Ecological project
методическая разработка по английскому языку (11 класс) на тему

Разработка урока по экологии

в 11 классе

Тема:    «Природа и экология». 

Как я могу помочь в защите

окружающей среды.

Учитель: Величко Т.С.

Ст. Марьянская 2010

Тема: «Природа и экология». Как я могу помочь в защите окружающей среды.

Цель: Активизация речевой и мыслительной деятельности учащихся.

Задачи:1. Ознакомить учащихся с проблемами экологии во всем мире

              2. Совершенствовать у учащихся навыки устной речи, аудирования,

                  чтения, развивать умение свободного владения английским языком

                  в обсуждении экологических проблем.

              3. Воспитать чувство ответственности за чистоту окружающей

                  среды, любовь к природе.

                  Привить интерес к изучению иностранного языка.

Оборудование: Карта мира, таблички с названиями стран,  мультимедийный проектор, компьютер. 

Ход урока

Музыкальный фон. На экране – виды природы (слайд 1)

Teacher: Today we’ll have our conclusion lesson on the topic “Ecology”.

We will discuss many important problems connected with our topic. With the help of the film you will exchange your opinions about these global problems, how to protect our Earth, how to prevent further pollution of the atmosphere and what urgent and necessary measures to undertake (слайд 2).

As this problem is global, I want to discuss it. Please, be active in the discussion. Who wants to be the first?

Pupil 1: I do. The problem impressed me greatly. I am upset because just now we have seen many polluted parts of our country. Now we know that buses and cars are the sources of pollution. We know that noise is a special kind of environmental pollution.

Teacher:  How do you think, why environmental problems have become exceptionally acute in Russia? Who would like to discuss it?

Pupil 2: For a long time too little attention was paid to the environment. Today the situation is quite different. People all over the world are worried what is happening to the environment because of modern industry and the need for more energy. Newspapers and magazines write about water, air and land pollution. Global warming threatens to wreck the planet. Animal and plant species are being wiped out. These problems become very pressing, the subject of many scientific meetings. Let everybody remember: we live only once and not a very long life. We have one earth for all those who love it and who do not. (слайд 3).

Teacher: Many territories, water basins, lakes, rivers, seas, oceans and the atmosphere are polluted with all kinds of technological, agricultural, chemical, nuclear and other wastes. The intensive development of sciences, industry and chemistry in the 20th century has made the pollution of our environment a global problem which should be solved by all means. (слайд 4)

Pupil 3: I would like to add something. The ecology situation has become very strained. In towns and cities there are many sources of environmental pollution. Because of economic difficulties the Ministry stinted on measures to protect the environment from industrial pollution, as a result half of water sources are polluted with communal and industrial waste.

Teacher: What other problem would you like to be discussed?

Pupil 3:  People of the whole world must take urgent measures to protect the environment from further pollution of the land, water, air. The Earth is our Home. We must take care of it. The importance of this task is pointed out by the ecologists, scientists who study the relations between living things and their environment. Each of us must do everything possible to keep the land, air and water clean (слайд 5).

Teacher: So, I want you to visit an imaginary Global Forum, organized by the journalists of different newspapers from different countries. Let’s ask them to tell us about the situation in their countries and what they do to protect the nature.

(Представители разных стран рассказывают об экологической ситуации в их регионах).

Russia (Россия). The ecological situation in our country is different and dangerous. Aral and Chernobyl, the Baikal, the Black Sea and many other parts of our country are in ecological danger.

     In 103 towns with population of about 50 million people the per cent of bad substances in the air and in water is increased. It is dangerously to eat some kinds of food because of water, air and land pollution. Our Forum is taken place in Krasnodar region.

USA (США). In our country a lot of forests disappeared. It is necessary to plant new forests. It is necessary to keep balance all over the world. Our towns become bigger and at the same time our nature goes to ruin.

New-York is a big city, not far from it there is a nature reserve. They wanted to build there big shops. But there were many people who took part in the meeting. They carried coffins with trees in them.

Greenpeace is an organization in the USA. Their programme is a programme of defending the trees.

Teacher: What questions do you want to ask to the representatives of Russia and the USA?

(Задают вопросы представителям США и России. Детям дано задание заранее продумать вопросы.)

Могут быть такие:

-Air pollution is a great problem.  How do the members of Greenpeace fight for realization of their programme?

Answer: Well, there is a problem of air pollution in many cities such as in Los Angeles. But the members of Greenpeace have planted more then 1000 trees and now they continue to plant different trees. It is their practical work.

-Do other people understand that it is important and necessary to plant more and more new trees?

Answer: Yes, of course, such as in Houston some trees were planted by the group of volunteers.

India: Deforestation is a destruction of forests. Children of India try to know what the word «tree» means. For women trees are firewood, for children – a place where they may play, for traveler it’s a place where he can have a good rest, for every man – it is oxygen, breathing of life (слайд 6).

