УРОК-ЛЕКЦИЯ "LET'S DISCOVER AMERICA"

Урок-лекция

«LET'S DISCOVER AMERICA»

Преподаватель Английского языка Королева Светлана Павловна,

ГПОУ ТО «Техникум железнодорожного транспорта им.Б.Ф.Сафонова»

1 курс.

Форма урока: урок-лекция.

Тип урока: Урок изучения нового в форме лекции

Тема урока: История и культура США

Оснащение: материалы по истории и культуре США, раздаточный материал с новой лексикой, мультимедийный проектор, экран, посадочные места для учащихся

Цель урока: познакомить учащихся с историей и культурой США.

Задачи:

• Образовательные: расширить знания о географическом положении, познакомить с фактами развития истории США; совершенствовать умения слушать, читать с извлечением нужной информации, создать условия для обсуждения учащимися полученных знаний по истории и культуре США.

• Развивающие: способствовать развитию способностей к репродуктивной и продуктивной речевой деятельности, оперативной памяти, любознательности, воображения, объёма памяти через постепенное увеличение речевых единиц на аудитивной и зрительной основе.

• Воспитательные: воспитание уважительного отношения к истории и культуре страны изучаемого языка, формирование устойчивого интереса к предмету.

Презентация

Этапы урока

1.Организационый момент

Объявление темы, задачи урока, план.

Dear friends! At our lesson we are going to speak about the geographical position of the USA and the history of its discovery. I want to give you some new information about the history and culture of the United States. Be ready to discuss it.

Учащиеся слушают учителя, осознают тему, задачи урока.

Учащиеся реагируют на реплики учителя. Отвечают на вопросы.

Everybody knows that English is an official language of the USA. If you want to learn a foreign language you should meet the people, study traditions, customs, culture of those countries, where English is their native language.

2. Повторение изученного материала по вопросам (географическое положение) по карте США -фронтальная форма работы

Where is the USA situated? What is it washed by? What is the longest river? What is the capital of the USA? …

Would you like to describe the geographical position of the USA? How many states are there? What is the biggest? ...Capitals? Dates?

Учащиеся отвечают на вопросы

The USA is situated in the centre of North America excluding the territory of Alaska (north – west of Canada) and Hawaii (in the Pacific ocean). It is washed by the Pacific ocean in the west and the Atlantic in the east. The USA borders on Canada in the north, Mexico in the south. Монологическое выступление учащегося у карты.

3. Введение нового материала

Do you want to know any other facts about this country? About its cities and places of interests? Today you have a good opportunity to expand outlook, get some knowledge about the history and culture of the USA watching our slide-show. Фонетическая отработка новой лексики

Учитель (по раздаточному материалу) отрабатывает с учащимися незнакомые слова, географические названия, названия достопримечательностей:

Slavery - рабство

irrigation – орошение полей Architecture - архитектура

expedition - экспедиция

tributaries - притоки

pulled down - перевернула

a burning candle – горящая свеча Geographical names: Philadelphia …

San Francisco

California

Chicago

Los Angeles

Lake Michigan

Washington’s National Cathedral

the Ohio

The Missouri

the Gulf of California

The Niagara Falls Грамматика: употребление определённого и нулевого артикля (учитель просит учащихся объяснить)

Просмотр презентации. Children, watch, listen, be ready to discuss and comment some pictures and dates after our slide-lecture. Be ready to answer some questions.

Работа по слайдам, с использованием комментариев, проведение беседы с учащимися.

Лексика отрабатывается вместе с учителем хором и индивидуально.

Учащиеся объясняют употребление артикля.Учащиеся смотрят презентацию слайдов, слушают комментарии, отвечают на вопросы учителя. Если необходимо делают краткие записи.

4. Обобщение полученных знаний.

Учитель демонстрирует фотографии достопримечательностей, показывает даты, которые учащиеся должны пояснить.

Отмечает наиболее активных учащихся.

Учащиеся отвечают на вопросы, делают комментарии.

I think that it is the building of … Объясняют даты: 1492 – the year of discovering of North America by Ch.Columbus. 1776 – the USA got its independence from Britain. The Declaration of Independence was written.

Индивидуальная работа по вопросам

Учащимся предлагаются вопросы для письменных ответов

Преподаватель отмечает учащегося, который выполнит задание наиболее быстро и правильно

Подведение итогов урока. Рефлексия

Преподаватель делает обобщение.

What was the most interesting for you? What impressed you most of all? 

Проводится анализ работы учащихся на уроке и оценивается их деятельность.

Домашнее задание

Your hometask is to write 10 sentences about some facts from our lesson, which impressed you most of all.

