Данная разработка содержит тексты с заданиями для 6-7 классов, подобранные по темам УМК  «Stralight» и «Spotlight» для данных классов .Также здесь приводятся возможные приемы работы с текстом.

Weather

1.Look at the title and give all the words you know on the topic( brainstorm)

2.Read the text and write out all the word on the topic weather

The weather is a subject we can always talk about. It often changes anid brings cold and heat, sunshine and rain, frost and snow. One day is often unlike the next.

In summer the sun shines, often there is no wind and there are no clouds in the sky which is blue and beautiful. We can see stars and the moon at night and people like walks, outdoor games and sports in the fresh air.

When autumn comes, the days become shorter and colder. It gets dark earlier and often heavy clouds cover the sky bringing rain with them. Sometimes there is heavy rain, so that an umbrella or a raincoat is necessary if we don't want to get wet through. Then you can hear people say, "What bad weather! When is this rain going to stop?" Many people then catch cold and must go to bed. Then a fire at home is so pleasant.

At last frost and snow come. Fields, forests and houses are covered with snow and rivers and lakes with ice.We do not spend much time outdoors in winter.

But spring again brings sunshine and warm winds. Sometimes it snows but snow will not remain long, it will melt in the warm sun." Spring will bring bright sunshine, green grass and flowers.

We usually say: "A nice day", "Not a bad day" or "It's nice weather for the time of the year" if the weather is fine. We can say: "It looks like rain", "It looks like snow" or "It's bad weather" when the weather is bad.

As for me, I like autumn best of all. The days become shorter and the nights longer. It isn't so hot in the day-time. The trees are covered with yellow and red leaves. At the end of summer apples, pears, plums and other fruit become ripe. In the South there are many oranges, peaches and tangerines. Autumn is pleasant when it does not rain. Generally autumn is a rainy season of the year. When it rains the weather is nasty. The sky is covered with heavy clouds. It drizzles. It is muddy and wet.

3.Answer the questions on the text

1) What is the subject of weather like?

2) What is the weather like in  the summer and autumn?

3) What is the weather like in the winters and spring?

4) Which expressions do we use to describe weather?

4.In groups make up  a weather forecast.

5.Make up a cluster with all the words on the weather topic from the text

6.Retell the text in pairs

7 Choose a card with the name of a season and say all what you know about it. Talk not less than for 1 min.

 Shopping in UK

Check the words: attract ,variety, profit , stall, value, well-trained staff, encourage, tempt, temptation, layout, total turn over, tremendously

1.Make up sinquines about shopping

2. Read the first line of each paragraph and guess what it is going to be about  

3.Read the text and do the multiple choice on it

1) Britain is…

a. a rich country

b.a great country for shopping

c.a country with a lot of tourist attractions

2) it all started..

a) 300 years ago

b) in 2000

c) 105 years ago

3) Michael Marks was…

a.Russian

b.Polish

c. British

4) his motto was…

a.don’t ask how much- it’s a dollar

b. don’t ask much –it’s a penny

c. don’t ask much- it’s expensive

5) They base their business on…

a. well- trained stuff

b. on excellent conditions of work

c. 3 principals

5) They sell only…

a. food

b. furniture

c. clothes and food

6) Their success is due…

a. excellent location

b. enterprising managemnet and attractive layout

c.special free gifts

Britain is a great country for  shopping. Marks & Spencer is  one of Britain's famous brand. Tourists love it too. It attracts a great variety of customers from house wives to millionaires. Princess Diana, Dustin Hoffman and the British Prime-minister are just a few of its famous customers. Once it made a profit of 529 million pounds per a year. This is more than 10 million a week.

It all started 105 years ago when a young Polish immigrant Michael Marks had a stall in Leeds market. He didn't have many things to sell: some cotton, a little wool, lots of buttons and a few shoelaces. Above his stall he put the now famous notice: "Don't ask how much - it's a penny." Ten years later he met Tom Spencer and together they started Penny stalls in many towns in the North of England. Today there are 564 branches of Marks & Spencer all over the world: in America, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium and Hungary.

The store bases its business on 3 principals: good value, good quality and good service. Also, it changes with the times; once it was all jumpers and knickers. Now it is food, furniture and flowers as well. Top fashion designers advice on styles of clothes. Perhaps, the most important key to its success is its happy well-trained staff. Conditions of work are excellent. There are company doctors, dentists, hairdressers, etc. And all the staff can have lunch for fewer than 40 pence.

Surprisingly tastes in food and clothes are international. What sells well in Paris, sells just as well in Newcastle and Moscow. Their best selling clothes are: for women - jumpers and knickers (M & S is famous for its knickers); for men - shirts, socks, pyjamas, dressing gowns and suits; for children - underwear and socks. Best sellers in food include: fresh chickens, vegetables and sandwiches, “Chicken Kiev” is internationally the most popular convince food. Shopping in Britain is also famous for its Freshfood. Freshfood is a chain of food stores and very successful supermarkets which has grown tremendously in the twenty years since it was founded, and now it has branches in the High Streets of all the towns of any size in Britain. In the beginning the stores sold only foodstuffs, but in recent years they have diversified enormously and now sell clothes, books, records, electrical and domestic equipment.

