Проблемы окружающей среды. 7 класс
методическая разработка по английскому языку (7 класс) по теме

Points

Teacher (учитель)

Students (ученики)

Equipments

Introduction

-Good morning, students!

-Today we'll have unusual lesson. We'll begin our lesson watching the clip. Your task is to answer the question – What is the clip about?

-What kind of problems have you seen?

-Good morning

- about the ecological and environmental problems.

- Air pollution

- water pollution

- trees are cut down

- a lot of litter

Multimedia

Clip “The Lord of nothing’

in Russian

 -OK, as you've guessed, the theme of our lesson is The environmental problems.

But you named only some of them. Look at the screen and let's read the names of other problems. 

- overfishing

- acid rain

- nuclear arms

-holes in the ozone layer

-deforestation

On the screen – the Earth and names of ecological problems.

Matching

-Look at the pictures on the screen. Match the captions for each picture.

Students match the picture and a right caption.

On the screen – pictures and texts

Listening

- Now, listen to some students who are talking about environmental problems and put the cards with names of them in the right order.

Students listening to the discussion of environmental problems try to put the stripes with captions in the right order.  

Cassette with the text

Stripes  with the captions

Reading and grammar

-Let’s read the text and answer the questions.

- Will you start, P1

-What problem is this part about?

-How do people do it?

-Can you transform the marked sentence into passive voice?

-P2, go on.

-What problem is this part about?

-What will happen if we don’t stop to pollute the water?

-Can you transform the marked sentence into passive voice?

-P3 Can you continue?

- What problem is this part about?

-Why do people cut the trees down?

-Can you transform the marked sentence into passive voice?

-P4, will you continue?

- What problem is this part about?

-Can you translate this passage?

Students read the text and answer the questions.

P1 is reading the first passage of the text

-air pollution

-driving cars, heating houses

-The air is polluted by poisonous gases.

-P2 is reading the second passage.

-about water pollution

-the rivers will be empty of fish.

-the rivers are polluted by chemical wastes.

P3 is reading the next passage.

-deforestation

-because they need wood, paper and new places for farms, roads and houses.

-the trees are cut down.

P4 is reading the next passage.

-global warming

P4 is translating the passage.

The text

Reading and Grammar

-P5, will you continue reading?

- What problem is this part about?

-Can you translate the marked sentence?

-Can you transform it in passive voice?

-P6, will you read last passage of the text?

-What problem is described in this passage?

- Using the grammar rule of the fist condition try to answer the question which is in the end of the text: What will happen if we don’t try to solve these problems?

P5 is reading the next passage.

-Two problems: we use too much energy and too much plastic.

P5 is translating

-the animals are harmed by plastic rubbish.

-P6 is reading the text.

-littering and pollution of ourselves.

- If we don’t stop polluting the air, the air won’t be clean or fresh.

- If we don’t stop polluting the water, we won’t have fresh water to drink.

- If we don’t stop deforestation, the animals will die. …

Vocabulary matching

-Let’s work in pairs. Take the card with words. Using the text match synonyms.

-Let’s check!

-Well done/ you are mistaken

Students are doing this work.

People –human beings

Litter – rubbish

Make – create …

Cards with words.

Speaking

Divide into groups. Your task is to give comments to the film using the text. Let’s see.

Students of the1st group sound the film.

Students of the 2d group sound the film.

You have done this work well.

But I think the comments of the_____ group were more interesting and they speak more confidently.

Working in groups, students are trying to match comments to the film using the text.

-It’s a wonderful world we live in.

- - But now we are killing our planet.

-We pollute the air by poisonous gases.

-The trees are cut down.

-We pollute our rivers with chemical wastes.

-We must solve these problems.

Video

Thank you for your work and I hope you’ll help to solve these problems in future. Your marks: …

The lesson is over.

 Good buy.