Урок англійської мови "Тінейджери та Інтернет"

Topic:  Web blogging

Objectives: Practical: to enrich the vocabulary on the topic "Teens and web blogging”

To teach students to exchange opinions on the subjects of discussion

Developing : to develop students reading skills; to develop free speaking skills ;

Upbringing: to motivate students to analyze problems suggesting their own ideas

Materials needed: the magazine article  "Bloggers bare their soul "

                                                  Procedure

1. Beginning

1) Introduction of the lesson

2) Warming-up

T. Answer the questions :

Do you keep diary ?

Why do people keep diaries ?

Is there any difference between a personal and a public diary ?

2. The main part

Reading  activity

Pre-reading  activity

Vocabulary

Check that you understand  the words from  today's article

Prediction

Look at the headline of the article: "Bloggers bare their soul".

What do you think "to bare one's soul " is ?

Write down your own definition. Discuss with other students the variants of definition Decide which definition makes the best sense.

What will the article be about ?

While-reading  activity

Метод "Позначки"

Read the text and fill in the following  table:

Bloggers  bare their souls

Internet users chronicle their inner lives in public

By Deborah Branscum Newsweek

    If you want reality, forget "Survivor ? Check out Weblogs: public online journals that can be racy, inventing and alarmingly blunt. The update –often  daily – let fans follow every twist and turn in author's life. In Tennessee, Meghan O"Hara has been working up the courage to ask Alex out for a date- a mere eight years after she firs got a crush on him in high school. Writing from the Netherlands, American Rachel James shared an erotic Valentine's Day surprise engineered by her Dutch boyfriend. And it wasn't a teddy.

    Online diaries aren't new. Ryan Kawailani, who created Diarist.net, traces the earliest Web journal to January 1995. Later Weblogs, or blogs, were born. These are personal sites..that organize links to other Web content on a particular topic of interest. Early bloggers needed to know HTM and have access to a network server. That began to change in 1990 with easy Web tools and free hosting sites.

These snapshots of life, and, perhaps, fantasy- can be strangely addictive. Unsurprisingly, some of the longest running journals belong to techies. O"Hara, for example, is a Web designer. She describes her breasts, piercing, smoking habit and height in her on-line diary. O"Hara has been chronicling her life since 1995, when she was a first -year college student. She claims to be shy in real life…

     So far there is not much commercial interest in Weblogs; companies hosting these sites attract users but not cash. But according to one practitioner, Weblogs aren't about making money; they are about revolutionizing  communication.

Dave Winer, a veteran Silicon Valley ,entrepreneur and  founder of many weblogs. For him, Weblogs are a crusade. "I am interested in creating of new form of journalism" – he says. "I don't trust the media sources. The TV networks and magazines."

    Will weblogs change journalism ? They'll do more than that, if you believe Winer."We need to gain consciousness as a society" he says, "and one of the best ways to do that is to start talking and also to listen. There are 6 billion people on the planet, and if everyone on the planet had a Weblog, we'd be better off". Six billion people sharing their secrets and fears? Now, there's an idea for a reality show.

Post-reading  activity

Oral  speech. Discussion.

Analyze the problem:  Writing private diaries on the Net : tactless thing or really revolution of communication ? Use different hats of thinking :

Summing-Up

Home Assignment : to prepare to speak on the following topic "Writing private diaries on the Net : tactless thing or really revolution of communication ?"