Ход урока.

    I. Организационный момент.

• Good morning, boys and girls! I am glad to see you. Today we shall read, speak as usual. We shall also write a biography. (2 слайд)

II. Фонетическая зарядка. 

T: Open your books, p. 83, Ex.102. Read the names of English speaking writers after me.

III. Речевая зарядка.

         T: Now match the names and the kinds of books they wrote. (Ex.102, p. 83)

• Key:

1. Mark Twain wrote adventure stories.
2. Jack London wrote adventure stories and novels.
3. Charles Dickens wrote novels and stories.
4. Bernard Shaw wrote plays.
5. Lewis Carroll wrote fairy tales.
6. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote adventure stories and novels.
7. William Shakespeare wrote poems and plays.
8. Chase wrote detective stories and novels.
9. Conan Doyle wrote detective stories.
10. Stephen King writes horror stories.
11. Alexander Pushkin wrote poems, stories, plays, novels and fairy tales.
12. Anna Akhmatova wrote poems.
13. Alexandra Marinina writes detective stories.

1. ) Anton Chekhov wrote short stories and novels.
2. Alexander Belyaev wrote science fiction.
3. Arkady Vainer writes detective stories.
4. Vassily Shukshin wrote short stories and novels.
5. Nicolay Gogol wrote novels, stories and plays.)

1. . Актуализация навыков чтения и устной речи.

T: Have you read any biographies?  Which were the most interesting / boring? Why?

(Students’ answers)

T: What kinds of things would you find in a biography? (3 слайд)

(Key: Date and place of birth; childhood, early years; marriage; later years; books; date of death)

Снятие языковых трудностей. (4 слайд)

T: Read this biography about Catherine Ann Cookson, a popular British writer. As you read, put these events into the correct order. (5 слайд)

T: Which of these sentences from the biography describes purpose and which result? (6 слайд)

T: Look at the other words in italic in the biography. Are they describing purpose or result? (7 слайд)

T: Combine these pairs of sentences to form one sentence. (8 слайд)

T: Check your answers. (9 слайд)

T: These nouns and adjectives are all from the text. Fill in the missing words.

(10 слайд)

T: Some words are missing in this text about a writer. Can you fill them in? (11 слайд)

VI. Обучение написанию биографии.

T: Look at the screen. You are going to write a biography of between 200 and 250. Read the biographical notes and decide what information to include. You will not be able to include all the information in 200-250 words. (12слайд)

T: Make the notes you have chosen into sentences to write the biography. (Students’ own ideas)

Try to start each sentence in a different way. Here are some other words you could use. Write them down. (13 слайд)

T: Read the plan of the biography. Write it down. (14 слайд)

    VI. Домашняя работа.

T: Write a biography of between 200 and 250 words about a famous British writer, Charles Dickens. (15 слайд)

    VII. Итоги. Оценки.

T: What have we done today? (Key: We’ve read and answered the questions.)

T: What have we learnt? (Key: How to write a biography).

Приложение 1

    Britain’s most popular story-teller Catherine Ann Cookson lived a life as dramatic as anything she wrote about in her best-selling novels.
    She was born on 27^th 1906 in South Tyneside in a poor family. Catherine later drew on her childhood experiences for her novels.
In the late 1920s, young Catherine was so desperate to escape that she moved south to Sussex in search of respectability and security. She worked in a laundry and saved as much as she could, so that she was finally able to buy a large house.

    When she was 34 years old a schoolteacher Thomas Cookson fell in love with her and soon they married. Their love was so great that it lasted until their deaths. Catherine often suffered from physical illness and, on the advice of her doctor, she took up writing. It was in 1948 that her first novel, “Kate Hannigan”, was published in 1968. During her lifetime, she had more than 90 books published. Her award-winning dramas were so popular that they attracted audiences of over 13 million for each screening of the television adaptations. As her health became worse, the couple settled back in the North­east where she continued to write.
      Catherine Ann Cookson died on 11^th June 1998. Her story of triumph over poverty attracts thousands of fans each year to where she lived. Trained guides accompany tours so that visitors can discover more about the places associated with her life and writing.

Приложение 2

1812       Charles Dickens born / Portsmouth
               Father / clerk / earned relatively little money
1822      Family moved to London / Charles's education
               interrupted by need to take poorly-paid work
               in factory / father got into debt and imprisoned / never  
               forgot this terrible time
1823       Became solicitor's clerk
1824       Became newspaper reporter
1825       First short story published / anonymously
1826       Began writing under pen name “Boz” / described
               conditions of poverty in England
1836       Married Catherine Hogarth / had 10 children
1842       Visited USA / very well-known there
1837-65 Some of finest writing published, e.g. Oliver Twist, A
               Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities.
1858       Dickens and wife separated / began to work very hard /
               eventually became exhausted and ill
1870       Died / buried Westminster Abbey.