Урок у 10 класі "Natural Disasters"

Тема: Planet Earth. 10-th form.

Підтема: Natural Disasters.

Мета:

Практична: активізувати знання учнів лексичних одиниць з теми, тренувати

в утворенні речень граматичної конструкції Second Conditional.

Розвивальна: розвивати мовленнєві навички; удосконалювати навички

читання; розвивати навички аудіювання; розвивати мислення та увагу учнів.

Виховна: Виховувати інтерес до природних явищ, повагу при спілкуванні.

Виховувати готовність правильно поводити себе в екстремальних умовах.

Освітня: розширювати кругозір учнів, стимулювати і підтримувати інтерес

до іноземної мови.

Lesson procedure

1. Introduction

1. Subject introduction

1. Greeting

Good morning, everybody! I’m very glad to see you in good mood at today’s lesson. Take your seats, please and let’s start our lesson during which we’ll be discussing one of the most burning questions in our life “Is our planet in danger”?

2. Warming-up

But before talking about natural problems I want you to look on the blackboard and admire the pictures of beauty and kindness of nature. In all times people sang glory of nature with the help of pictures, photos, music and songs.

(The work with the song:

 The students are given strips of paper on which lines of Louis Armstrong’s song “What a beautiful world” are typed. The students must make up the song correctly and then check themselves while listening to the song.)

Please, tell me, which adjectives can help us describe the beauty and calmness of nature (students give their variants and the teacher widens this list of the adjectives)

2. Main stage

At the previous lesson we spoke about natural disasters. Look at the pictures. What natural disasters can you see on them? Think of the adjectives describing the cruelty of nature.

(somebody is called to the blackboard and signs the pictures describing the natural disasters: flood, famine, tornado, tsunami, drought, earthquake, volcano eruption, forest fire

Please, tell me, which adjectives can help us describe the cruelty of nature (students give their variants and the teacher widens this list of the adjectives)

And now I want you to think of synonyms to some of the names of natural disasters and write them down.

Famine, hunger, starvation

Drought, dry, drouth

Flood, deluge, inundation, floodwaters, overflow

Earthquake, seism, temblor

Eruption, eructation

Disaster, hazard, peril, menace, threat, danger

Catastrophe, accident, collapse, smash

Your home task for today was to prepare reports about Natural Disasters. So be very attentive because after the presentation you will be asked some questions about the facts mentioned in the reports of the students.

Listening + discussing

At the end of the lesson the students are offered to listen to M. Jackson’s  “Earth song” and make a conclusion: “Are people responsible for what is happening to our planet now?”

If we saw (became a witness of) some examples of natural disasters we would die of fear. (Second Conditional)

Hometask: Ex. 5, p.144