Урок домашнього читання "Four blue chairs"
План-конспект уроку англійської мови
Тема: Урок домашнього читання. FOUR BLUE CHAIRS
Мета: вдосконалювати лексичні навички читання та говоріння, тренувати школярів у пошуковому читанні, вдосконалювати навички використання раніше вивчених ЛО в усному мовленні; розвивати мовні та інтелектуальні здібності школярів, їх увагу та пам’ять, навчати учнів критичному мисленню, вчити логічно будувати висловлювання та викладати свої думки, залучати школярів до діалогу культур, розширювати учнівський кругозір, мотивувати бажання школярів брати участь в іншомовному спілкуванні, вчити розуміти важливе значення іноземної мови як засобу спілкування; виховувати ціннісне ставлення до сім’ї, вчити культури спілкування, прийнятої в сучасному світі.
Хід уроку
1. Організаційний момент. Налаштування на сприйняття іншомовного матеріалу.
T.: Good morning, nice to see you. How are you today? What date is it today? Is somebody absent today?
2. Мовленнєва розминка. Розвиток артикуляційних навичок.
T.: Why do think the first month of married life is called “honeymoon”? What makes this short period of life so different from the following days, months, years?
3. Повідомлення теми уроку. Мотивація навчальної діяльності.
T.: Which adjectives would you put in the first column of the table and which in the second? Which will be suitable for both?
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When married for less than a year |
When married for years |
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Boring, enthusiastic, fair, difficult, longing, astonished, ideal, amiable, delicate, serious, empty, ridiculous, mocking, bored, furious, comfortable, acceptable, lovely, loving, embarrassed, nervous, impatient, patient, generous, tender.
4. Підготовка до читання тексту. Налаштування на сприйняття матеріалу. Дотекстова робота.
T.: The story you are going to read is called “Four Blue Chairs”. Here are the first and the last sentences of the story. What could it be about? Discuss various possibilities
“After a lunch of soup, bread and tomato salad, John and Dina go out on to the street”.
“…Then they will go to the bed and in the morning at breakfast time, when they put the butter and jam and marmalade out, the four blue chairs will be there, around the table of their love. ”
Make sure you know the Ukrainian equivalents of the following word combinations from the text and try to remember the situations in which they were used.
To be keen to do smth; to be used to doing things together; there is no going back; to take an interest in smth; to be a good choice as smb; to be not in the sale; to have smth go wrong; to cry with laughter; to be better off; to sigh with relief; to make smb nervous; to long for smth; take it easy; to calm down; to lose track of time; to agree on.
5. Читання тексту.
T.: I give you the cards with text and you have to read it. (Додаток)
6. Післятекстова робота. Перевірка розуміння прочитаного.
1)T.: Are these statements about the story true or false?
- Both John and Dina were married for the first time.
- They are young and inexperienced in life.
- At the beginning of the story they are on holiday.
- They live in a rented flat and they more or less like their rooms and the furniture.
- They often disagree with each other.
- John is pleased everything Dina does.
- They didn’t take the taxi to take the chairs home because it was expensive.
- People in the streets looked at John and they seemed to be mocking at him.
- John had to carry the chairs himself all the way home.
- The episode with the chairs didn’t affect their relationship.
2) Complete the given statements according to the story.
- The married couple wanted to buy the chairs because….
- It was difficult for John to get used to one of Dina’s habits, namely….
- John and Dina decided to buy blue chairs because….
- They had to carry their chairs home as….
- With the box on his head John looked like….
3) Find all the words from the story referring to the topic “Food and Meals” and speak about John’s and Dina’s preferences. How important are they in the context of the story?
7. Розвиток навичок діалогічного мовлення.
T.: Discuss the following
- Do you think John and Dina “lived happily ever after”? Why? /Why not?
- What do you think is the difference between a “house” and “home”? What does “home” mean to you?
- How did John and Dina try to make their house their home?
