Методическая разработка на тему:"Almaty is the largest city of Kazakhstan"

Time

Teacher’s activity

Student’s activity

2min

1. Organization movement.

The teacher qreets the students

Our today’s class is devoted to getting about the town. As you know, people travel a lot nowadays and if you ever have a chance to visit a foreign country you should be able to ask the way to a place you want to go to.

On the other hand, lots of tourists from abroad come to Almaty, and it'd be wonderful and give the necessary directions

A student answers the teacher’s question and listens very attentively.

4min

2. Phonetic and Speech Drill.

Repeat the words: yesterday, troubles, suddenly, shadow, say, said, wrong, believe, easy, game, play, seem, love, need, place.

Let’s sing a song “Yesterday”

The students repeat the words, they sing a song “Yesterday”.

19 min

3. Checking up homework.

And now it is time to check your homework. We are going to travel around Astana. So we start our travelling. Have a good time!

Questions:

1. When was Astana founded?

2. Is Astana a modern growing city, political, financial centre of the state?

3. What do you know about Baiterek?

4. Would you like to visit Astana?

The students retell a topic about Astana.

2 min

4. Motivation

The teacher tells the students the theme of the lesson and explain what aims they are going to solve at the lesson.

Almaty

Teamwork

Brain storming

Grammar

Work with the electronic book bookbook

Error monitoring

Questions

The students listen to the teacher’s explanation what they are going to do at the lesson.

30 min

5. Presentation of new theme: «Almaty»

Look at the blackboard!

How do you think what is the theme of our lesson?

We are having an unusual lesson

The topic «Almaty is the largest city of Kazakhstan» and what will we do at our lesson

We’ll do some exercises

Watch slides

Work in groups

Repeat the words

a) Vocabulary:

Spacious – просторный - кең

Emerald ridge – изумрудный хребет– меруерт жотасы

Magnificent architecture – великолепная архитектура – сән - салтанатты сәулет өнері

Museum – музей- мұражай

Among – среди- арасында

Picturesque gorge – живописное ущелье – көркем шатқалы

Exhibit – экспонат – көрме қойылышы

Folk instrument – народный инструмент - халық аспаптары

Famous – знаменитый – атақты

Morgue-мечеть - мешіт

Cathedral- собор христиан дінінің міркеуі

b) Reading.

Team work strategy. The students are divided into 3 groups and each group reads its own extract. Then they tell the main ideas of the extracts.

Almaty

Almaty was founded in 1854 and it is located in the south-east of Kazakhstan. Almaty remains the largest financial economic and cultural center of Central Asia. Almaty is one of the most beautiful and spacious cities of Kazakhstan. It is situated at the foot of the emerald Tien-Shan ridges. One of the most famous sights is the Republic Square, which is the central square of the city. It contains magnificent ensembles of modern architecture. The City Hall, the President’s Southern Residence and the television center are also situated near here. The World’s famous skating rink Medeu was built in 1972 in a picturesque gorge which is located 15km. from Almaty. It’s the best place for outdoor world competitions in speed skating. Mountain ski resort Shymbulak is situated at the 2200-2500 meters in the picturesque Shymbulak Gorge Charyn Canyon is a smaller version of the famous Grand Colorado Canyon in the US. East of the square one can find the Central State Museum. This museum is quite popular among the city visitors. Nearly 120,000 exhibits present the history and culture of Kazakhstan in four exhibition halls. Another attractive museum is the Museum of Kazakh Folk Instruments. It houses over 1,000 exhibits and 60 types of Kazakh folk instruments, including some that belonged to famous singers, poets and composers. The city is also full of beautiful mosques, cathedrals, theatres, parks and gardens. The sightseeing of Almaty are Kok-Tyube, Central Stadium, The Bolshaya Almatinka Gorge, Big Almaty Lake…

c) Reading with the missing words.

Complete the text with the appropriate words

1.Almaty is one of the most ____ and _____ cities of Kazakhstan
2.Almaty was founded in ___ and it is situated in the ________ of Kazakhstan

3.One of the most famous sights is the ______ , which is the central square of the city.

4. The World’s famous skating rink Medeu was built in ______.

5. Shymbulak is situated at the _____ meters in the picturesque Shymbulak Gorge.

6. Charyn Canyon is a smaller version of the famous _______ in the US.

7. East of the square one can find the______.

8. This museum is quite popular among ______.

9. Another attractive museum is the _______.

10. It houses over _____ exhibits and ______ types of Kazakh folk instruments.

d) Comprehension questions:

When was Almaty founded?

Where is Almaty located?

Where is Shymbulak situated?

How many exhibits and types of Kazakh folk instruments?

Which places of interest have you visited?

Have you ever been to Shymbulak and Medeu?

Reflection

e) Let’s compare Astana and Almaty.

When was Astana founded?

When was the presentation of Astana?

Name the sightseeings in Astana city?

Where is Astana situated?

When did Akmola become a new capital of the Republic of Kazakhstan?

Сomplete the table «Insert»

The students listen to the teacher’s explanation.

The student repeats the words, read and translate it in order to understand its meaning.

The students are divided into 3 groups, read and translate their extracts. While reading the text they mark the main ideas of the extracts.

The students read the text with missing words and fill in the gaps with the appropriate ones.

The students answer the questions on the text.

The students complete the table.

15 min

6. Presentation of grammar material:

Present Continuous Tense

am/is/are +

Present Continuous образуется при помощи вспомогательного глагола to be и добавления к смысловому глаголу окончания ing 

We are looking for the Republic Square, which is the central square of the city.

The students are learning the history and culture of Kazakhstan in four exhibition halls.

The Johnsons are listening famous singers, poets and composers.

Time expressions: now, at the moment.

Open your books on page 40-41 task 9

Work with the electronic book for the form module 4 grammar rules and do the exercises.

The students listen to the teacher’s explanation of grammar material and do different oral and written practice exercises.

The students translate the sentences.

The students write downs the exercise.

The students work with the electronic book.

4 min

7. Reflection

1)What can you tell about today’s lesson?

2)What is sensible, useful?

3)Have you enjoyed our lesson?

4) What kind of text did you read?

The students answer the questions.

2 min

8. Home task

1.Retell a topic about Almaty.

2. Grammar: «Present Continuous Tense»

The students write down the home task.

2 min

9. Marks

And our travelling around Almaty is over.

You have worked very well , have been active and have got good and excellent marks. I am grateful of all of you for today’s lesson. See you next week. Goodbye.

The students listen the results of the lesson.