Конспект урока по теме "Great Britain"

Конспект урока, ориентированный на развитие социокультурной компетенции на основе УМК О. В. Афанасьевой, И. В. Михеевой для 9 класса средней общеобразовательной школы

LESSON 2

Topic: History of Great Britain

Problem: All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Рекомендуется использовать задания наряду с упражнением 11, стр. 14-15 учебника.

I. Leading- in

Task 1. Report your ideas to the group of improving the situation in a multicultural society such as United Kingdom and Russia.

II. Comprehension 

Task 1. Revise the chronological dates in the British history.

Dates in the British history

1381 Peasants' Revolt in England – result of various historic grievances, its immediate cause the burden of three poll taxes.

1455 Wars of the Roses – name later given to sporadic political and dynastic troubles, involving claims of houses of Lancaster and York to English Crown.

1534-40 English Reformation: Henry VIII establishes the Church of England

1555 Muscovy Company – forerunner of other joint – stock companies – founded to promote English trade with Russia.

1558-1603 Reign of Elizabeth I – successful, cautious and competent.

l590- l613 Plays of Shakespeare written.

1649 Execution of Charles I – demanded by army leaders and radicals after the King's defeat during the civil wars between Crown and Parliament.

1679 Habeas Corpus Amendment Act greatly improves the means by which a person may establish a right to liberty, for example by securing release from unjustifiable detention in prison.

1694 Bank of England founded.

1775 – 83 American War of Independence – Britain loses American colonies.

l760s- l830 Industrial Revolution.

1767 James Hargreaves's spinning jenny invented.

 1769 Richard Arkwright's water frame – a water-powered textile spinning

machine – patented.

1779 Samuel Crompton's mule – for spinning yam for use in muslin manufacture – invented 1825 Siocktori to Darlington railway built 1831 Michael Faraday discovers magneto-electricity.

1803 –1815 Britain involved in continental conflict to contain Napoleon's expansionism.

1801 First census in England and Wales – a census has been held every ten years since, except in 1941.

1807 Slave trade to British colonies abolished.

1829 Civil disabilities hitherto suffered by Catholics in Britain.

1832 First Reform Act extends right to vote to men in certain economic categories and abolishes many rotten boroughs in England and Wales.

1833 Britain abolishes slavery in all its colonies.

1837 –1901 Reign of Victoria – at its close the British Empire has expanded to almost one-fifth of the world land mass and one-quarter of the world population.

1848 Public Health Act mirrors philanthropic activity to improve sanitary conditions and curb cholera.

1860 London General Omnibus Company carrying 40 million passengers a year reflects improvement in suburban transport.

1883 Bribery and other corrupt practices are made illegal at elections.

1911 Parliament Act restricts powers of House of Lords.

1918 Fourth Reform Act gives vote to men over twenty-one and a substantial measure of suffrage to women over thirty.

1928 All women over twenty-one win vote.

1940 Battle of Britain, in which RAF Fighter Command prevents Nazi invasion of England during the second world war.

 1942 Beveridge Report forms basis for postwar social reconstruction and a comprehensive social security system.

1944 Education Act compels local authorities to provide secondary education, rises school-leaving age to fifteen and paves way for further educational reforms.

1975 and 1986 Sex Discrimination Acts make discrimination between men and women unlawful in employment, education and other spheres.

Task 2. Answer the questions:

1) What dates are very important and what are less important?

2)    Which fact influenced the history more?

3)    Can you continue the list of dates?

Task 3. Brush up your memory and make the list of the main events in the Russian history in chronological order.

III. Discussion

Task 1. Divide into 4 groups and compare the main events in the history of two countries.