London
(Английский язык 8 кл. К. И.Кауфман,
М.Ю.Кауфман)
ЗАДАЧИ УРОКА:
Образовательные:
а) провести
практику в речевой деятельности: монологической, диалогической, аудировании;
б) ознакомить учащихся с лексикой по теме «Лондон», расширение словарного
запаса.
Воспитательные: а) развивать интерес к изучению
иностранного языка; б) ознакомить учащихся с достопримечательностями столицы
Великобритании; в) приобщить к культурному и историческому наследию народа
страны изучаемого языка.
Развивающие:
а) развивать
мышление, творческую фантазию, инициативу в осуществлении иноязычной речевой
деятельности; б) повышать удельный вес самостоятельной работы в школе и дома;
в) развивать межпредметную связь (с историей) и познавательный интерес учащихся.
Оборудование: карты Великобритании и Северной
Ирландии, тестовый материал, диск (песня на англ. яз.), фильм «Лондон» .
ПЛАН УРОКА
Т: Good afternoon!
Pupils: Afternoon!
T: Sit down, please.
T: Today we shall speak about London. Your
homework for today's
lesson was to make a project,
"London". I hope your project will be excellent. You should be very
attentive today and at the end of the lesson you will have to fill in the
blanks in the "London" quiz, will watch the film " London"
and speak on this topic. All of you dream of visiting London, and let's hope
that sometime our dream will come true, we'll see one of the greatest cities in
the world.
Let's remember what we know about London.
On the blackboard you can see some small
topics and key words.
Use them, and say few words on each of these themes.
Trafalgar Square British Museum
National
Gallery National Theatre
10, Downing Street The Houses of Parlament
The
Thames Buckingham Palace
Hyde
Park Tate Gallery
St.
James's Park Barbican
Queen Victoria Tower of London
Regent's Park William the Conqueror
Westminster
Abbey Piccadilly
Circus St. Paul’s Cathedral
Sir Christopher Wren
I ЭТАП
The Capital of Great Britain
the first century A.D., was founded by, to
be situated, population, total area.
PI: London, the capital of Great Britain, is
two thousand years old. It is
the largest city in Britain
and one of the largest in the world. Its population is about 9 million people.
It is also a huge port city. It was founded
in the first century A.D. by the Romans. The Romans built a town on the
river Thames. The name of the town was Londinium.
The Romans built Londinium. After the year 400, the Romans left Britain. In
Roman times Londinium was a small town with the Thames River at its centre.
London is 46 kilometers from the north to the south and 58 kilometers
from the east to the west.
T: Good. What calamites did London suffer?
Calamites
a terrible plague, the Great Fire
P2: In 1665 there was a terrible plague in
London. In 1666
the Great Fire of London ended the plague
but it also destroyed much of the city. In 1666, there was a strong wind from
the river and the big fire began to spread. The fire burnt for four days and
destroyed 80% of the city. After the Great Fire people rebuilt the city.
T: Now let's speak about London as a
political centre.
Political Centre ,
the Houses of Parlament, Buckingham
Palace, 10,Downing Street
P3: The British
Parliament has two houses: the House of Commons and
the House of Lords.
The House of Commons
consists of Members of Parliament, MPs. The 1203 members of
the House of Lords are not elected. The House of Commons
and the House of Lords meet in the Houses of Parliament. The
head of both Houses of Parliament is the Queen, but she has very little
power. Her Majesty Queen and her family live in Buckingham Palace.
The leader of the winning party becomes
Prime Minister and
appoints the Cabinet. The members of the Cabinet are the
leading
government ministers. The Prime Minister is the most
important
person in Parliament British Prime Ministers have lived at
10, Downing Street since 1731.
T: Nice. Who wants to tell us about London as an industrial
centre?
Industrial Centre
firms, plants, to produce, goods
London is the centre of the
clothing, food and drink industries. Small firms predominate in all these
industries. London is an important centre
of light engineering and chemicals and has some
heavy
engineering plants.
T: Right you are. Now speak about London as a cultural
centre.
Cultural Centre
museums, theatres, libraries, parks
P4: There are a lot of
museums in London. The most important museums
in London are: the British
Museum, the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery
and the Victoria and Albert Museum. London is famous for its theatres.
The best known are the National Theatre and Barbican. There are also a lot of
green parks and libraries in London. The most important libraries are: the
British Museum Library, the London Library
in St. James Square and Kensington's New Central Library;
T: Very good. Now let's speak about the main
parts of London.
Main Parts
the City, the West End, the East End
P5: London consists of three main parts: the
City, the West End and the
East End. The City is the
most important commercial and financial centre of the country. There are banks
and offices of companies in the City. The West End is a district of the
theatres, bars, restaurants and hotels. In
the East End there are most of the factories and docks.
T: Nice. Now let's speak about education in
London.
