Сетевой журнал "Интернет и образование"

Seasons and Weather. Английский язык

Разработка урока

Цели урока:

• Тренировка произносительных навыков.
• Тренировка чтения слов в транскрипции.
• Активизация лексических навыков.
• Активизация грамматических навыков.
• Развитие умений и навыков чтения с общим охватом содержания.
• Совершенствование речевых навыков (полилог).

I. Introduction.
Hello, my dear friends! How are you? What wonderful weather we are having today! And our topic today is also wonderful! Today we are going to talk about the seasons and weather!

II. Phonetic exercises.
What date is it today?
What day is it today?
What month is it now?
What season is it now?
Thank you! Write down, the date into your copy-books, please.
Attention, listen to me, please! Let’s read the poem about weather.

Weather
When the weather is wet
We must not fret.
When the weather is cold,
We must not scold.
When the weather is warm,
We must not storm,
But be joyful together
Whatever the weather!

III. Lexical activities.
1. On the blackboard you can see some words on the topic "Seasons and Weather". Make up as many sentences as you can.
2. Which of this words might be used to describe the place where you live? (Pupils read the words after the teacher and then translate them).

VOCABULARY

Now we will read the text and translate it “The seasons and weather”.

TEXT
THE SEASONS AND WEATHER
There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Every season is beautiful in its own way.

When spring comes nature awakens from its long winter sleep. The days become longer and the nights become shorter. The ground is covered with emerald-green grass and the first flowers. The air is fresh, the sky is blue and cloudless, and the sun shines brightly. The trees are in full blossom. The nightingale begins to sing its lovely songs, and sweet melodies may be heard from every wood and park. The days are warm and everything is full of life and joy.

Spring is followed by summer. The weather is usually fine in summer, but it can be very hot, especially in July. Sometimes there are storms with thunder and lightning. In summer people try to get away from the city noise and spend more time in the open air. They pick mushrooms and berries in the forest, swim in the rivers and lakes, go fishing and boating. Most people prefer to have their holidays in summer.

Autumn begins in September. The days become shorter and the nights become longer. The leaves turn yellow, red and brown and fall to the ground. Most birds fly away to warm countries. There is a short spell of dry sunny weather in September, which is called ‘Indian Summer’. It is a beautiful time when the sky is cloudless, the trees around are golden, the air is transparent and it is still warm. But gradually it gets colder and colder. It often rains in October and November which makes autumn an unpleasant season.

In winter the sun sets early and rise late. The rivers and lakes are frozen over. Everything is covered with snow. Sometimes it is very cold, about 25-30 °C below zero. Going out in such weather isn’t pleasant. Winter is a good time for sports. People go in for skating and skiing. Tobogganing is also popular, not as a kind of sports, but rather as a fun.

As for me, I like all the season, but I think there is nothing like late spring.

Task 1. Answer my questions.

QUESTIONS
1. How many seasons are there in a year?
2. When does nature awaken from her long winter sleep?
3. Why do we like spring so much?
4. Why do people try to spend more time in the open air in summer?
5. Is summer the best season for tourism?
6. Where did you go last summer?
7. Do you like ‘Indian Summer’? Why?
8. Do you like late autumn?
9. What do you usually do on a nasty rainy day?
10. What is the weather like in winter?
11. Do you go in for skating or skiing?
12. Were you fond of playing snowballs and making snowmen when you were a child?
13. Most people prefer summer to any other seasons of the year. What about you?
14. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each season?

Task 2. Tell the class your ideas. Use these words and expressions. Match the columns.

Task 3. Listen to me and correct. If the sentence is not true, make it true.
Ex.: We always/ usually/ sometimes/ never have … in… .

1. We always have snow in June.
2. We sometimes have rain in July and August.
3. We sometimes have warm weather in December.
4. It is warm in March.
5. It is always frosty in January.
6. We never have windy weather in February.
7. It is cold in June.

IV. Grammar activities.

VOCABULARY

Fill in the gaps.

Weather conditions.
Look at this list of common weather words. Notice that it is very common to form adjectives by adding ‘-y’.

Note: When it rains for a short period of time, we call it a shower, e.g. We had several showers yesterday afternoon.
When it is raining a lot we often say it’s pouring or it’s pouring with rain. This phrase is much more common than “it’s raining cats and dogs”, which many students seem to learn.

Temperature.

People round the world have different ideas about temperature:
5 °C (five degrees centigrade) is freezing for many Brazilians.
–10 °C (minus ten degrees or ten degrees below zero) is very cold but quite normal in the mountains in Switzerland during the winter when it usually snows a lot.
30-35 °C is boiling for England and very unusual, but it is very common in parts of Spain during the summer.

Wind
The first word here is very gentle: the last is more than 100 km per hour and can be very dangerous.

It was a hot day but there was a lovely breeze.
The wind blew my hat off.
The hurricane in Florida destroyed trees and buildings.

Thunderstorms.
A spell (=period) of very hot weather often ends with a thunderstorm. First it become very humid (=hot and wet), then you get thunder and lightning, and finally, very heavy rain (=it pours with rain). Afterwards, it is usually cooler and it feels fresher.

Match each word on the left with a word on the right.
For example: thunderstorm.

V. Speaking.
What can you tell about the seasons and weather in our country.

VI. The conclusion of the lesson.
Our lesson is over. Thank you for your wonderful work!
1. You know the new words (вы узнали новые слова).
2. You can ask questions (вы можете задавать вопросы).
3. You can speak on this topic (вы можете рассказывать текст).
Good bye!