How to become famous
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (7 класс) на тему

How to become famous

I. Организационный момент, введение темы

Hello! I’m very glad to see you.

What is the date today?

What is the day today?

Who is absent?

During some lessons we spoke about many famous people of English-speaking countries and Russia. Do you remember their names?

At this lesson we’ll revise vocabulary and grammar and read the text about one of the famous Americans.

II. Фонетическое упражнение

T: I’d like to begin our lesson with a question. What is a quotation?

P: A quotation is …

T: Listen to the quotation which belongs to one of the great men. Read it and translate.

“To get together is the beginning,
To stay together is a progress,
To work together is a success”.

Do you know who these words belong to? Then we’ll learn it later.

III. Повторение лексики

People of different professions can be proud at any country. What are these professions?

1) Fill in the letters and read the words.

C_smon_ut, wa_ri_r, pol_ti_ian, c_mpos_ _, sp_rt_man, mus_cian, s_ _enti_t, pla_ _ri_ _t,  acti_ns, id_as, co_rag_, d_ _ds, hard work, ac_i_vem_nts.

Read the words all together.

2) Give the explanation of the following words.

Ex: An playwright is a person who writes plays.

3) Make up sentences with the words.
4) Here you can see the portraits of famous people. Your task is to say who they are and why you think people respect or love these people?

Ex: Audrey Hepburn is an actress. People respect her for her films.

But first of all let’s read the proper names.

IV. Обучение чтению

Do you remember the quotation we’ve read at the beginning of the lesson? It’s time to learn who said it. Before reading the text I want you to listen to the story. The story will be in Russian.

“В 1872 году сын ирландского иммигранта упал с лошади во время работы на ферме своего отца близ города Дирборн (штат Мичиган, США). Именно в этот день он решил создать такое транспортное средство, которое бы не причиняло страданий и было бы более надежным, чем транспортные средства с использованием силы животных. этим наездником-неудачником был …”

Do you have any suggestions?

V. Cемантизация лексики

down-to-earth family – common family

experiments

automobile

assembly line

Detroit, the USA

1863,1869, 1903, 1908, 1914

Listen and repeat the words after me.

Open your books and read the text. (ex.1 (b), p.164)

1) What is the best title for the story?
2) Give the English for: изменили мир, обожал машины, построил первый автомобиль, машиностроение, etc.
3) Answer the questions:

What personal information did you learn?

What did you learn about his childhood?

What made him famous?

4)

5) Look through the text and read out the sentences with Infinitive as an attribute and relative clauses with whose.

VI. Работа по карточкам

Now you’ll get different cards with the tasks for your text.

Card 1

Put the sentences into the right order according to the text.

1. When he was 16, he went to Detroit to work in a machine shop.
2. He started the Ford Foundation that supported different programmes in education and culture.
3. In 1903, when he was 40, he started the Ford Motor Company.
4. He was born in 1863.
5. The company made the model T Ford in 1908.
6. In 1896 he built his first automobile.

Card 2

Correct the mistakes in the text.

He came from rich family. He was born in 1896. He lived in Detroit. When he was a boy, he was glad to live on the farm. When he was 26, he went to Paris to work in a food shop. He started the Ford Foundation that supported different programmes in shipbuilding. In 1903, when he was 71, he started the Toyota Motor Company. The company made the model T Ford in 1910. In 1896 he built his first ship.

VII. Контроль выполнения заданий

Let’s check some of the tasks, for example Card 1

VIII. Подведение итогов

We’ve revised Vocabulary and read the text about one of the great Americans. Now you can answer the question “Who do these words belong to”? You are right. These words belong to the famous American businessman Henry Ford.