УРОК "SPORT AND ADVENTURE"

SPORT AND ADVENTURE

Olga Rozhkova,

a teacher of English,

the Educational complex,

Brovary

Topic: A Modest Hero

Level: Pre-Intermediate

Aims:  

• to develop reading and speaking pupils’ skills on the basis of the topic;
• to motivate learners, involving them into the process of communication;
• to practice reading;
• to practice a variety of reading comprehension tasks on people's opinions about the topic;
• to practice vocabulary ;
• to give pupils the opportunity to give their own opinion the subject.

 

Activity: reading exercises: intensive reading, matching activity and multiple choice exercises; interactive activity, speaking - giving own opinion about the subject.

 

I Warm-up

 

II Main  Part:

1. Reading Activities:

1.1.Pre- Reading Activity.

1.2. While Reading Activities.

1.3. After  Reading Activities – vocabulary activities

2. Speaking Activity.

 

III Final Part:

1. Home  Task  Aid

2. Marks  Motivation

 

PROCEDURE

Warm-up

Using Second Conditional students continue the ideas: If I lived near the coast,…..  If I wasn`t scared of heights,… . If I could ski very well,….. Students have to continue the ideas with as many Second Conditional sentences as possible. Elicit ideas in open class.

 

1.1. Pre- Reading Activity.

Task1. In pairs, look at the photo and read the first paragraph of the text.

1. What is special about Janek Mela?
2. Why did he go to Antarctica?
3. Why do you think his story is special?

 

Keys: 1. He is the youngest person to ski unassisted to the North Pole.2. He went to Antarctica to walk to the South Pole. 3. (Students` own answers).

 

1.2. While Reading Activities.

Task2. Read the text and circle the correct answer.

 

MIRICLE OF LOVE

Smile for the world

A Modest Hero

In 2004, Janek Mela became the youngest person in history to ski unassisted to the North Pole. Six months later, Janek travelled to Antarctica with a new goal - to walk to the South Pole. An unbelievable challenge for any teenager. But for the people who knew Janek, his story was even more incredible.
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1. The story really began in 2002, when Janek - who comes from Malbork in Poland - was thirteen years old. He was playing table tennis with some school friends when it suddenly started raining heavily. Most of Janek's friends ran home, but Janek and a friend decided to shelter from the storm in a small building. The building was actually an electricity substation and Janek suffered a shock of 15,000 volts. He lost his left arm and a leg in the accident.

2. Janek spent the next few months in hospital. His parents contacted the famous Polish explorer, Marek Kaminski, who was a family friend. They hoped that Marek could cheer Janek up and encourage him no to lose hope. But Marek came up with a much more ambitious idea - he wanted Janek to make a trek with him to the North Pole.
 

3. After he left hospital, Janek had to catch up with his schoolwork but he also began to train intensively for the expedition. Over the next year and a half, Janek had to learn to swim and ride a bike again. He also took up skiing, which he had never tried before.


4. In May 2004, Janek and Marek set out on the long walk to the North Pole. The weather was horrendous and often after a day's walking they were only two or three kilometres closer to the Pole than the previous day. But on 24 May Janek became the first disabled person to ski unassisted to the North Pole.


5. Janek's Antarctic expedition seven months later was even more challenging. Sometimes the temperature fell to minus thirty-five degrees and winds reached 100 km an hour. Janek celebrated his sixteenth birthday, 30 December 2004, in terrible conditions about thirteen kilometres from the South Pole. His birthday present was two bars of chocolate ! But Janek finally reached the South Pole the next day and at the same time he broke another world record - the youngest person, and the first disabled person, to reach both the North and South Poles in the same year.


6. During his absence from Poland, Janek had become a hero - and not just to other disabled people. Many young people told Janek that his story had taught them that it was important to give yourself difficult goals in life. 'Sometimes suffering can destroy a person, and sometimes it can make him or her stronger', says Janek's mother. Despite Janek's fame and success he is still a modest schoolboy who worries that he has fallen behind with his schoolwork. But he is certain that he will make another expedition in the future - 'Perhaps Siberia is next', he says. And he isn't joking !

 

 

1. When the accident happened, Janec was:

1. with some school friends.
2. trying to avoid the rain.
3. going home.

2. Janek`s parents contacted Marek Kaminski because they:

1. thought he could be an inspiration to Janek.
2. knew  he had an ambitious.
3. wanted Janek to go to the North Pole.

3. Before the expedition Janek;

1. had to train very well.
2. learnt to swim for the first time.
3. stopped studing.

4. During the expedition to the North;

1. they couldn`t walk very far some days.
2. they travelled at 2 km per hour.
3. they were lucky with the weather.

5. The trip to the South Pole

1. was easier than the trip to the North Pole.
2. began when Janek was fifteen.
3. was not a success.

6. After the expedition Janek

1. had completely changed.
2. was an inspiration to other young people.
3. joked about going on more expeditions.

 

Keys:1. b, 2. a, 3. a, 4. a, 5. b, 6. b.

1.3. After  Reading Activities.

Task3. Match phrasal verbs 1-5 with their definition a-e.

Tell students to find phrasal verbs in the text and to try to work out the definitions from context.

1. cheer somebody up (para.2)
2. catch up with (para.3)
3. take up (para.3)
4. set out (para.4)
5. fall behind with (para.6)

 

1. make less progress than other people.
2. make somebody feel less sad.
3. reach the same level as other people
4. start a journey
5. start a new sport or hobby

 

Keys:1. b, 2. c, 3. e, 4. d, 5, a.

Task4. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the phrasal verbs from Task 3.

1. It was a long way to the next youth hostel so we __________ very early.
2. It was feeling a bit depressed so I ate some chocolate to _________ myself _________.
3. I was ill for three weeks so I ___________ my studies, but I worked hard and soon __________ my classmates.
4. He wanted to lose weight so he decided to _________ jogging.

 

Keys:1. set out, 2. cheer; up, 3. fell behind with; caught up with, 4. take up.

2. Speaking Activity.

Task5. In pairs, check the meaning of the adjectives below. Choose three to describe Janek. Give reasons for your choices.

BRAVE      CONTROVERSIAL     VAIN    MODEST     CONFIDENT     INSPIRING       UNUSUAL        INDEPENDENT   UNUMBITIOUS

Write these adjectives on the board and elicit definitions of each. Students now decide in pairs the three which they think best describe Janek and why they think that. Elicit ideas in open class.

Home  Task  Aid

Prepare for a discussion - which of this things would you find the most challenging? Give reasons.

• go on expedition to an extreme place
• give a speech in front of the crowd
• go to another country to live
• travel abroad alone

Students prepare ideas to share them in open class (they may use Second Conditional structures)

Marks  Motivation