МЕТОДИЧНА РОЗРОБКА БРЕЙН-РИНГУ НА ТЕМУ: “Welcome to Australia ”

 

 

 

МЕТОДИЧНА РОЗРОБКА

БРЕЙН-РИНГУ

НА ТЕМУ:

 

“Welcome to Australia ”

 

 

 

Вчитель англійської мови Веселинівської ЗОШ І- ІІІ ступенів Миколаївської області Латій Ольга Олександрівна

 

 

 

 

 

 

Aims:  

 to activate key vocabulary on the topic “Australia”;  to activate and broaden students’ knowledge of the topics;

to provide opportunities for developing  students’ basic skills through interactive methods of work ( group work, etc.); to help students consolidate and cooperate  in different situations;

to develop students’ socio-cultural competence, imagination, creative abilities and culture of communication;

to foster the desire to participate in competitive intellectual activities.

 

Equipment:  “An introduction to Australia” (HO1),“Australia’s Map”, (HO2), “What do you know about Australia?” (HO3), “Australian Cities” (HO4), " Dictionary of Aussie Slang"(HO5), “Australian Icons” (HO6),  counters,  indicator panel

 

Procedure

I.  Greeting &  Aim 

1.  T.: Good morning! I’m glad to see you at our brain-ring today. How are you? Fine. I hope you will be active and supportive today. We are going to have a competition between two teams to get to know what team knows about Australia more and moreover we’ll find out who is the best learner of this country. Let’s greet our teams and start our contest.

2. T.: Teams, greet each other. Tell us your names and mottoes. (The teams tell their names and mottoes.)

 T.: Now let’s greet our Judges. They are…

 

II. Instruction    

T.: Our today’s contest has 6 rounds. The main goal for teams in every round to get as many counters as possible. The team having more counters wins. Besides, every participant has to collect his or her counters which he or she will get for every correct answer and then in the end of the game we’ll find out who is the best learner of Australia. So, we’ll have a team- winner and a player-winner. OK, what are the rounds?

They are

1. “An introduction to Australia ”,
2. “Australia’s Map”,
3. “What do you know about Australia?”,
4. “Australian Cities”,
5. “ Dictionary of Aussie Slang”,
6. “Australian Icons”.

The rules for each round I’ll explain later. So, I’ll wish you to do your best today.

 

III. Game.

T.: We start from “An introduction to Australia”.  On the board you can see fact – files about Australia. You must complete it. Who will be the first?

The first team will be the team which answer this question first.  “What is the Australia’s national floral emblem?” (The golden wattle). OK, great, you will start. The correct answer costs one counter.

 

HO1

“An introduction to Australia”

Continent:__________________________________________________________________

Area:______________________________________________________________________

Coastline:__________________________________________________________________

Climate:___________________________________________________________________

Terrain:____________________________________________________________________

Highest point:_______________________________________________________________

Longest river:_______________________________________________________________

Natural hazards:_____________________________________________________________

Capital:____________________________________________________________________

Population:_________________________________________________________________

Language:__________________________________________________________________

Government:________________________________________________________________Currency:__________________________________________________________________

Important products:__________________________________________________________

 

           T : This time you were better and now next round. In this round you have to label the states and territories. Label the capital city and other major cities.

 

 

HO 2

“Australia’s Map”

T.: You were really active and clever.  You were better and now next second round .The other team will start. In this round you have to answer the questions. The correct answer costs one counter. The teams start to answer the questions. The time for answer is 30 seconds. If your rival doesn’t know the answer the team whose question is must answer it or it costs them one counter.

 

HO3

“What do you know about Australia?”   

