Конспект уроку на тему Famous Artists. Pablo Picasso. Vincent van Gogh

Lesson aim: to talk about famous people;

Objectives: - to develop reading and speaking skills on the topic «Biographies of famous people».

- to practise using Past Simple;

- to teach to describe painting and how students feel about the pieces of art;

- to encourage to work in pairs and groups;

- to arouse the students’ interest in art and famous artists;

Learning outcomes:

By the end of the lesson the students are expected:

- to be able to ask and answer questions in Past Simple about the artists’ lives and work;

- to be able to make comparison / to identify similarities and differences in biographies of the artists;

- to have practised scanning reading of a biography text;

- to have practised using new vocabulary (regular and irregular verbs)

 Teaching aids and materials: Course book « Solutions Elementary» 2-nd edition (OUP) by Tim Falla, Paul A Davies, pictures of some paintings by Kateryna Bilokur and Mariya Pryimachenko;

LESSON PROCEDURE

Time

Teacher Activity

Learner Activity

Interaction

T-S/S-S

Stage Aim

4 min

I. Lead in /Warming up.

Describing the paintings 1-6 (see Appendix 1).

 – asks questions

What can you see?

What is happening?

What colours did the artist use?

-look at the paintings and describe them answering the teacher’s questions;

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- to involve students into the lesson;

5 min

II. Main part.

- Pairing

(Students get cards of two shapes (e.g. triangles and squares) and of different colours) Students make pairs according to the colour. 

1. Problem-solving activity.

Which paintings are by Pablo Picasso and which ones are by Vincent Van Gogh?

- asks the students to read the third paragraphs of both texts (see Appendix 2)

- checking the students’ ideas.

-say what they think;

- look through the paragraphs to find the sentences which confirm who were the paintings written by;

pair work

- to practise reading to extract specific information;

- to develop thinking skills;

4 min

2. Reading the texts “Pablo Picasso” and “Vincent Van Gogh”

a) Pre-Reading Activity.

-Do you know anything about the artists and their lives?

-Presentation. New vocabulary

- revising regular and irregular verbs, used in the texts

- respond:

- repeat after the teacher (base and Past Simple forms)

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-to learn what the students know about the famous people;

- to present new vocabulary;

-to practise pronunciation;

- to teach irregular verbs;

10 min

b) While-Reading Activity

- grouping (Students with the cards of the same shape in a group);

- tells the students to draw a table with the questions from Ex.4 p.73SB and spaces for answers about both artists;(see Appendix 3)

-manages  feedbacks in each groups;

Gr1 read the text about Pablo Picasso;

Gr2 –about Vincent van Gogh;

- answer the questions;

- complete one part of the table with information about the artist, whose biography they are reading;

group work

- to practise scanning reading;;

7min

c) Post-Reading Activity

- pairs the students (one student from each group, the same colour);

- gives instructions to swap information about the artists;

- ask and answer the questions;

- complete the second part of the table;

pair work

- to exchange information;

- to practise using Past Simple;

9 min

Speaking

d) Comparison task: finding similarities and differences.

- elicits information;

- find similarities and differences in facts, using the information from the table;

individual

- to develop speaking skills;

- to teach to analyse facts and make conclusions;

2 min

1 min.

1 min

III. Ending

1. –demonstrates some paintings by the famous Ukrainian artists  Kateryna Bilokur and Mariya Pryimachenko.(see Appendix 4) 

Do you like these paintings? Why?

Do you know who painted them?

b) Home assignment:

 Look up a biography of one of the Ukrainian artists on the Internet and write a short text about their life and work. (Answer as many questions as you can from exercise 4 p.73 SB);

c) Assessment and evaluation.

express their opinions;

-write down the home assignment

in their day books;

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• to make students interested in the works of art;

-to set homework;

2 min

d) Collecting the learners’ feedback.

Which activities did you like? Which ones would you like to practise more in the next lessons? 

-answer the questions.

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-to evaluate the lesson in order to improve.