Урок английского языка в 8 классе на тему "История доллара."

План урока английского языка в 8 классе

Тема: История доллара.

Тип урока: комбинированный

Цель: формирование культурно-страноведческой компетенции учащихся.

Задачи урока:

Образовательная: ознакомление с историей становления денежных единиц англоязычных стран, с “крылатыми” выражениями по предложенной теме.

Развивающая: развитие способности к переключению внимания в упражнениях комплексного характера, к логическому изложению, смысловой догадке.

Воспитательная: воспитание у школьников уважительного отношения к истории языковых реалий разных стран.

Ход урока:

1.Орг.момент

Good morning, children!  I am glad to see you. How are you today? What is the weather like today?

            Today we’re going to speak about money again. But not about our “wooden” roubles, but about dollars and pounds.
Everything in the world has its history. On your desks you have sheets of paper with the texts from which you may learn much interesting about the history of dollars and pounds.

2.Фонетическая зарядка

 Be sure that you pronounce all the words in a right way.
Look through the texts and ask questions to each other (Работа с Приложением 1).
3.Работа с текстом

So, you’ve just learned many facts from the history of the dollar and the pound and can share this information with your friends. But we continue to speak about money. You’ve got some materials with word – combinations. You can see that all of them have the word “money” in them.
Try to explain what they mean (Работа с Приложением 1).
There is a great number of interesting proverbs and sayings about money. In your cards find the right variants of translating them. (Приложение 1)
May be, you know any other proverbs? In the list there is one saying which became very popular, but I think, that not all of you know the origin of it. Let me tell you.

4.Работа над стихотворением

Do you like poetry? Do you know many poems? Can you compose poems yourselves? Do you think it’s difficult to write poems? Let’s do it together.

If the weather isn’t sunny,

So you’ve got too little...(money).
When you travel England around,
Then you need not rouble, but...(pound).
If you fly to system solar,
You will surely need...(a dollar)

Of course, it’s a joke. This poem is not serious at all. But the topic of our today’s conversation is, on the contrary, rather serious. I wish you to be healthy and wealthy!

Приложение 1.

The dollar.

The dollar is the basic unit of United States money. It is worth 100 cents.
The dollar is also the main currency unit of: Australia, Canada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Singapore, Zimbabwe and some other countries.
The dollar was adopted in the USA in 1792. The first US dollars were issued in silver and gold. After 1934, however, all gold coins were taken out of circulation. A silver dollar was issued at various times from 1794 until 1935.
The dollar was adopted in Canada in 1878. Australia adopted the dollar in 1966, and New Zealand in 1967.

The pound.

The basic unit of money of the United Kingdom is the pound, also called the pound sterling. Today the pound is equal to 100 pence. the British adopted the decimal system in 1971.
Things were far more complicated in the past. The pound was subdivided into 20 shillings. The shilling was subdivided into 12 pennies. The guinea was equal to one pound one shilling. It was a gold coin used in fixing prices of valuable goods. There also were crowns, 5 – shilling silver coins; halfcrowns worth 2 shillings and 6 pence; florins, 2 – shilling silver coins; bobs worth 12 pence. a sixpence was a 6 – penny coin and a 3 – penny coin was called a “threepence”. There also were “ha’pennies”, copper coins, worth half a penny, and farthings, or quarter – penny coins.

Vocabulary.

adopt – принимать

basic - основной

bob - шиллинг

circulation – обращение

coin – монета

copper - медный

crown – корона

currency – валюта

decimal – десятичный

equal – равный

farthing – фартинг

florin – флорин

halfpenny - полпенса

ha’penny - полпенса

issue – выпускать

shilling – шиллинг

sixpence – монета в 6 пенсов

the (pound) sterling – (фунт) стерлингов

threepence – монета в 3 пенса

worth – стоимость

various - разный

Questions:

5.Говорение

What is the basic unit of money in the USA?

How much is dollar worth?

Where does the dollar circulate?

When was the dollar adopted in the United States?

Were the first dollars issued in copper?

Do gold coins circulate now?

When was the dollar adopted in Canada?

When did Australia and New Zealand adopt the dollar?

What is the basic unit of money in the UK?

When was the decimal system adopted in Great Britain?

How many shillings were there in the pound before 1971?

Was the guinea equal to one pound sterling?

What was the crown equal to?

Were there any copper coins in circulation?

Приложение 2.

6. Лексическая разминка

Explain the meaning of the expressions:

To be bad money To be in the money To coin the money Easy money For my money Hard money Soft money To sink money Dirty money To put one’s money on  a scratched horse

To have a lot of money To invest money in a wrong way The matter not advantageous for investing money To make much money Gold, silver, copper money To invest money into a bad job Money which somebody got without hard work Paper money In my opinion Salary of workers, making dirty job

Translate from Russian into English:

Я думаю, что это невыгодное дело.

Не беспокойся, у меня достаточно денег.

Мне кажется, что он “кует деньги”.

Старайся не привыкать (get used to) к “легким деньгам”.

По моему мнению, вы должны туда поехать.

Что ты предпочитаешь – металлические или бумажные деньги?

Начать это строительство означает “утопить деньги”.

Я думаю, ты ставишь деньги не на ту лошадку.

Find the right variants:

Деньги на улице не валяются. Деньги могут сделать все. Человек должен распоряжаться деньгами, а не деньги человеком. Деньги, потраченные на образование, никогда не пропадут зря. Деньги не пахнут.

Money has no smell. Money is a good servant but a bad master. Money doesn’t grow on trees. Money answers all things. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.

7. Подведение итогов урока

Write down your home task:

The lesson is over. GoodBye!