Is it easy to be young?

Учитель английского языка – Сымбелова Ирина Аюшеевна.

Тема занятия: IS IT EASY TO BE YOUNG?

Практические задачи:

1. совершенствование навыков монологической и диалогической речи по теме “Is it easy to be young?”;

2. совершенствование навыков аудирования;

Воспитательные задачи:

1. формировать у учащихся нетерпимое отношение к вредным привычкам среди подростков;

2. информировать учащихся о возможных путях преодоления проблем, связанных с учебой, отношениями с учителями, родителями, одноклассниками и т.д.

Образовательные задачи:

1. познакомить учащихся с проблемами подростков в США;

2. обсудить с учащимися основные проблемы подростков в России.

Развивающие задачи:

1. развитие воображения, артистических способностей учащихся;

2. совершенствование навыков создания мультимедийной презентации;

3. развитие иноязычной речевой деятельности.

Технологическая карта

Этапы урока

Оборудование: видеопроектор, компьютер, компакт диски.

Ход урока:

I. Ведущий: Hello, everybody! I’m glad to see you at out talk-show devoted to the discussion of the topic “Is it easy to be young?” First, let me introduce our guests to you. Maria, a psychologist and a specialist of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Buryatia, John Smith – a specialist of the Department of Psycology from the USA, Mr. Ivanov Sergey, a representative of Russia in UNO and students you’re your group who made a film about teenagers and their problems.

Ведущий: And I’d like to begin out talk with a blitz-interview and ask participants of our show to answer the main question of our discussion “Is it easy to be young?”

( all students answer the question and explain their opinion)

Thank you everybody, I’m glad to introduce our first guest – Maria, who will tell us about main problems of teenagers. ( Maria speaks about urgent problems of teenagers, such as drug addiction, misunderstanding with parents, friends or teachers, poverty, homelessness, much homework at school, lack of free time etc.).

Ведущий: Have you got such problems in your group? ( other participants share their opinions).

The second guest of our program is …, who will tell us about problems of her groupmates. (one student speaks about problems of students in his|her class)

II. Ведущий: Thank you for sharing your experience and now let us listen to the interview with Melanie Stewart, a social worker. After the interview I would like you to answer the questions:

1. What problem does she speak about?

2. What are the main reasons for this problem?

3. And how does Marie Stewart offer to copy with this problem?

(Listening comprehension, pupils answer the above-mentioned questions).

Ведущий: I’m glad to invite to our program a guest from the USA, John Smith, who will tell us about problems of teenagers in the USA. (а student playing the role of an American psychologist speaks about problems among American teenagers, he takes the data from the textbook “English”).

Ведущий: Do you think problems of teenagers in Russia and in the USA have much in common? (sharing opinions between participants of talk-show).

III. Ведущий: Our journalists … have made a film about teens’ problems around the world.. Let’s see their film and maybe you will tell us what your impressions of this film are (pupils watch the film made by girls and listen to their comments).

Ведущий: Thank you for this film. I believe it is really urgent and will make our teenagers think how to avoid addictions and cope with different problems. How do you find this film? Was it interesting and useful for you? Or on the contrary, it was boring and not actual? ( some pupils can express their impressions about the film). Now I’d like to introduce our fourth guest, Mr. Sergey Ivanov, a representative of Russia in the UNO, who will tell us about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.( the student speaks about the rights of children according to the United Nations Convention and comments some of them, such as the right to life, name, privacy etc.)

Ведущий: What are the most important Rights of a Child, to your mind? And can you comment them? (participants share their opinions what rights are the most important for them)

Ведущий: So, what conclusion can we make? And what advice can you give your friends when they are in difficult situation? (pupils offer their advice to age-mates, for example,

to call the Trust – telephone, to share problems with a form-teacher or parents, to write down about problems in the diaries and analyse them etc.)

IV. Ведущий: It is very important to speak about your problems, to share with people who can help you. How to do it, how to express your problems? This is the question and today we shall learn how to do it in different situations.

(students get cards with different situations and make up dialogues on the topic “Anything to complain about?”

Ведущий: So, let us make the conclusion. What are the main problems of teens? (students mention smoking, alcoholism, drug addiction, misunderstanding with parents, teachers, mates, hard studying, much homework, shortage of free time etc.)

Ведущий: How can teens solve their problems?

( Students’ answers:

• “to share problems with psychologists, teachers, parents, friends;

• to call “Trust telephone”;

• to go to the church, datsan;

• to write about problems in the diaries

• ask for advice in teens’ magazines etc.”)

Ведущий: Yes, I hope your advice will help those teenagers who might get into trouble and find themselves in difficult situations. Thank you for taking an active part in the discussion. Our talk-show is over. Take care of yourselves and your relatives.