lessons

The procedure of the lesson:

Teacher’s activity:

Introduction

Greetings, date, attendance.

Preparation

Good morning, boys. I’m very glad to see you today. Sit down, please.

A talk with the student on duty.

Today we are going to get some more information about the famous travelers who discovered new continents. To revise Gerund and try to do some other tasks. First let’s start with your homework, so let’s check it. What was your homework?

Checking homework:

Gerund in the speech

Ex.5,6 p.120-121

Warm-up:

a)speaking practice

Before we start our lesson, let’s talk about famous travelers in general. Do you know any famous travelers? Why were they famous? Do you know what nationality they were?

 b)Listening three texts about famous travelers and guess who is who:

(James Cook, Christopher Columbus, Michael Przhewalski)

1st : He was born in England in 1728. He made three voyages to different places: the Pacific Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the Antarctic, and Arctic. He discovered the Hawaiian Islands.

2^nd:He was born in Italy in 1451. He was a sailor and made many voyages. In 1492 he started a journey with three ships. It was long and difficult. He discovered America in 1492.

3rd: He was born in Russia in 1839. He travelled to unknown parts of Central Asia. His journeys opened a new era for the study of geography, fauna and flora od Central Asia.

Now I want you to draw your attention to the blackboard where the quotation from John Clark is written: “He that travels far knows much”. I think these words can be the motto of our lesson. As you know travelling develops our outlook, travelling abroad helps you to study.

Fill in: tour, excursion, trip, journey and voyage.

1. They went on a coach _______ of Spain. 2. Let’s go on a day ______ to the seaside. 3. The holiday company organizes a weekly _______ to the mountains. 4. The Titanic sank on its maiden _______. 5. The car _______ was boring, tiring and hot.

Choose the correct answers.

1. We were in our car for an hour in the (track/traffic jam).

2. I carried all my clothes on my back in a (rucksack/suitcase).

3. We pushed all our bags on a (cab/trolley) through the airport.

4. They searched our bags at (customs/ passport control) when we arrived at the airport.

5. The plane (changed/ landed) at the airport at 3 o’clock; two hours late.

6. On the train we ate something from the (buffet/ luggage) service.

7. What a lot of (luggage/ traffic jam)! You’ve got five suitcases!

8. We haven’t got time for the bus. Let’s take a (cab/ trolley).

Presentation :

So, the theme of our lesson is “James Cook”

Today we shall speak about famous travelers during our lesson. Before we start work with the text, I’ll give you some new words according to the theme. Let’s pronounce these words.

explorer

navigator

cartographer

set off

was damaged

to do repairs

the Adventure and the Resolution

latitude

goal

avail

исследователь

  навигатор

  картограф

отправляться

был поврежден

делать ремонт

Приключение и Разрешение

широта

цель

увенчались успехом.

Good! Let’s read the text “James Cook” first after that you will have to do some tasks. Then we will join necessary information and try to do some other tasks. After translating the text we shall work with the semantic map.

Captain James Cook was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy.

Cook set off for his first journey on August 26, 1768. During this trip he visited Tahiti the Society Islands, and New Zealand. He mapped much of the two main islands of New Zealand, but also ended up fighting with the local Maori tribe. Next stop on the journey was the east coast of Australia. Here James and his crew found all sorts of interesting animals and plants including the kangaroo. Unfortunately, the ship was damaged on some coral and they had to stop for a while to do repairs.

Captain Cook's second expedition took place from 1772-1775. This time he took two ships, the Adventure and the Resolution. His goal was to either discover the southern continent or prove that it didn't exist. He went below 70 degrees latitude. This was the furthest south any European had explored. He also visited Easter Island.

Cook's final expedition lasted from 1776 to 1779. The goal of this journey was to find a northwest passage across North America to Asia. He searched the coast of Alaska to no avail.

Fun Facts about Captain Cook

The first European to set foot on Australia's east coast was Cook's nephew Isaac Smith.

The Endeavour also had scientists aboard including botanist Joseph Banks. They collected and recorded numerous plants and animals throughout their journey.

Tahiti was so nice and the natives so friendly that some of Cook's crew wanted to stay.

The Maori warriors in New Zealand wore tattoos on their faces. Some of the Endeavour's sailors got tattoos on their arms and started a tradition that continues today.

Practice

Task I

Magic numbers

Which of the following numbers or dates relate to the person you read about? What do they refer to?

on August 26, 1768; 1772-1775; 70; 1776 to 1779.

Task II

True or False

1. Captain James Cook was a American explorer, navigator, cartographer

2. During this trip he visited Tahiti the Society Islands, and Australia.

3. In Australia James and his crew found all sorts of interesting animals and plants including the kangaroo.

4. Captain Cook's second expedition took place from 1772-1775.

5. Cook's final expedition lasted from 1776 to 1778.

6. The first European to set foot on Australia's east coast was Cook's nephew Isaac Smith.

Task III

Make the sentences 

1. captain \ the Royal Navy\James Cook \was\ a British\ explorer\navigator\ cartographer\and .

2. goal\ was \The \ to find\ a northwest \ of \journey\ across \this\ North America \ passage\ to\ Asia.

The ending of lesson

 a) Giving marks:

A few words about your marks …

b) Giving home task:

Look at the blackboard and write down your home task for the next lesson:

Exercise 8, page 121 .

c)Reflection

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d) Evaluation:

So, our lesson is over. You were very active. Thank you for your work. You may be free. Good bye!