Разработка урока английского языка "Животные в нашей жизни"
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (7 класс) на тему

Урок английского языка в 7 классе на тему

«Животные в нашей жизни»

Цель урока: формирование самостоятельной познавательной деятельности учащихся

Задачи урока:

1. Учебные: Формировать лексические навыки, совершенствовать навыки аудирования, устной монологической и диалогической речи
2. Развивающие: развивать интерактивные и исследовательские навыки, развивать умение работать в группе
3. Воспитательные: формировать уважительное и ответственное отношение к природе.

Оснащение урока:

Наглядный материал: интерактивная доска, видеосюжеты об исчезающих животных, постер, аудиозапись голосов животных, фотоколлаж.
Раздаточный материал: тексты о животных и информационные карты, текст о пингвинах, карточки с названиями частей тела.

Тип урока: закрепление знаний по теме

Procedure of the lesson:

I. Preliminaries. Aims.

Good morning, pupils and our highly respected guests. The theme of our lesson is «Animals in our life». We live in a world that is full of the beauty of nature. Animals are the part of that natural world. People often treated animals more like things than living, feeling beings. We'll learn that animals are more complex, we'll learn some interesting facts about animals. You'll present your projects. And by the end of the lesson you will be able to

• get main ideas and details of necessary information
• to exchange ideas and compare animals.

II. Brainstorming.

Look at this poster. What animals can you see? How do you understand these words «Everyone matters»?

III. Recollection of lexis.

To make our lesson successful let's revise lexis on the theme. Let's play animals' category game. Look at the active board.

What categories of animals do you know?
What species of animals do you know?

Come up to the active board and write in the words.

a) Complete the diagram with species of animals.
b) You know that animals have different parts of body. Let us see if you know them. Stick the label with the name to the suitable part of the animal's body;
c) You know animals differ in their habitats and characteristics. Divide the words into three groups: habitats, characteristics and words to mean actions: jungle, wild, forest, protect, ocean, rare, hunt, river, extinct, fast, save, b, desert, endangered.

Very good! I see you know the words well.

IV. Listening (active board is used).

Do you understand English well? Listen to the computer test (EuroTalk interactive World Talk English) and try to choose the animal due its characteristics. You are good at listening, children.

V. Reading practice. Making up dialogues.

Let's speak about this wonderful animal. What animal is it? Where does it live? Read the text about penguins and make up your dialogues.

Let us listen to your dialogues. What interesting facts about penguins have you leant from the text?

VI. Mini-research work.

Now you will have a mini-research work. Each group has a text about an animal and an info chart.

a) Read the text and find out what animal is described and fill in the required information into the charts.
b) Report your research findings to the other groups.
c) While listening try to complete the chart with necessary information.
d) Look attentively and compare animals. What do they have in common? In what ways are they alike?

VII. Relaxation.

Children, you have worked much. Let's have a rest. Imagine that you are in the jungle. Listen to the animals voices and enjoy yourselves.

VIII. Presentation of projects.

1) «The most popular pets» (the first group)

Reports

P1: We want to tell you about our young brothers, I mean pets. The first pet was grey goose. It happened 10000 years ago. Do you know that Americans have more cats as pets than any other animal? Americans have more than 77 million pet cats. They have about 65 million pet dogs. Cat lovers think cats are graceful and fun to watch. Some cats are comical and playful and some are serious and independent.

P2: Lots of animals have jobs:

• the police use horses to control large crowds;
• dogs help blind people;
• cats are used in advertisements;
• etc.

P3: Martin Old from Manchester has a very strange pet. He has a two-year- old South American red-kneed tarantula called Tammy.

Crossword (active board is used).

2) «The most interesting facts about wild animals» (the second group)

3) «Endangered animals of Kazakhstan» (the third group)

Many animals and birds in Kazakhstan are in danger, because people have hunted and killed many animals, destroyed their habitats. There are about 835 species of animals in Kazakhstan.

40 out of 178 mammals are included into the Red Book, etc. Video episodes about endangered animals are demonstrated.

IX. Creative activity.

a) Think about some ideas for «A Fairer World for Animals». Work in groups.
b) Write them on the active board.

X. Reflection

So, our lesson is almost over. You've learnt so much about animals. Tell me please what facts about animals were the most interesting for you? What activity did you like best of all? You worked very hard. I am going to put you «fives» and «fours». Thank you for the lesson.

Supplements

№ 1 Poster

№ 2

№ 3

• Read the text and find out what animal is described.
• Fill in the appropriate boxes on the chart.
• Take turns, reporting your «research findings» to the class.

№ 4

№ 5

№ 6 Endangered animals of Kazakhstan