People of all continents can see sunrise and sunset. So we must understand: we all live in common house. It is our planet.

Great Britain (Великобритания). I’m a representative of the UK. People’s activity soils our environment. It is physical and chemical soil. We can’t solve this problem without fighting together. Many children in big cities have never heard  birds’ singing; they have never seen stars in the sky. In the world of forests perish every year on the territory equal to Great Britain. All our life depends on forests.

There are more then 300 nature centers in Great Britain’s cities and more than 30 are in London. Children visit these centers with their teachers. They study and enjoy nature.

Вопрос: I heard that many people in your country get to work by public transport. Is it right?  

 Ответ: Yes it’s so. A lot of people use public transport. They don’t go by car, because firstly, cars pollute the atmosphere and secondly, because it's very difficult and expensive to park a car in a big city.

           China (Китай). We know that the hole in azonic cover is increased. It is because of combustion of gas.

           It is necessary to use alternative sources of energy. In China people use sun energy. In villages near Peking people built houses with sun heating. It prevents our environment from soil. The temperature in houses is higher than outside. Outside the houses are covered with dark colour which swallows up sun energy. Villagers say that it’s always clean and neatly there.

Chad (Чад). In our state sun energy is used also but for communication. People don’t try to use machines for growing plants. But they have no many sources for it.

Australia (Sydney). People must not be passive observers. They must try to do future life better. In Sydney water pollution is a great problem. This problem was discussed in OON. The people of Sydney support the idea of ban of cabining of some kind of fish. Sydney gives new ecologically clean model of the development of life. The nation of Kippy, the aboriginal inhabitants of Australia live far from civilization of Australia. Modern technology can solve their problems but local people refuse to use it, they use only radio.

Teacher: In 1980 the leader of one of Indian tribes had a speech at the Forum in Oxford. “Flowers are our sisters, dears are our brothers. What has happened with animals will have happened with people” (слайд 7).

Japan: Water pollution seems to be one of the problems. We know that it’s a great problem of all over the world. A hundred years ago you could catch eatable fish in rivers like the Thames and the Clyde (Great Britain). Now factories and homes put waste materials which are poisons into these rivers. Large cities on the Great lakes of the North America let different wastes flow into the water. These wastes brought down by the rivers are speeding up the process by which a lake becomes useless for shipping.

Russia: The same you can see in Russian waters such as the Volga, the Aral, the Cuban, the Baikal and others. Rivers flow into seas and oceans. So waters, surrounded our country, and are polluted. Nothing can live or grow in such polluted waters (слайд 8, 9).

The representatives of many countries called upon all the mankind to save our planet, to liberate people from the slavery of machines. The message of Moscow Forum was the message of hope. It was an unusual meeting of famous people.

Teacher: We know that in our days many parts of the land are crowded, people live in big cities and much of our waste especially waste from factories, and electric power stations, chemical industry and heavy industry are very dangerous. Fish dies in lakes, rivers and seas, forest trees die too. Much of these dangerous wastes go into the air and are carried by winds for great distances.

            The Earth is our home. We must take care of it. How can we keep our environment clean?

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Teacher: What can we do to keep our environment clean?

           1. Don’t buy drinks in plastic bottles. These bottles can’t be recycled and plastic won’t even degrade if you throw this bottle, it will litter the Earth forever. Only buy water and other drinks in aluminum cans or glass bottles. Buy milk and juice in cartoons. Glass, aluminum and cartoon can be recycled.

           2. The energy saved from one recycled aluminum can will operate a television set for three hours. If you throw an aluminum can out of the train window, it will still litter the Earth up to 500 years later. If you throw the glass bottle you litter the Earth forever.

           3. Save water. If there is the leaky toilet or tap in your house, get someone of the day, when the sun is not, most of water evaporates before it gets to roots. It is better to water the garden in the coolest part of the day. The best time to water is early in the morning before the sun gets hot.

           4. The electric power stations burn coal to produce the energy off gasses that – acid rain. So, save the room. Turn off the TV or the stereo when you are not watching or listening. (слайд 10)

           5. Don’t cut wild flowers. In England since the Second World War 22 wild flower species have disappeared forever? 317 are standing on the brink. And in conclusion all of us should always remember the wise advice of a great English writer John Galsworthy who said: “If you don’t think about the future you will not have it” (слайд 11).

Teacher: Dear boys and girls, now you know how dangerous the ecological situation on our Earth is. You are future engineers, scientists, railway workers, teachers, ecologists. You will continue addressing the ecological environmental problems which concern everyone. The positive results depend on serious attention of the people of the whole world to this problem. You will work out new projects, new slogans. You will be active members of the movement for the protection of the environment from further pollution.