Методическая разработка урока и презентация урока "The Sandwich Celebrates 250th Birthday" (для 8-10 классов ОУ).
методическая разработка (английский язык, 10 класс) на тему

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Королева Наталья Анатольевна

The Sandwich Celebrates 250th Birthday(13th May, 2012)

Использование материалов статей
сайта Шона Бенвила BreakingNewsEnglish.com
на уроках английского языка, для 9-11 классов.

Шон Бенвил ежедневно добавляет свои новые статьи, посвященные последним событиям в мире,  и предлагает разработки уроков к ним (их уже более 1400). Я его материалами пользуюсь с 2008 г. и очень хочу, чтобы как можно больше коллег узнало об этом замечательном сайте. Можно найти статьи практически на все темы, которые проходим в школе, тем более  что многие из них имеют два уровня сложности: easier | harder. Я делаю презентации к наиболее интересным для моих учеников статьям и, в зависимости от уровня группы,  выбираю соответствующие задания.
Автор предлагает уроки по следующему плану:

1. Event - Текст статьи (он начитан самим Шоном)
2. WARM-UPS
3. BEFORE READING / LISTENING
4. WHILE READING / LISTENING
5. LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gaps
6. AFTER READING / LISTENING
7. STUDENT   SURVEY
8. DISCUSSION  
9.  LANGUAGE – MULTIPLE CHOICE
10. WRITING
11. HOMEWORK

Хочу предложить, в качестве еще одного примера, мою презентацию к статье-уроку The Sandwich Celebrates 250th Birthday. (Текст и все задания взяты с сайта http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

The Sandwich Celebrates 250th Birthday(13th May, 2012) 

The sandwich is 250 years old this weekend and residents in the English town of Sandwich, where the bread meal was first eaten, are celebrating their culinary history. According to the town’s records the English nobleman Earl, John Montague first ordered a sandwich in 1762. It is reported he was playing cards with friends and wanted something he could eat without a knife and fork. He requested slices of beef between two pieces of bread, and so the sandwich was born. Montague chose to live in Sandwich over another port town, Portsmouth. Had he chosen the latter, we would be eating portsmouths today. It is perhaps a coincidence Sandwich is just a few kilometres from the town of Ham.

The 11th Earl of Sandwich, also named John Montagu, hosted a celebratory lunch in honour of his ancestor and his contribution to the global fast food industry. He told reporters: “My ancestor…could never have imagined that his simple invention would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry, employing hundreds of thousands of people." He added: "My favourite sandwich is a traditional one - roast beef and hot horseradish on freshly baked bread.” Organisers of the celebrations are equally excited about the historic event. Mandy Wilkins said: “The sandwich is a global food and Sandwich, our town, is just a little town full of medieval buildings. It's bizarre that such an important food item should be named after us.”

WARM-UPS

1. SANDWICHES: Walk around the class and talk to other students about sandwiches. Change partners often. Sit with your first partner(s) and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. CULINARY HISTORY: Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you wrote. Change and share again.

4. QUALITY: Students A strongly believe the sandwich is a quality food; Students B strongly believe it isn’t.  Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

5. FAST FOOD: What’s the best? Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the best at the top. Change partners and share your rankings again.

6. BREAD: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word ‘bread’. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

BEFORE READING / LISTENING

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F).

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

3. PHRASE MATCH:  (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

WHILE READING / LISTENING
GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.

LISTENING – Listen and fill in the gaps

The sandwich is 250 years old this weekend _____________________ English town of Sandwich, where the bread meal was first eaten, are celebrating _____________________. According to the town’s records the English nobleman Earl, John Montague first ordered a sandwich in 1762. It is _____________________ cards with friends and wanted something he could eat without a knife and fork. He _____________________ beef between two pieces of bread, and so the sandwich was born. Montague chose to live in Sandwich over _____________________, Portsmouth. Had he chosen the latter, we would be eating portsmouths today. It is _____________________ Sandwich is just a few kilometres from the town of Ham.

