Серия упражнений и заданий для развития умений в чтении на материале документальной биографии Билла Гейтса.

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ А

 

 

Для разработки упражнений и заданий для развития умений в чтении на материале документальной биографии в 10 классе нами была взята документальная биография Билла Гейтса.

Представленная документальная биография, а также задания и упражнения к ней дополняют модуль 8 «Technology». При изучении и анализе УК «Spotlight 10» мы обнаружили, что в данном модуле отсутствуют тексты документальной биографии. Ниже нами описывается фрагмент урока по теме «ICT Geniuses», соотносящийся с тематикой модуля и основанный на тексте биографического жанра. Задания распределены по трем этапам, описанным в параграфе 2.1.

I. ПРЕДТЕКСТОВЫЙ ЭТАП

1) Look at the pictures. How do you think, what is our topic will be about? (technology). Could you name any names of computer geniuses? Characterize them in brief.

2) Look at the picture (ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕА). Who is it? What do you think the article is about?

3) Decide which type this text belongs to: a CV, a biography or a novel? Why?

4) What do you know about Bill Gates? What is Bill Gates famous for? Fill in the mind-map (обучающиеся составляют ассоциативную карту на основе тех знаний о Б. Гейтсе, которые у них имеются).

5) Read the statements and try to answer the question: what is the main idea of the text?

- Bill Gates is one of the richest men alive.

- Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard to create Microsoft with friend Paul Allen.

- In 2014, Gates stepped down as Microsoft's chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

6) Do you know meanings of these words and word combination?

software business, subsequently, Microsoft's chairman, charitable work, outgoing student, Puget Sound, a brief career, the First Interstate Bank in Seattle, International Business Machines (IBM), a voracious reader, blossom, a tic-tac-toe program in BASIC computer language, MITS, the CEO of IBM,rivalry, the MS-DOS system.

7) Think of three questions you would like to ask about Bill Gates.

II. ТЕКСТОВЫЙЭТАП

1. Приемы развития умений в ознакомительном чтении.

8) Answer the question in the headline of the 1^st paragraph.

9) Match the headline with the paragraph: Personal Life; Home; Awards; Who Is Bill Gates? Early Life; Education; Founding Microsoft; Alzheimer's Research.

10) Answer the question in the headline of the 1^st the paragraph

2. Приемы развития умений в поисковом чтении.

11) What is the problem in the text?

12) Find out in the text the information about Bill`s / Bill`s mother / Allen`s character / appearance / life style.

3. Приемы развития умений в изучающем чтении.

13) Read the plan of the text. Does it belong to the text?

Plan

a) Early life and childhood of Bill Gates.

b) Education.

c) Meeting and Partnering With Paul Allen.

d) Microsoft

e) Personal Life and Wealth.

f) The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

g) Coronavirus

h) Awards.

14) Put the questions according to the content of the text.

-Which atmosphere was in the family?

- Was he constantly checking to see if the people around him were really convinced of their ideas?

- What was the cause of Gates' wealth briefly topped $101 billion?

- What do you know about his personal life?

15) Read and mark the sentences true or false.

- Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates founded and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft.

- Gates was born William Henry Gates III on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington.

- The Gates family atmosphere was cold and close, and all five children were encouraged to be competitive and strive for excellence.

- Mum would often take Gates along when she volunteered in schools and at community organizations.

- Gates graduated from Lakeside in 1963.

- Gates enrolled at Oxford University in the fall of 1973, originally thinking of a career in law.

- In 1975, Gates and Allen formed Micro-Soft, a blend of "micro-computer" and "software" (they dropped the hyphen within a year).

16) Put the facts in order of importance.

18) Choose the right answer.

- When was Bill Gates born?

a) October 28, 1955

b) November 31, 1955

c) October 28, 1954

- Where was born William Henry Gates III?

a) Washington

b) Seattle

c) New York

- In what family did Gates grow up?

a) poor family

b) upper – middle - class family

c) middle - class family

- When did his parents enroll him at Seattle's exclusive preparatory Lakeside School?

a) 13

b) 10

c) 9

- Gates graduated from Lakeside in …

a) 1963

b) 1960

c) 1973

- Gates enrolled at Harvard University in the fall of 1973...

a) 1973

b) 1960

c) 1975

- Gates wants to be a …

a) doctor

b) mechanic

c) lawyer 

- Where did Allen and Gates spend much of their free time together?

a) working on program

b) reading books

c) resting in the pub

- When Gates and Allen contacted the company, proclaiming that they were working on a BASIC software program that would run the Altair computer.

a) yes

b) no

c) doesn`t say

- When Micro-Soft, a blend of "micro-computer" and "software", was formed?

a) 1975

b) 1985

c) 1977

III. ПОСЛЕТЕКСТОВЫЙЭТАП

На послетекстовом этапе перед нами стоят следующие задачи: использование ситуации текста в качестве языковой / речевой/ содержательной опоры для развития умений в устной и письменной речи.

19) Говорение. Диалог. «Questions to the characters». Обучающиеся придумывают вопросы к Биллу Гейтсу по тексту. Затем разбиваются на группы. Один представитель из группы выступает в роли Б. Гейтса и отвечает на вопросы одноклассников из других групп.

20) Characterize Bill Gates in three sentences. Данное задание может быть проведено как в устной форме, так и в письменной.

21) Говорение. Монологическая речь. Retell the text as you are the main character.Обучающиеся работают в парах. Учитель засекает время (1мин). Первый обучающийся (S1) задает вопрос по биографическому тексту, используя лексику урока. Второй обучающийся (S2) отвечает на вопрос. Задача S1 услышать ошибки в речи S2. Если S1 заметил ошибку, то говорит “Stop” и называет ошибку. Далее обучающиеся меняются ролями.