Конспект урока по теме "How to Understand Those Mystifying Foreigners"

Этапы урока

Речевые действия учителя

Речевые действия учащихся

Опоры

Примечания

1. Организационный момент

-Good morning, children. How are you today?

-Everything is all right, thanks. Who is on duty? What date is it today? What day of the week is it today? Who is absent today?

-Good morning. Fine, thank you. And you?

Дежурный ученик отвечает на вопросы учителя.

Число и день недели записаны на доске.

2. Фонетическая зарядка

- …, please, come to the blackboard and start doing the phonetic training. Look at the print copies and repeat the sounds. Be attentive.

Дежурный ученик проводит фонетическую зарядку.

Распечатка со звуками.

Раздать распечатки.

3. Речевая зарядка

-What personality traits do you think are typical of Russians, Americans, and the British? Exercise 1(3) page 13.

Выполняют речевую зарядку.

… is typical of … .

4. Словарная работа

- Open your textbooks on page 12 ex.1(1). There is a belief that some national characteristics of people from different countries are a result of the influence of geography and environment on the country.

-Below are some words that can be used to describe personality traits.

-What do they mean? Match the word and the description with its meaning.

Выполняют упражнение.

5. Чтение

-Exercise 2(1). According to the American historian Frederic Jackson Turner, the frontier experience had a deep influence on the American character.

-What were Americans like at the period of the frontier experience?

- Exercise 2(2). What facts help to explain how Americans became the way they are?

- Exercise 3(1). Karen Hewitt, a British author, made a personal account of the British people and their lives on the «beautiful, off-shore island» in her book Understanding Britain. Which aspects of life does K. Hewitt explain to visitors?

-How does the author explain the reasons why

• there are the excellent roads in England?

• A lot of people like gardening?

• Most British people spend their holidays at the seaside?

• A lot of people like spending their holidays in France and Spain?

• English people like compromise?

- Exercise 4(1). This is the way Yale Richmond, an American author, describes Russians in his book From Nyet to Da.

-What conclusions does the author come to? Why does he think so?

-What conclusions of the author do you agree with? What conclusions do you disagree with? Why?

-How much is the Russian national character influenced by the country geography and climate?

-What do you think about the notion «national character»?

- Exercise 5(1, 2).

- Exercise 6.

Читают текст с целью выявления интересующей информации.

Отвечают на поставленные вопросы.

Читают текст с целью выявления деталей.

Отвечают на поставленные вопросы.

Читают текст с целью выявления деталей.

Отвечают на поставленные вопросы.

Выполняют упражнения.

Прочитанные тексты.

6. Подведение итогов

-You have known many facts about Russians, Americans, and the British. And your home task is ex.7. Here are some questions that foreigners may ask when in Russia. How would you explain these facts to foreigners?

-The lesson is over, you may be free. Good luck!

Подводят итоги урока и записывают домашнее задание.

Good Bye!