- Give the character sketches of John and Dina. Are their characters completely different or can you find some common traits in them?
Have you ever got a situation similar to the one, described in the story? How did you feel then: angry? embarrassed? Helpless?
8. Підведення підсумків уроку. Домашнє завдання.
Бесіда в режимі T-P-T.
T.: Your homework is to comment on the final sentence of the story. What do the four blue chairs stand for?
After a lunch of soup, bread and tomato salad, John and Dina go out on to the street.
At the bottom of the steps they stop for a moment and he slips hisarm through hers as he always does.
They have been keen to establish little regularities, to confirm that they are used to doing things together.
Today the sun beats down and the city street seems deserted, as if everyone but them has gone on holiday.
At the moment, however, they feel they are ona kind of holiday themselves.
They would prefer to carry blankets, cushions, the radio and numerouslotions out on to the patio.
Weeds push up between the paving stones and cats lie on the creeper at the top of the fence as the couple lie there in the afternoons reading, drinking
fizzy lemonade and thinking over all that has happened.
Except that the store has rung to say the four blue chairs areready.
They can't wait for them to be delivered, but must fetch them thisafternoon
because Henry is coming to supper tonight.
They shoppedyesterday: of the several meals they have learned to prepare, they will havesalmon steaks, broccoli, new potatoes and three-bean salad.
Henry will be their first dinner guest.
In fact he will be their first visitor.
John and Dina have been in the rented flat two and a half months already andmost of the furniture, if not what they would have chosen themselves, isacceptable, particularly the bookshelves in all the rooms, which they havewiped down with wet
cloths.
Dina is intending to fetch the rest of her booksand her desk, which pleases him.
After that, it seems to him, there will be no going back.
The wooden table in the kitchen is adequate.
Three people couldsit comfortably around it to eat, talk and drink.
They have two brightlycoloured table-cloths, which they bought in India.
They have started to put their things on the table, mixed up together.
She willset something out, experimentally, and he will look at it as if to say, what'sthat, and she watches him; then they look at one another and an agreementis reached, or not.
Their pens, for instance, are now in a shaving mug; her vase is next to it; his plaster Buddha appeared on the table this morning andwas passed without
demur.
The picture of the cat was not passed but shewon't remove it at the moment, in
order to test him.
There are photographsof them together, on the break they took a year ago when
they were both still living with their former partners.
There are photographs of his children.
But, at the moment, there is only one kitchen chair and neither of them wantsto sit on the narrow seat and hard back.
John has said that Henry, whom she met once before at a dinner given by oneof
his friends, will take an interest in the blue chairs with the cane seats.
Henry will take an interest in almost anything, if it is presentedenthusiastically.
It has only been after some delicate but amiable discussion that they finallyagreed to go ahead with
Henry.
John and Dina like to talk.
Most of the time they talk.
In fact she gave up her job so they could talk more.
Sometimes they do it with their faces pressed together; sometimes with their backs to one another.
They go to bed early so they can talk.
It is part of how they enjoy one another.
The one thing they don't like is disagreement.
They imagine that ifthey start disagreeing they will never stop, and that there will be war.
Theyhave had wars and they have almost walked out on one another on several occasions. But it is the disagreements they have had before, with other people, and thefear
that they will return, that seem to be making them nervous at themoment.
But they have agreed that Henry will be a good choice as a first guest.
He lives nearby and he lives alone.
He loves being asked out.
As he works near Carluccio's he will bring exotic cakes.
There won't be any silences, difficult or otherwise.
They first saw the blue chairs four days ago.
They were looking for an Indianrestaurant nearby, and were discussing their ideal Indian menu, how theywould choose the dall from this restaurant on King Street, and the bhunaprawn from the takeaway on the Fulham Road, and so on, when they driftedinto Habitat.
