Урок-путешествие

Ставропольское президентское кадетское училище

Технологическая карта урока

Преподаватель: Соцкая Е.В..

Предмет :английский язык

УМК: О.В.Афанасьева, Д. Дули, И.В. Михеева, Б. Оби, В. Эванс Spotlight 10

Класс: 10

Тип урока: урок формирования лексико-грамматических навыков и речевых умений.

Module 5a

Task 7

Tuesday 7^th April – The Himalayas

Tuesday 7^th April – The Himalayas

We woke up yesterday feeling so 1)_________! Finally the day we would begin our 2-day trekking 2)__________ to the Himalayas had arrived! We took a small plane journey from Kathmandu and then trekked for 3)_______ up and down the rocky mountain trail. It was hot in the bright mountain sun but quite cold wherever there was some 4)________. You can’t imagine how spectacular the scenery was! We finally 5)________ a village called Phakding where we put up our tent and camped outside a teahouse. We tried some local 6)________ , which were delicious, and then got into our sleeping bags. It got cold very quickly once the sun had gone down! I woke the next morning to the most amazing 7)_________ I had ever seen! I took a walk down to the 8) _________ where I ran into two young boys playing. They were really 9)__________. Nepalese villages are very poor, but everyone we met in the mountains 10)__________ happy.

Key to Task 7

Tuesday 7th April – The Himalayas

We woke up yesterday feeling so 1) excited! Finally the day we would begin our 2-day trekking 2) excursion to the Himalayas had arrived! We took a small plane journey from Kathmandu and then trekked for 3) hours up and down the rocky mountain trail. It was hot in the bright mountain sun but quite cold wherever there was some 4) shade. You can’t imagine how spectacular the scenery was! We finally 5) reached a village called Phakding where we put up our tent and camped outside a teahouse. We tried some local 6) dishes, which were delicious, and then got into our sleeping bags. It got cold very quickly once the sun had gone down! I woke the next morning to the most amazing 7) sunrise I had ever seen! I took a walk down to the 8) river where I ran into two young boys playing. They were really 9) friendly. Nepalese villages are very poor, but everyone we met in the mountains 10) seemed happy.

Task 8.

Adjectives and antonyms

Key to Task 8.

Adjectives and antonyms (Suggested answers)

Travelling

Travelling

What is the goal of our lesson?

Expand our language skills on the topic through reading and vocabulary work.

What are the objectives of the class?

Read some texts on travelling and adventures.

Enlarge vocabulary on the topic.

Revise grammar on the theme.

Develop speaking skills.

Travelling

Task 1. Answer the questions:

• Do people like travelling? Why(not)?

• to study the world;
• to learn about different cultures;
• to meet new people and make new friends;
• to visit unusual places;
• to try different local dishes;
• to buy souvenirs;
• to take photos;
• to master language skills;
• to have fun;
• to get new experience;
• to waste time.

Travelling

2. Where can people travel to?

3. What means of travelling do you prefer? Why?

4. When is it better to travel: winter or summer?

5. What places have you been to?

6. If you had a chance where would you like to go?

Why?

Nepal

Nepal: Speaking

Task 2. Study the data and tell a few words about the country:

• Official name: the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal;
• Location: south of China, north, east and west of India;
• Territory: about 147 000 sq. km.;
• Population: about 30 mln. people;
• Capital: Kathmandu;
• Official languages: Nepali and some local languages;
• Religions: Hindu (81%), Buddhist (9 %), Muslim (5%) and others (5%);
• Government: Federal Parliamentary Republic;
• Governor: President.

Nepal: Pre-Reading

Task 3. Study the list of the following items and comment on them. Make up a dialogue.

• walking holidays;
• staying in a hotel;
• conveniences;
• plane journey;
• camping;
• heavy rucksacks;
• cold weather;
• local inhabitants;
• festival;
• guided tour;
• souvenirs;
• making notes.

You are going to spend holidays with your friend in Nepal. Discuss the possibilities, advantages and worries about going there.

Nepal: While Reading

Task 4. Read the titles of the paragraphs and say what they might be about.

Task 5. Study the rest of the text and be ready to say if the statements are true , false or the text doesn’t say about it. Correct the false statements.

Nepal: While Reading

• The weather wasn’t very good when the travellers arrived in Kathmandu.
• Kathmandu was clean and quiet.
• The view from the Himalayas was great.
• The two young boys asked the travellers for money.
• Bhaktapur is a modern town.
• Bisket Jatra takes place once a year.
• Bisket Jatra lasts a week.
• Jake and the author went home by plane.
• The author missed home.
• The author didn’t sleep at all during the holiday.

- True

- False

- True

- Doesn’t say

- False

- True

- Doesn’t say

- True

- True

- False

Nepal: Post-Reading

Task 6. Read the text attentively and answer the questions.

• What was the weather like in Kathmandu? The Himalayas?
• What means of transport did they use while in Nepal?
• Where did they stay?
• What did they do and see in each place?
• What kind of people are the Nepalese?
• What did they like about their visit to Bhaktapur:

people? festival? sights? dishes? view? competitions?

• Why did they want to go back home?

Nepal: Post-Reading

Task 7. Listen and fill in the gaps.