Записывают дом. задание

Языковой материал презентации

Who discovered America? The answer is: nobody knows. North America may have been discovered by Vikings under Leif Eriksson, but Europeans didn’t know about its existence until Columbus’ voyages.

In 1492 three ships- the “Santa Maria”, the “Pinta”, the “Nine” under Columbus landed the continent.

In 1507 Amerigo Vespucci explored the area of South America and introduced a new land to the world. This continent was called after him - “America”.

In 1620 the first people from England arrived in America. They left England because of religious problems.

In 1776 after the war with Britain, America became an independent country. Americans wrote the Declaration of the Independence and designed a new flag – The Stars and Stripes.

4th July – The Day of Independence (a national holiday)

After the war in 1861-1865 between the northern and the southern states (south lost) the government stopped slavery .

1969 – the first people on the moon were three astronauts: Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Ed Collins.

The flag of the USA has 13 red and white stripes representing 13 original states and 50 stars – for each of the 50 states of the country in our days.

Nationalities:

• white Americans - 83,5 %

• Africans - 12,4%

• immigrants from Asia - 3,3%

• native Americans (Indians, Aleuts, Eskimos) – 0,8 %

The USA is divided into 50 states. Hawaii became the 50th state in 1959. Alaska is separated from Russia by the Bering Strait. It is the biggest and the coldest state of the country.

Each of the states has its own capital, government and symbol.

The Niagara Falls – a waterfalls on the river Niagara (51 meters high). It is situated on the boarder between the USA and Canada. The waterfalls was discovered by the expedition of R. Lassal. There is always a rainbow over it.

The Mississippi – “Old man river” together with its tributaries the Missouri and the Ohio is the longest river in the world. The history of this river is described in the book “Life on the Mississippi” by M. Twain.

George Washington, “the father of his country”. He was an example of bravery and approved the fight against slavery. General Henry Li wrote : “Washington was first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen” The capital of the country, a state, a lake, an island, a mount, a canyon, some universities and colleges, streets and squares are named after him. In 1888 the Washington Monument was established in the capital (169 m. high).

The White House is the Residence of the American President. The Capitol is the highest building in W, where laws are made. No building in the city may be more than 40 meters high.

Washington National Cathedral (St. Peter and St.Paul’s Church Cathedral) – was built in a gothic style. The first stone was laid by Th. Roosevelt (the 26th president) in 1907. Finally it was rebuilt in 1990.

New York (New York) is the city of contrasts, financial and business centre of the USA.

It was founded some three hundred years ago. It is situated in the mouth of the Hudson . Its nickname is “A big apple”, because everybody wants to bite it.

At the entrance to New York Harbour you can see a great statue which is called the Statue of Liberty. It is 46 meters high excluding the pedestal. The Statue was designed by Bartholdy, a French sculptor, who worked ten years at it. In 1876 the statue was taken to pieces and shipped across the Atlantic as a gift from the French government to the USA for its democratic views.

Chicago’s architecture is one of the youngest in the USA “thanks to” the great fire in 1871.

The whole city was destroyed. The cause was the cow “Mrs. O’Leary”, who pulled down a burning candle in a time she had been milked. 90 thousand people were left without houses! Almost all the buildings of wood were burnt. Some years later the city was rebuilt. The first skyscrapers appeared with iron constructions.

The city became the most modern one from all the biggest American cities.

 Los Angeles (California) – the nation’s third largest city. It leads the USA in production of aircraft. This city is the world capital of filmed entertainment. The first cinema house in the country was opened here in 1902.

Hollywood – the centre of the US film industry. In 1913 the first film was made there. The biggest film companies are here: MGM, Paramount, 20th century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Warner Bros.

In 1955 a world famous cartoon’s creator Walt Disney founded the first park of entertainment with decorations from popular Disney cartoons in Los Angeles.
10 mln. people visit Disneyworld every year .

Walt Disney (1901-1966) - a world famous cartoons’Director.

His Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck are known to every child in the world.

New Orleans is the place to come if you like jazz or blues. Almost all the bars and clubs in the city feature live music, there are usually more bands playing out in the streets. Other reason to visit this city is its 19th century architecture.

Las Vegas is the city that never sleeps!

San Francisco, Philadelphia …

“America! Who has seen you once, will never forget”. (J. London)

Guess:

1. Thanks to his exploration America has got its name?

2. It is 51 metres high, is situated on the border between Canada and the USA-?

3. It is famous for its three universities - ?

4. He founded the first park of entertainment for children - ?

5. The home of the first skyscraper - ?

6. Who presented the Statue of Liberty to the USA and why?

7. Th. Roosevelt took part in the building of this sight. - ?

8. What is the biggest state of the USA?

9. This city has no skyscrapers. - ?