Разработка урока "What Is the Index ‘Liborum ‘Prohibitorum?" Конкурс методических разработок по методике В.Ф.Шаталова
методическая разработка по английскому языку (8 класс) по теме

Lead-in 

Stage

Timing

Activity

Procedure

I

1 min.

Organizing the group

Information about the aims of the lesson

Greeting.

-Is anybody absent? Why is she (he) absent?

Today we are going to speak about books again. Why were and are some books banned? What is the Index ‘Liborum ‘Prohibitorum?

 II

2 min.

Warm-up 1

Brainstorming

around the quotation

“A Book that is Worth Burning Is Worth Reading”( World Wisdom)

Anticipated answer: I suppose, if people in power are afraid of some new or different opinion or dangerous ideas, they prefer to destroy books which contain them. They want to destroy the national spirit.

III

1 min.

Warm-up 2

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Phonetic Drilling

IV

2 min.

Warm-up 3

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Why books are worth reading? (choosing from ex.8, p.125)

Anticipated answers: Books contain new ideas. Books can wake people up. Books are the memory of the nation. You can learn a lot from the books. Books give a lot of information. Books are written indifferent languages.

V

4 min.

Grammar Revision

Activating background

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Why books are burned? (ex.7, p.125)

Ss speak about the problem, using The Passive structures.

Anticipated answers: Books are burned to destroy the national spirit. Books are burned because they wake people up. Books are burned because they contain dangerous ideas. Books are burned because they contain new or different ideas.

                                                      Main Activity

VI

 3 min.

Further development of using The Passive Voice. Peculiarities (to be+V3+for)

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p. 126. In The Passive Voice Structures the preposition saves its place after the verb. The most common verbs with prepositions are:

to send for, to object to, to insist on, to refer to, to laugh at, to listen to, to wait for.

e.g.:

Somebody sent for Lena.  Lena was sent for.

VII

7 min.

Feedback

Writing

In the copy-books Ss do ex. 1, p. 127

Anticipated answers:

My little sister was laughed at.

The librarian is being waited for.

This book is often referred to.

The song was being listened to.

The doctor has been sent for.

That book was looked for last week.

VIII

  1 min.

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Dynamic Pause (ex-s  for eyes & hands)

IX

  2 min.  

Pre-Reading

Activity

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Match the name of a famous person and his discovery (открытие):

1. Vasco da Gama         a) the Earth goes round    

                                           the sun

2. Magellan                    b) the sea route to India

3. Columbus                  c) the world is round

4. Copernicus                d) America

X

10 min.

Reading 1 (Silent Reading)

Speaking (Back Report)

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Ss read the text on p.128 “Great Discoveries” and answer the questions on it:

1. When did the Inquisition start? (in 1184)

2. What is it for? (To fight against heretics)

3. What is heresy? (It is an opinion against Ch.)

4. What is the Index Liborum Prohibitorum?

   (A list of books that were banned for Catholics)

5. Who was Nicolas Copernicus? (A young Polish

    astronomer)

6. What was the idea that the Catholic Church

    didn’t like? (The Earth is not the centre of the

   universe. It revolves around the sun.).

Ss work in 3 groups: 2 questions for each group.

                                                                    Ss read the text on p.129 for detail. Say True or 

                                                 False:

     XI          7 min.      Reading 2                                  1. Students burned books because they were too       

                                          Speaking (Back                              difficult and boring. /F

                                        Report)                                    2. Students who burned the books were punished.

                                          ppt                                                      /F

                                                                                             3.  Only one German university burned books./F

                                                                                             4. The Nazis didn’t burn books that were written

                                    by German writers./ F

                                                                                5. Nowadays Germany is a democratic country./T

* If any time left: ex. B, p. 130.

Follow up

XI

1 min.

Summing up

That’s all for today.

Summing up. Putting marks.

XII

1 min.

Reflection

Do you like this lesson? Why? What new have you learned?

XIII

2 min.

Home Task

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Saying good-bye 

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Your home task. Write it down in your day-book:

Ex.C, p. 130 (in written), ex. D, p. 130 (orally).

Thank you for good work. See you later. Take care of yourself.