The most famous potrait

Parts: Time:

Activities:

1. Organization. Greeting. 10 min.

Introduction to the lesson.

Warming – up.

(Speaking skills)

1. Main Part. 25 min.

Review.

New Material.

“The Most Famous

Portrait”(“Mona Lisa”

by Leo da Vinci /creating this masterpiece).

( Speaking skills)

Scanning reading.

Home assignment. 5 min.

Summing Up/Close Up 5 min.

T: Good morning, students. How are you getting on?

Today’s lesson we are going to discuss some aspects of our lexical topic “Visual Arts. Painting”.

T: Let’s check up your home assignment.

(Textbook: ex. 40 p.36 “ Speaking section”)

Ask and answer the questions to each other.

T: On this lesson let’s remember genres of painting you know.

Task: Define genres of these paintings.

(Textbook p. 5,7,8, 15 + illustrations of the almanac “The Treasures of the World”).

T: Do you know what the most famous portrait is?

Students’ answers.

T: Look at this great masterpiece! (showing “Mona Lisa” by Leo da Vinci). What do you know about it?

Students’ answers.

T: It’s time to know more about creating of this picture.

Listen to one of well – known critics characterized this famous picture. (reading the pattern)

Do you agree with his opinion? What do you think about this mysterious portrait? Work and discuss it in groups.

T: Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? We’ll know after reading information, using your handouts.

Task for Reading. During the reading of this text draw attention on these two points:

“What makes Mona Lisa so mysterious and why this portrait is the most famous one in the world”.

T: You have 5 min. to discuss them after reading the text.

T: Textbook ex.56 p.46. You can see the poem by Brenda M. Weber “Mona Lisa”. Recite it now and translate it at home.

Try to translate it in poetic form.

Thank you for your active and good job today! Your marks are …

I hope that you have known much more interesting, haven’t it?

What new and useful have you known on this lesson?

Students’ answers.

Have a nice and good day! Good – bye !

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Group work.

S1 – S2

S2 – S3

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Group work.

Pair work.

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