Tuesday 7 th April – The Himalayas

We woke up yesterday feeling so 1)_________! Finally the day we would begin our 2-day trekking 2)__________ to the Himalayas had arrived! We took a small plane journey from Kathmandu and then trekked for 3)_______ up and down the rocky mountain trail. It was hot in the bright mountain sun but quite cold wherever there was some 4)________. You can’t imagine how spectacular the scenery was! We finally 5)________ a village called Phakding where we put up our tent and camped outside a teahouse. We tried some local 6)________ , which were delicious, and then got into our sleeping bags. It got cold very quickly once the sun had gone down! I woke the next morning to the most amazing 7)_________ I had ever seen! I took a walk down to the 8) _________ where I ran into two young boys playing. They were really 9)__________. Nepalese villages are very poor, but everyone we met in the mountains 10)__________ happy.

excited

excursion

hours

shade

reached

dishes

sunrise

river

friendly

seemed

Nepal: Post-Reading

Task 8. Find the adjectives to describe the following things. Suggest antonyms. Complete the table.

• view
• scenery
• sunrise
• boys
• villagers
• contest

• parade
• Bhadtakur temples
• pottery
• campsites and hotels
• experiences

Nepal: Post-Reading

Task 9. Explain the words in bold and use them in the sentences below.

Delayed, beggar, barber, cracked, pavement, escape, peak, in the distance, breathtaking, trekking, shade, scenery, put up, local, ancient, annual, hire, tug-of-war contest, kick off, be based on, candlelit procession, craftsman, handicraft, drum, backpack, nasty viruses, countless, home comforts.

Nepal: Post-Reading

delayed

• She arrived in London after a _________ flight from Lisbon.
• The _________ dishes were delicious.
• Have you ever been to the ________ city of Machu Picchu?
• Notting Hill Carnival is an ________ festival on London.
• They _________ a guide to show them around.
• The _________ was crowded with people.

local

ancient

annual

hired

pavement

Nepal: Post-Reading

Task 10. Study the words and phrases from the text and translate them into Russian.

• delayed flight
• street vendor
• shoeshine boy
• crack
• be worth sth/doing sth
• the view of …
• in the distance
• be breathtaking
• trekking excursion
• rocky mountain trail
• spectacular
• scenery
• put up a tent
• try local dishes
• once = when
• annual
• hire a guide
• tug-of-war contest
• kick off
• wild parade
• be based on
• candlelit procession
• go on a guided tour
• go shopping for souvenirs
• handicraft
• countless temples
• backpacking through Asia
• look forward to sth/doing sth
• home comforts

Nepal: Speaking

Task 11. Retell the paragraphs of the text using the words and phrases in Task 10 .

• Which places did the author visit?
• What did she do/see in each?
• How did she like the journey?

Vocabulary Work

Task 12. Choose the correct word. Explain the difference in their meaning.

• excursion - a short journey arranged so that a group of people can visit a place, especially while they are on holiday;
• exhibition - a show of paintings, photographs, or other objects that people can go to see;
• leaflet - a small book or piece of paper advertising something or giving information on a particular subject;
• brochure - a thin book giving information or advertising something;
• coast - the area where the land meets the sea;
• beach - an area of sand or small stones at the edge of the sea or a lake;
• package – prepaid kind of holiday with a definite route;
• packed - containing a lot of a particular type of thing;
• scenery - the natural features of a particular part of a country that you can see, such as mountains, forests, deserts;
• view - the whole area that you can see from somewhere, especially when it is very beautiful or impressive;

Vocabulary Work

• fix - decide on a particular time, place, etc when something will happen;
• book - make arrangements to stay in a place, eat in a restaurant, go to a theatre etc at a particular time in the future;
• passenger - someone who is travelling in a vehicle, plane, boat etc, but is not driving it or working on it;
• traveller - someone who is on a journey or someone who travels often;
• prolong - deliberately make something such as a feeling or activity last longer;
• extend - continue for a longer period of time, or to make something last longer;
• shadow - dark shape that someone or something makes on a surface when they are between that surface and the light;
• shade - slight darkness or shelter from the direct light of the sun made by something blocking it;
• take - use a particular form of transport or a particular road in order to go somewhere;
• catch - get hold of and stop an object such as a ball that is moving through the air;
• rent - pay to live in or use a building that is owned by someone else;
• hire - employ someone for a short time to do a particular job;
• setting - the place where something is or where something happens, and the general environment.

Vocabulary Work

Task 13. Match the words and their definitions and fill them in the sentences:

• describes travelling from one place to another over a considerable distance.

tour

• is often travelling to a place and coming back the same day and so it is not usually long.

excursion

trip

• describes travelling from one place after another over a period of days/weeks and visiting various towns/cities and in the end coming back to where you started

voyage

journey

• is a very long trip, usually at sea or in space.

• is usually short journey made for pleasure; an outing

tour

• They went on a coach ___________ of Spain.
• Let’s go on a day ___________ to the seaside.
• The holiday company organises a weekly ____________ to the mountains.
• The Titanic sank on its maiden ______________ .
• The car ______________ was boring, tiring and hot.

trip

excursion

voyage

journey

Reflexion

Hometask

• Learn the words and expressions (pp. 82-83) by heart.
• Retell the text “Beautiful Nepal” using as many words and expressions as possible.