 

1. Whom was Australia discovered by? (by  Captain Cook in 1770)
2.  What is the official name of Australia?  (The Commonwealth of Australia )
3. What are the colours of the Australian flag? (red, blue and white)
4. What are the national symbols of Australia? (emu and kangaroo)
5. What areas does Australia have? ( About 8 million square kilometres)
6. What is the capital of Australia? ( Canberra)
7. What does Australia consist of? (Six states and two territories)
8. What is the hottest month in Australia? (January)
9. In what hemisphere is Australia situated? ( The South hemisphere)
10. What is the population of Australia? ( about 20 million )
11. What are the biggest cities in Australia? (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane)
12. What is the main occupation in Australia? (Agriculture)
13. What agricultural product is Australia famous for?  (Sheep)
14.       What are the longest rivers? (The Murray and the Darling)
15.       What is the official language in Australia? (English)
16.       When were the Olympic Games held in Australia? (2000)
17.       Where did they take place? (Sydney)
18.       What animals live in Australia? ( the kangaroo, the dingo, the emu, the platypus, the koala, the echidna, the ostrich)
19.       When did Australia become an independent state? (On January 1, 1901)
20.       Who is formally the head of Australia? (The Queen of England – Elizabeth II)
21.       When do the Australians honour their veterans and people who died during the wars? (on Anzac Day in April)
22.       The first people to live in Australia  are ... ( Aborigines)
23.         Representatives of how many Nations live in Australia? (200)
24.         When do Australians celebrate National Wattle Day? (September, 1)
25.       What can you see from the space?  (Australia)
26.       What is Ulury?( A red rock in a red centre of Australia)
27.       What is the oldest nation living in Australia? ( Aborigines)
28.       How can you describe the nature of Australia? (Wild Beauty)
     

T.: Your questions were rather interesting. It’s useful to know a lot of things, isn’t it?

  You were great and now next round. In this round you have to solve the word search. The correct answer costs two counters.

HO 4

“Australian Cities”

 

 

T	E	N	R	U	O	B	L	E	M
P	X	E	D	I	A	L	E	D	A
O	M	A	N	I	W	R	A	D	E
W	I	M	R	N	B	H	S	N	U
S	F	A	Y	R	O	F	A	S	G
Y	N	T	A	B	E	B	H	G	N
D	S	I	A	E	S	B	I	E	L
N	P	R	V	I	M	Q	N	Q	V
E	T	M	R	U	X	N	D	A	I
Y	V	B	R	H	T	R	E	P	C

 

Adelaide                     Brisbane                              Canberra

Darwin                        Hobart                                 Melbourne

Perth                           Sydney

 

 T. : And now the 5 ^th  round and you will start. In this round you have to match the pairs in 2 minutes. The correct answer costs two counters .Are you ready? Let’s start.

HO 5

“Dictionary of Aussie Slang”

1. Arvo                  a) sheep
2. Mozzie               b) great
3. Snag                   c) football
4. Bonzer               d) good morning
5. Togs                   e) Well done
6. Chook                f) a cup of tea
7. Yabber               g) swimming costume
8. Jumbuck            h) mosquito
9. G’day                  i) talk a lot
10. Moolah               j) friend (male)
11. Onya                   k) money
12. Cuppa                 l) afternoon
13. Footy                     m) chicken
14. Mate                       n)  sausage

 

HO 6 

T. : OK. You were Well done. And now  next  round and  the second team will start. In this round you have to look at the photos and guess the famous Australian icons. The correct answer costs two counters .Are you ready? Let’s start.

 

 “Australian Icons”

(Sydney Opera House, Daintree National Park, Great Barrier Reef, Uluru, Sydney Harbour Bridge, Blue Mountains National Park, Bondi Beach, Great Ocean Road, Fraser Island, Kakadu National Park)

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IV. Summing up, evaluating and giving home assessment.      

T.: Now it’s time to know the winners of today’s brain- ring. Let’s give our judges tell us the results of the contest. (The jury names the winners ( the team and the student) and greets them.) So, as we can see the team”…” has won. They have been the best today.  Our special congratulations to …, who has shown the best knowledge of  English-speaking world.  Let’s congratulate them and wish the rest of the participants’ good luck in our next game. Your home assessment will be to find new interesting facts about Australia and prepare a short report about these facts. And now there’s our ceremony of winners and participants of our holiday.