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The World Around Us: Nature and Art

Level: intermediate

Objectives:

-        to widen pupils' knowledge on the topic;

-        to cultivate pupils' linguistic skills and habits;

-        to help pupils develop their vocabulary by its active use;

-        to develop pupils' habits of dialogue and discussion

-        to inspire pupils' interest in learning English to create a desire for communication

Equipment: 1. paintings (portraits, landscapes of different styles);

2. videofilm "The purple Violin";
3. tables: "British Museum", "Old Masters of Painting";
4. cards with lexics and discussion topics.

Procedure:

I. Introductory part:    1. greeting

   2. explaining the aim of the lesson

II. Main part of the lesson:

1.Brainstorm: T.

    What does the world "world" mean to you? (pupils' expected answers: nature, people, cities, etc.)

-        Do you suppose you know well the world around you?

2. Pupils' monologues about walks to the forest, sea cruises, montain climbings using pictures of the sea, forest, hills.
3. Dialogues P1 P2 P3

   -   What are your impressions of wood walk?

- Do you feel better after it?

Were you impressed by bird singing?

-        Would you prefe to go for a walk in sunny or rainy weather?

-        Will you go for a walk alone or with your friends?

-        Have you ever watched animals or insects in the forest?

-   Is it pleasant for you to look at the stormy sea?

-        Why do people keep fish at home?

-        What do you feel while swimming in the sea?

-        Are you afraid of penetrating into the deep oceam?

-        Do you get pleased when climbing the high mountains?

4.               (Tragic music sounds) T.    "Do you feel danger? What'is it?"

P1: Nature disaster.

P2: Ecological danger, and so on.

       Pupils read and translate the text "Human legacy of Chernobyl"

5.  Role - play (a pupil dressed in white clothes of a doctor performs the part of a doctor and asks children questions about the sequences of Chernobyl). Questions are given after the text (text 1 is added).
6.  T: We are talking about real world around us. What words can we describe it? (Answers can be: wonderful, beautiful, perfect, endless, shining, fantastic.) But there is another world around us, and it is also beautiful and charming. But this world is unreal, reflective, somehow imaginary. H is the world of art. li describes the real in different ways. All these ways are kinds of art: literature, music, theatre, painting, architecture, etc.)
7. Situation: a guide tells about painting in our life.
8. Work in small groups (discussion on the role of painting)

9. Working with the vocabulary: find the proper definition, (exercise 2 is added).

10. Introduction of new lexical material: T. exeplains expressions on the table in English.

- to capture the sitter's vitality

-  special insight into the psychology

-  penetrating studies of a characl er

-  to portray with moving sincerity

-  poetic in tone and atmosphere

  -  range of colours, colours, coloured patches

-  supreme mastery of technique

- sharp psychological expressiveness

-  to produce impression

-  to retain freshness

- soft, delicate colours

-  airness and lightness

-  pure, vivid, brilliant, fresh

-  romantic, emotional, life - like

-  to convey, to radiate, to evoke

-  to have a keen, eye for beauty

11.Pupils describe pictures using these expressions.

12.Ear - Comprehension (WATCH the vidio and tick the correct variant). Pupils do the task on card 1, then card 2 (added)

13. Discussion in small groups on problems:

- The language of art is universal.

- Would you like in the real world without art?

- There is a great number of pictures on the walls of our shool building. What's the purpose of it?

III. Summing up.

Home assignment: write a composition "My favourite picture".

P.S. While working on the topic "The World Around

Us: Nature and Art" you can add some more exercises.

1. Role - play "The Quarrel": two pupils imitate the quarrel, then ask pupils if it was a game or reality, other pupils try to guess.

T.: There is one more kind of art which also reflects the real world. Some people don't it. Some others are fond of it. I think this kind of art reflects reality best of all. Can you guess what I'm speaking about? Yes, it's a theatre. What do you think of it? (Possible answers: - Theatre plays an important role in our life).

-         We don't need theatre in our modern 1 ife.

-         It attracts a 1 ot of people.

-         It's a place for relaxation.

2. Reading the text "Theatre" and working on its Lexics.

3. Role-play "The Quction" where some paintings or some other kinds of art are sold. Their features
and peculiarities are described and appreciated.