Maybe they were tired or just felt indolent, but in the big storethey found
themselves sitting in various armchairs, on the sofas, at the tables,and even lying in the deckchairs, imagining they were together in this or thatplace by the sea or in
the mountains, occasionally looking at one another, faraway across the shop, or closer, side by side, thinking in astonishment, this ishim, this is her, the one I've
chosen, the one I've wanted all this time, and nowit has really started, everything I have wished for is today.
There seemed to be no one in the shop to mind their ruminations.
They lost track of time.
Then a shop assistant stepped out from behind a pillar.
And thefour blue wooden chairs, with the cane seats -after much sitting down,standing up and shuffling of their bottoms - were agreed on.
There wereother chairs they wanted, but it turned out they were not in the sale,
and they had to take these cheaper ones.
As they left, Dina said she preferred them.
He said that if she preferred them, he did too.
Today on the way to the store she insists on buying a small frame and apostcard of a flower to go in it.
She says she is intending to put this on the table.
'When Henry's there?' he asks.
'Yes.'
During the first weeks of their living together he has found himself balking atthe way she does certain things, things he had not noticed during their affair, or hadn't
had time to get used to.
For instance the way she likes to eat sittingon the front steps in the evening.
He is too old for bohemianism, but he can'tkeep saying no to everything and he
has to sit there with pollution going intohis bowl of pasta and the neighbours
observing him, and men looking at her.
He knows that this is part of the new life he has longed for, and at these timeshe
feels helpless.
He can't afford to have it go wrong.
The assistant in the store says he will fetch the chairs and they will be ready downstairs in a few minutes.
They wait.
At last two men bring the chairs outand stand them at the store exit.
The couple are surprised to see that thechairs haven't come individually, or with
just a little wrapping.
They are in two long brown boxes, like a couple of coffins.
John has already said they can carry the chairs to the tube, and then do the same
from there to the flat.
It isn't far.
She thought he was being flippant.
She can see now that he was serious.
To show how it must be done, and indeed that it is possible, he gets a goodgrip on one box, kicks it at
the- bottom, and shoves it right out of the shop andthen along the smooth floor of the shopping centre, past the sweet seller andthe old women sitting on benches and the
security guard.
At the exit he turns and sees her standing in the shop entrance, watching him, laughing.
He thinks how lovely she is and what a good time they always have together.
She starts to follow him, pushing her box as he did his.
He continues, thinking that this is how they will do it, they will soon be at thetube station.
But outside the shopping mall, on the hot pavement, the boxsticks.
You can't shove cardboard along on concrete; it won't go.
That morning she suggested they borrow a car. He had said they wouldn't be able to park nearby.
Perhaps they would get a taxi. But outside it is a one-way street, going in the wrong direction.
He sees that there are no taxis. The boxes wouldn't fit in anyway.
Out there on the street, in the sun, he squats a little.
He gets his arms around the box. It is as if he is hugging a tree. Making involuntary and regrettable sounds, he lifts it right up. Even if he can't see where he is going, even if hisnose is pushed into the cardboar, he is carrying it, he is moving. They are still on their way.
He doesn't get far. Different parts of his body are resisting. He will ache tomorrow.
He puts the box down again. In fact he almost drops it.
He looks back to see that Dina is touching the corners of her eyes, as if she is cryingwith laughter.
Truly it is a hot afternoon and it was a rotten idea to inviteHenry over.
He is about to shout back at her, asking her whether she has any better ideas,but watching her, he can see that she does. She is full of better ideas about everything.
If only he trusted her rather than himself, thinking he is alwaysright, he would be better off.
She does this remarkable thing.
She lifts her box on to her hip and, holding itby the cardboard flap, starts to walk with it.
She walks right past him, statelyand upright, like an African woman with a goat
on her shoulders, as if this is the most natural thing. Off she goes towards the tube. This, clearly, is how to do it.
He does the same, the whole African woman upright stance.
But after a few steps the flap of the cardboard rips. It rips right across and the box drops to the ground.
He can't go on. He doesn't know what to do.
He is embarrassednow, and thinks people are looking at him and laughing.