The success of the chain has been due to an enterprising management and to attractive layout and display in the stores. It has been discovered that impulse buying accounts for almost 35 per cent of the total turn over of the stores. The stores are organized completely for self-service and customers are encouraged to wander around the spaciously laid out stands. Special free gifts and reduced prices are used to tempt customers into the stores and they can't stand the temptation.

4.Make a cluster with words you learned from the text on the topic shopping and brand

5.Choose one paragraph for retelling

6.Give a short summary of the text in groups and present it to the class

London

1.Look at the title and guess which facts you can learn from the text. Right the ideas on the board

2.Read the text, check your guesses and tick the right ideas.

3.Check the words: surburbs, ancient, cathedral

London is the capital of the United Kingdom, its economic, political and cultural center. It is one of the world's most important ports and one of the largest cities in the world. London with its suburbs has a population of about 11 million people.

London has been a capital for nearly a thousand years. Many of its ancient buildings still stand. The most famous of them are the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's Cathedral. Most visitors also want to see the Houses of Parliament and the many magnificent museums.

Once London was a small Roman town of the north bank of the Thames. Slowly it grew into one of the world's major cities.

Different areas of London seem like different cities. The West End is a rich man's world of shops, offices and theatres. The City of London is the district where most offices and banks are concentrated; the Royal Exchange and the Bank of England are here, too. The East End is a district where mostly working people live. The old port area is now called "Docklands". There are now new office buildings in Docklands, and thousands of new flats and houses.

By the day the whole of London is busy. At night, offices are quiet and empty, but the West End stays alive, because this is where Londoners come to enjoy themselves. There are two opera houses here, several concert halls and many theatres, as well as cinemas. In nearby Soho the pubs and restaurants and nightclubs are busy half the night.

4.Read the text and answer the questions

1) What is London ?

2) Which ancient buildings are mentioned in the text?

3) Which districts are there in London  ?

4) How do day life   and night life differ in London?

5 Find the names of tourist attractions in the text and make a virtual trip around London

6.Move around the class and express your opinion about London with other students

Ecological Problems

1.look at the title and quickly give the ideas what the text can be about( brainstorm)

2.Look through the text and check  your ideas

3.Check the words: source,environment,interference,increase,harmful,pollute,byproducts,destruction of the ozone layer, vast, disappearance,disaster,consequence,damage

3. In pairs interview each other to find out what you know about ecological problems

4.Read the text and fill in your INSERT chart

Since ancient times Nature has served Man, being the source of his life. For thousands of years people lived in harmony with environment and it seemed to them that natural riches were unlimited. But with the development of civilization man's interference in nature began to increase.

Large cities with thousands of smoky industrial enterprises appear all over the world today. The byproducts of their activity pollute the air we breathe, the water we drink, the land we grow grain and vegetables on.

Every year world industry pollutes the athmosphere with about 1000 million tons of dust and other harmful substances. Many cities suffer from smog. Vast forests are cut and burn in fire. Their disappearance upsets the oxygen balance. As a result some rare species of animals, birds, fish and plants disappear forever, a number of rivers and lakes dry up.

The pollution of air and the world's ocean, destruction of the ozone layer is the result of man's careless interaction with nature, a sign of the ecological crises.

The most horrible ecological disaster befell Ukraine and its people after the Chernobyl tragedy in April 1986. About 18 percent of the territory of Belarus were also polluted with radioactive substances. A great damage has been done to the agriculture, forests and people's health. The consequences of this explosion at the atomic power-station are tragic for the Ukrainian, Bylarussian and other nations.

Environmental protection is of a universal concern. That is why serious measures to create a system of ecological security should be taken.

Some progress has been already made in this direction. As many as 159 countries - members of the UNO - have set up environmental protection agencies. Numerous conferences have been held by these agencies to discuss problems facing ecologically poor regions including the Aral Sea, the South Urals, Kuzbass, Donbass, Semipalatinsk and Chernobyl. An international environmental research centre has been set up on Lake Baikal. The international organisation Greenpeace is also doing much to preserve the environment.

But these are only the initial steps and they must be carried onward to protect nature, to save life on the planet not only for the sake of the present but also for the future generations.

5.Read the text and answer the questions

1.Why did the man ‘s interference increase?

2.How do people pollute the environment?

3.What happens to wild nature?

4.What are the signs of the ecological crisis?

5.What happened in 1986?

6.What should people do to protect the nature?

6.Now work with your insert charts in groups and discuss what new you learned. Present the results to other groups.

7.to sum up the work  draw a «fishobone» on the board