Educational Centre
universities, colleges, young people,
different countries
P6: We can say that London is an educational
centre. Many young
people from different
countries come to London to get a brilliant
education.
T: Good. The next topic is about sport and transport.
Sport and Transport Centre
sport facilities, swimming pools, railway
stations, airports, ports
P6: There are a lot of sport facilities in
London such as stadiums,
swimming pools. Transport in London is
extensive. You can see many buses, cars, taxis and the London Underground.
There are many railway stations and four airports in London. Heathrow is the
busiest international airport in the world.
II ЭТАП
T: The next point is the sights of London.
T: And now imagine, my dear friends, we are
going on an excursion
round London.
На экране идут слайды с видами Лондона и учащиеся комментируют их.
Примерные ответы учащихся:
PI: The Tower of London is a very old building. It is nine hundred
years old. In the early days of England
the British (English) kings
lived in the Tower. Then it was a prison. Now it's a museum of
Armour and Royal Regalia. Many tourists from other countries
come to see it.
Р2: Westminster Abbey is a symbol of English tradition at its
best.
The
coronation of nearly all English kings and queens since William the Conqueror has taken place here. Many
of them are buried within the Abbey. There are also
the graves of famous poets,writers, and statesmen. Here
you can see memorials to Newton,Darwin, Dickens, Chaucer
and others.
Р3: St. Paul’s Cathedral is the city's greatest monument. It
was built by Sir Christopher Wren in 1675-1710. The Cathedral is second in size
only to St. Peter's in Rome. Wren is buried
there, also Wellington and Nelson.
P4: Buckingham
Palace
is an official residence of the Queen and her family. It has 600 rooms,
a swimming pool, a cinema, a ballroom, and a garden. The ceremony of the Changing of
the Guard atBuckingham Palace is a great tourist
attraction. It takes place daily at 11.30 a.m. and lasts
half an hour.
P5: The Houses
of Parliament. It was
once a royal palace. Now it's the
seat
of Government. It contains 500 apartments.
P6: Big
Ben is the name of the
huge clock in one of the tall towers of the Houses of
Parliament. The Houses of Parliament is the largest modern building
in the richest Gothic style completed in 1857. It stands on the left
bank of the River Thames and is 940 ft in length. Those who want to
get a fine front view of the building should look at it from a boat on the
Thames. Clock Tower, overlooking Westminster Bridge is 316 ft high
and 40 ft square. People are allowed to get inside the Tower so that
they can see the works of Big Ben. There is no lift and there are three
hundred and forty steps up to Big Ben. The faces of the clock are very
large. The minute hand is 14 ft long, the hour hand is 9 ft, the figures
are 2 ft long.
P7: Trafalgar Square is in the centre of London. In the middle
of Trafalgar
Square is Nelson's Column. Admiral Nelson defeated the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
This Column is fifty meters high.
It's a famous square where on New Year's Eve people gather to
celebrate.
P8: The National Gallery. It houses one of the finest art
collections in
the world.
It has a collection of paintings by the famous artists Van Gogh, Rubens, Constable and many others.
P9: The
British Museum opened in 1753. It grew out of collections of three rich men. George II gave the royal
library to the museum in
1757.
The collection is enormous, and covers ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, China and Japan, as well as
prehistoric times.
P10: Hyde Park is one of the wonderful parks in London.
On the north of Hyde Park there is a very famous place
called
"Speaker's Corner", where on Sundays any person can
talk on any
subject.
Pll: Regent's Park is
perhaps London's most elegant park. You can visit the Zoo
here. It is one of the biggest zoos in the world. Today there are more
than 8,000 animals in the Zoo.
III ЭТАП
T: Thanks a lot. There are many songs about
London. Let's sing one of
them "Streets of
London". (Учащиеся поют песню на англ. яз.)
IV ЭТАП
Т: Good. Did you enjoy our excursion? What
places of interest in
London do you like best? Let's do a test. Тест: "London"
1. You can see the column with a statue
of Nelson in ...
a) Piccadilly Circus; b) Hyde
Park; c) Trafalgar Square.
2. ... is a very democratic park.
a) Hyde Park; b) Regent's
Park; c) St. James's Park.
3. London Zoo is in ...
a) Regent's Park; b) St. James's Park; c)
Hyde Park.
4. They change the Guard every day at...
a) 9:30 a. m.; b) 11:30 а. т.; с) 12 o'clock.
5. Piccadilly Circus is the meeting-point of...
a) 5 streets; b) 7 streets; c) 6 streets.
6. The London home of the Queen is ...
a) Buckingham Palace; b) Westminster
Abbey; c) Covent Garden.
7. The seat of the British government is ...
a) the Houses of Parliament; b) Buckingham
Palace; c) Piccadilly Circus.
VЭТАП
T: Thank you very much. You have worked well
today. Your home-
work
for the next lesson is to prepare a short story about London. Good-bye, my friends.
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