People are indeeddoing this, looking at him with the box, and at the beautiful woman with theother box.
And they look back at him and then at her, and they are splittingtheir sides, as if
nothing similar has ever happened to them.
He likes to thinkhe doesn't care, that he is strong enough at his age to withstand
mockery.
Buthe sees himself, in their eyes, as a foolish little man, with the things he has
wanted and hoped for
futile and empty, reduced to the ridiculous shoving ofthis box along the street in
the sun forever.
You might be in love, but whether you can get four chairs home together isanother matter.
She comes back to him and stands there. He is looking away and is furious. She says there's only one thing for it.
'All right,' he says, an impatient man trying to be patient.
'Let's get on with it.'
'Take it easy,' she says.
'Calm down.'
'I’m trying to,' he replies.
'Squat down,' she says.
'What?'
'Squat down.'
'Here?'
'Yes. Where do you think?'
He squats down with his arms out and she grips the box in the tree-huggingpose and tips it and lays it across his hands and on top of his head.
Then, withthis weight pushing down into his skull he attempts to stand, as
Olympic weightlifters do,
using their knees. But unlike those Olympic heroes he finds himself pitching forward.
People in the vicinity are no longer laughing. They are alarmed and shouting warnings and scattering.
He is staggeringabout with the box on his head, a drunken Atlas, and she is
dancing around him, saying, 'Steady, steady.'
Not only that, he is about to hurl the chairs into the traffic.
A man passing by sets the box down for them.
'Thank you,' says Dina.
She looks at John.
'Thank you,' says John sullenly.
He stands there breathing hard. There is sweat on his upper lip. His whole face is damp.
His hair is wet and his skull itching. He is not in good shape. He could die soon, suddenly, as his father did. He reminds himself that he mustenjoy
himself and appreciate things while there is time.
Without looking at her, he picks up the box in the tree-hugging stance andtakes it a few yards, shuffling.
He puts it down and picks it up again. He covers a few more yards. She follows.
Once they are on the tube he suspects they will be all right. It is only one stop.
But when they have got out of the train they find that getting the boxes along the
station is almost impossible. The tree-hugging stance is getting too difficult.
They carry one box between them up the stairs, and then return forthe other.
She is quiet now; he can see she is tiring, and bored with this idiocy.
At the entrance to the station she asks the newspaper seller if they can leaveone of the boxes with him.
They can carry one home together and return for the other. The man agrees.
She stands in front of John with her arms at her side and her hands stuck outlike a couple of rabbit ears, into which the box is then placed.
As they walk hewatches her in her green sleeveless top with a collar, the sling of
her bag crossing her
shoulder, and the back of her long neck. He thinks that if theyhave to put the box
down everything will
fail. But although they stop threetimes, she is concentrat¬ing, they both are, and
they don't put the box
down.
They reach the bottom of the steps. At last they stand the box upright, in thecool
hall, and sigh with
relief. They return for the other box. They have found a method. They carry it out efficiently.
When it is done he rubs and kisses her sore hands. She looks away.
Without speaking they pull the blue chairs with the cane seats from the boxesand
throw the brown
wrapping in the corner. They put the chairs round the table and look at them. They sit on them.
They place themselves in this position and that. They put their feet up on them.
They change the table-cloth.
'This is good,' he says.
She sits down and puts her elbows on the table, looking down at the table-cloth.
She is crying. He touches her hair.
He goes to the shop for some lemonade and when he gets back she hastaken off her shoes and is lying flat out on the kitchen floor.
'I'm tired now,' she says.
He makes her a drink and places it on the floor.
Then he lies down beside her with his hands under his head.
After a time she turns to him and strokes his arm.
'Are you OK?' he says.
She smiles at him.
'Yes.'
Soon they will open the wine and start to make supper; soon Henry will arrive and they will eat and talk.
Then they will go to bed and in the morning at breakfast time, when they putthe butter and jam and marmalade out, the four blue chairs will be there, around the table of their love.
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