The aims: to develop communicative skills; to learn vocabulary on the topic; to practice reading and listening; to develop the skills of critical thinking. I.Warming up 1. T. How are you getting on? Ps. Life is going its usual way. Nothing to boast of. Great, thanks. 2. Group work. Match the halves of the sayings cut in two, read and explain the meaning.
5. Read the expressions and words and say what is special about detective stories. criminals and a detective an intriguing and absorbing plot to investigate the case to study the clues to question the witness the motivation of the crime an unexpected outcome to disguise 6. Checking up home work. The pupils had to prepare in groups short presentations of some masters of detective stores (Christie, Chase, Simenon)
8. Work in groups. Write a five-line poem, according to the scheme. 1 – topic 2 – two adjectives 3 – three verbs 4 – a sentence 5 – a synonym to the topic Sherlock Holmes Successful but sad, Investigated the crimes, examined the clues, disguised himself. He was a superb violinist at that. The greatest detective. 7. Reading. T. The greatest master of detective stories is considered to be Sir Arthur Conan Doile Read the text about the writer, making marks according to the “Interactive System of Marks”. X – I didn’t know that… V – I knew that… ? – it was interesting to know that Say what was new for you, what information was familiar to you, what was interesting to know.
III. Заключна частина уроку 1. Homework. Your home task is to write a letter to your pen-friend and share the impressions of the book you have recently read. 2. Summarizing. I'd like to thank you for our lesson. You've worked very good and hard today. You know now a lot about books and writers. Your marks are:... Good-bye!