The 11th Earl of Sandwich, also named John Montagu, _____________________ lunch in honour of his ancestor and his contribution to the global fast food industry. He told reporters: “My ancestor…could _____________________ that his simple invention would spawn a multi-billion dollar industry, employing hundreds of thousands of people." He added: "My favourite sandwich _____________________ - roast beef and hot horseradish on _____________________.” Organisers of the celebrations are _____________________ the historic event. Mandy Wilkins said: “The sandwich is a global food and Sandwich, our town, is just a little town full of medieval buildings. It's _____________________ an important food item should be named after us.”

AFTER READING / LISTENING

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words ‘bread’ and ‘meal’.

1. Share your findings with your partners.

1. Make questions using the words you found.
2. Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

1. Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
2. Ask your partner / group your questions.

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?
4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.
5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

SANDWICHES SURVEY

Write five GOOD questions about sandwiches in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper.
When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

1. Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Change partners often.

1. Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

SANDWICHES DISCUSSION

SANDWICHES DISCUSSION

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

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STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

LANGUAGE – MULTIPLE CHOICE

The sandwich is 250 years old this weekend and (1) ____ in the English town of Sandwich, where the bread meal was first eaten, are celebrating their (2) ____ history. According to the town’s (3) ____ the English nobleman Earl, John Montague first ordered a sandwich in 1762. It is reported he was playing cards with friends and wanted something he could eat without a knife and fork. He (4) ____ slices of beef between two pieces of bread, and so the sandwich was born. Montague chose to live in Sandwich (5) ____ another port town, Portsmouth. Had he chosen the (6) ____, we would be eating portsmouths today. It is perhaps a coincidence Sandwich is just a few kilometres from the town of Ham.

The 11th Earl of Sandwich, also named John Montagu, (7) ____ a celebratory lunch in honour of his ancestor and his contribution to the global fast food industry. He told reporters: “My ancestor…could never have imagined that his simple invention would (8) ____ a multi-billion dollar industry, employing hundreds of thousands of people." He added: "My favourite sandwich is a traditional one - roast beef and hot horseradish on (9) ____ baked bread.” Organisers of the celebrations are (10) ____ excited about the historic event. Mandy Wilkins said: “The sandwich is a global food and Sandwich, our town, is just a little town full of medieval buildings. It's         (11) ____ that such an important food item should be named (12) ____ us.”
Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

WRITING

Write about sandwiches for 10 minutes. Correct your partner’s paper.
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HOMEWORK

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about sandwiches. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.

3. SANDWICHES: Make a poster about sandwiches. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things? 

4. BIRTHDAY: Write a magazine article about the 250th birthday of the sandwich. Include imaginary interviews with someone who loves sandwiches and someone who doesn’t.

Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).

5. LETTER: Write a letter to a sandwich expert. Ask him/her three questions about sandwiches. Give him/her three of your opinions on them. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

ANSWERS

TRUE / FALSE:

SYNONYM MATCH:

PHRASE MATCH:

GAP FILL:

The sandwich is 250 years old this weekend and (1) residents in the English town of Sandwich, where the bread meal was first eaten, are celebrating their (2) culinary history. According to the town’s records the English nobleman Earl, John Montague (3) first ordered a sandwich in 1762. It is reported he was playing cards with friends and wanted something he could eat without a knife and fork. He (4) requested slices of beef between two (5) pieces of bread, and so the sandwich was born. Montague chose to live in Sandwich over another (6) port town, Portsmouth. Had he chosen the (7) latter, we would be eating portsmouths today. It is perhaps a (8) coincidence Sandwich is just a few kilometres from the town of Ham.

The 11th Earl of Sandwich, also (9) named John Montagu, hosted a celebratory lunch in honour of his ancestor and his (10) contribution to the global fast food industry. He told reporters: “My ancestor…could never have (11) imagined that his simple invention would spawn a (12) multi-billion dollar industry, employing hundreds of thousands of people." He added: "My favourite sandwich is a traditional one - roast beef and hot horseradish on (13) freshly baked bread.” Organisers of the celebrations are (14) equally excited about the historic event. Mandy Wilkins said: “The sandwich is a global food and Sandwich, our town, is just a little town full of medieval buildings. It's (15) bizarre that such an important food item should be named (16) after us.”
LANGUAGE WORK