Let’s start the lesson with associations. On the blackboard you can see the word SPORT .Your associations, please. (Pupils name people, places, equipment, etc.). Can you guess what we are going to talk about today? Right, about sport. By the end of the lesson you will have learned about:
- famous British sporting events,
- the time and place of these events,
- the number of participants,
- what else people can do exept doing and watching sports,
- celebrities' attitude to these events.
Создание проблемной ситуации:
Nick is going to tell you about the British and their attitude to sport. (Suggested answer: The British are a sport-loving nation. Both young and old people are sportsmen. Many sports and games were born in Britain: football, cricket, soccer, rugby, tennis, squash, badminton, canoeing and snooker were invented in Britain. Boxing , golf, hockey, yachting, horse- racing also originated from Britain, etc.)
Самостоятельное открытие знаний:
You see that the British like sport and competitions. From ex.1, page 39 you will learn about world famous competitions. Listen and follow in your books. While listening underline unusual facts which impressed you a lot. Answer the questions of ex. 2, page 39.
Now tell me what these figures stand for:
18 competitors must be students at Oxford or Cambridge University
42 km – Marathon distance
40,000 people take part in the Marathon
300,000 people buy tickets to watch the races
28,000 kilos of strawberries and
7,000 liters of ice cream are sold.
T. Now a minute of relaxation. Let’s organize our own competition. On the blackboard you can see a tongue twister. Who will read it better than the others?
Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
Применениеновыхзнаний:
I want you to fill in the tables in your exercise-books. Let us see what you knew before reading the text, what you have learned and what else you would like to know.
I knew
I have learned
I want to know
T. Max has got some extra information about famous British sport events. He’ll show you a computer presentation. Maybe it will help you learn something new about Britain.
T. Now you know a lot about sport events in Britain. Read the sentences and change the words using suffixes and prefixes.
Britain does not often produce sportsmen who are successful in world (CHAMPION), but it has been good at inventing sports. In towns and cities space for team sport is (LIMIT). To keep fit, most people take part in individual sports. They (USUAL) go walking, swimming or cycling. Taking part in all these sports is (FORMAL) and relaxing. Although many British people want to be (HEALTH), not many people do very much about it. A recent study proved that many people were not as active as they thought and (CORRECT) believed that they did enough exercise to keep fit.
Рефлексия:
Now look at the blackboard. At the beginning of the lesson I wrote some aims for us to achieve. Let us see what we have learned today. Answer my questions.
1. What famous British sporting events do you know?
2. When and where are they held?
3. How many people take part in them?
4. What else do people do except watching events?
5. Do celebrities participate in these events?
(Pupils answer the questions)
Домашнеезадание(творческое):
Our lesson is over. Thanks for being active at the lesson. Your marks are… Your homework is creative. Make a computer presentation about great Russian sporting events.
