Конспект уроку "Legendary Beatles"

Legendary Beatles

Objectives:

1) to develop oral speech skills;

2) to enrich the vocabulary;

3) to train reading comprehension;

4) to practise listening for specific information;

5)to practise making timelines;

6) to get acquainted with the life and work of the legendary English group.

Procedure

1.              Warm Up

Group work

Class is divided into two groups: CELEBRITIES and REPORTERS. Celebrities go to the board and present themselves. Reporters are given the questions to ask the Stars. After the interview they will tell  short stories based on the information they receive from the Celebrities.

Questions that are supposed to be cut and distributed among the students.

«MUSIC»

CLASS SURVEY

Make a survey of your classmates.

Ask them the question you have in your personal card.

Use:

Hello!             

May I ask you a question?

Excuse me, could you tell me…

I’m interested in…

Will you tell me … , please?    

Sure. Go ahead!

2.Vocabulary Activation

Recently we have learned a lot of interesting information about the life styles of different people, your classmates and even nationalities. Today we are going to get acquainted with the life of the outstanding group which became legendary one.

Find out the secret message!

Key:

Lennon

Paul

Song

Liverpool

England

Popularity

John

Concert

Magic

Love

Secret  message: Love me do

3.             Reading Practice

Love me do is the name of the song of the Beatles. Now you are going to watch and read the presentation with some useful information.

•                 Pre-reading task

Before reading the text let’s get acquainted with the unknown words. Repeat after me the correct pronunciation.(the students arte given the cards with the words)

VOCABULARY

Drummer - барабанщик

line-up - розстановка

replaced - замінений

released - випущений

have arguments - сперечатися

onwards – надалі

disbanded - розформований

Cancer - рак

Occasionally – іноді

•                 While-reading activity

While reading the text your task will be to complete the time line.

TIME  LINE

1956- John Lennon formed ‘The Quarry Men’in Liverpool with his friend Stuart Sutcliffe.

1957-

1959-

1960-

1962-

1963-

60s-

1969-

1975-

1980-

2001-

Paul Mc Cartny and Ringo Starr-

Read the following  presentation

•                 Post-reading task

Now tell everything you remember  about the life and work of the Beatles .You may use your time line to help you.

4.          Listening Practice.

You’ve received enough information about the life style of the famous group today. And now you will listen to one of their best songs to get acquainted with their art.

•                 Pre-listening task

Look at the pictures and try to guess what the song will be about.

•                 While listening activity

Listen and watch a video to the song.Fill in the blanks in the song.

The Beatles

YELLOW SUBMARINE

In the   …  where I was born

Lived a   …  who sailed to sea

And he told us of his  …

In the land of  …

So we sailed up to the  …

Till we found the sea of …

And we   …  beneath the  waves

In our   …     …

CHORUS:

We all  …  in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine

We all  …  in a yellow submarine

Yellow submarine, yellow submarine!

And our  …   are all aboard

Many  more of them  …   next door

And the band begins to  …

CHORUS

As we live a   …   of ease

Everyone of us has all we  …

Sky of   …  and sea of  …

In our yellow submarine.

Listen once again and check your answers.

Now let’s read the words of the song.

•                 Post listening task

Let’s sing the song “Yellow Submarine” together with the Beatles.

5.          Setting Hometask

Make a project about Beatles or their songs.