Счастье - что это?/ What Is Happiness?
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (10 класс)

План-конспект открытого урока английского языка в 10 А классе

«Happiness: what is it? »

Цель урока:

формирование у обучающихся целостного представления об изучаемом материале.

Задачи:

а) образовательная 

• актуализировать знания и представления учащихся о счастье;

• улучшить навыки логического высказывания по теме;

• совершенствовать навыки чтения, восприятия речи на слух и умения говорить на основе прочитанного и услышанного

б) развивающая 

 - развитие коммуникативности,

 - самостоятельности,

 - развитие способностей к логическому изложению, к формулированию выводов.

в) воспитательная

 - формирование сознательного отношения к этическим нормам,

-  воспитание уважительного отношения к мнению других людей.

Тип урока: урок-обобщение

Формы организации познавательной деятельности учащихся:

фронтальная, индивидуальная, работа в группах, парах

Учебно-методическое обеспечение:

УМК Английский язык – Афанасьева О.В. учебник для X класса школ с углублённым изучением англ. языка лицеев.  Дополнительные материалы

Оснащение: мультимедийный проектор, ПК, выход в Интернет, презентация

урока, раздаточный материал – тексты для чтения, доска.

План урока

1. Организационный момент (объявление темы, целей и задач урока)

2. Фронтальная работа – опрос, как учащиеся понимают счастье для себя

3. Просмотр видеоролика

4. Беседа на основе просмотренного материала

5. Чтение текста в группах

6. Обсуждение прочитанного

7. Формулировка выводов - как можно достичь счастье

9. Объяснение домашнего задания

Ход урока:

You know that happiness can be understood and interpreted in various ways.

There is no magic (universal) formula for happiness but some of the aspects may be considered  universal.

For some people it is – to be free, healthy, wealthy, to have an interesting occupation and so on.

And what is happiness for you?

How is it possible to define the word «happiness»?

(учащиеся дают краткие ответы, учитель записывает на доске)

1. Просмотр видеоролика (учитель английского языка)

You are going to watch a small video film. Be attentive and try to remember

what happiness is for different people. Add some ideas to our list.

(видеофрагмент)

2. Беседа на основе просмотренного материала

Учащиеся называют услышанные слова

3. Чтение текстов в группах (учитель английского языка)

Let’s try to answer the question how it is possible to achieve happiness. What do you need to do or have to become happy? Read the text, discuss it in groups and answer the main question about happiness.

4.Обсуждение прочитанного (учитель английского языка). Учащиеся отвечают на вопросы, обсуждают выданные им тексты в группах, выбирают выступающего. При обсуждении каждого текста учащиеся должны самостоятельно выделить основные положения – ключевые слова для ответа на главный вопрос.

Text 1. A Fairy-Tale

Once upon a time there lived a peasant. He had a big family-an old mother, a wife, six children, a sick horse and a hen. But the peasant was so poor, that he had no money to feed his relatives and the cattle, no money to send his two daughters to school, to buy decent clothes for his beloved wife. His wife had only one old shabby dress.

        One day an old woman knocked at his door and asked permission for the nights’ lodging. The peasant opened the door and let her in. “But listen, old woman, he said, “I’m poor and can’t give you much food and new clothes. Here is some bread and some milk for you. Sorry, that’s all I can give you.” The woman thanked him and he saw tears in her eyes.

         In the morning the woman said to the peasant” You’ve saved my life, you’ll be rewarded for this. I’m not a beggar, as you might think, I’m Happiness and I can make any wish of yours. It will bring happiness into your house. But if you don’t come back until the sun sets, none of your wishes will ever come true. You can discuss your wish with the family and tell me. Hurry up!” the poor peasant didn’t know what to do.

        He went back to his family and told them everything. A heated discussion started…everyone wanted something special- the sick mother asked for good health, the peasant’s wife wanted a beautiful dress and a diamond necklace, his elder daughters asked for rich husbands, his small children wanted a big cake and many toys. While they were arguing, they completely forgot about the dead line. When it was all over, a new day has already started. Certainly, Happiness had gone by that time.

 What do you think about the formula for success:

4.Выполнение лексико-грамматических упражнений в формате ЕГЭ по теме урока (на экране слайд презентации)

6.Объяснение домашнего задания (учитель английского языка)

At home you are going to write a small essay “What is happiness for me”

(150-200 words). Don’t forget about the ideas and the key words from the lesson.

ПРИЛОЖЕНИЕ

TEXT 1

Read the text and discuss the following questions:

1. Why doesn’t wealth, education, youth, marriage, sunny days, religion make the human heart sing? What about friends?

2. What should we do to achieve happiness?

Additional Texts

What Makes People Happy

So, what have scientists learned about what makes the human hearts sing? Take wealth, for instance, and all the delightful things that money can buy. Research by American psychologists has shown that once your basic needs are met, additional income does little to raise your sense of satisfaction with life.

A good education? Sorry, Mom and Dad, neither education nor a high IQ opens the road of happiness.

Youth? No, again. In fact, older people are more satisfied with their lives than the young. And they’re less prone to dark moods. A recent survey found that people aged 20 to 24 are sad for an average of 3-4 days a month and people aged 65 to 74 are sad just 2-3 days a month.

Marriage? Married people are generally happier than singles, but that may be because they were happy to begin with.

On the positive side, religious faith seems to lift the spirit, though it’s tough (сложно) to tell whether it’s the God part or the community aspect that does the heavy lifting.

Friends? May be yes. In 2002 the University of Illinois found that the most prominent characteristics shared by the 10% of students with the highest levels of happiness and the fewest signs of depression were their strong ties to friends and family and commitment (обязательство) to spending time with them.

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Words need to be spread – we should conclude. It is important to work on social skills, close

interpersonal ties and social support in order to be happy.

TEXT 2

Read the text and discuss the following questions:

1. What makes Oprah Winfrey one of America’s most popular celebrities?

2. What has she done to achieve such a great success?

Oprah Winfrey. A success story

Oprah Winfrey is the multiple-award-winning American host of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the

highest-rated talk show in TV history. She’s also a billionaire (миллиардер) and one of America’s most popular celebrities. Some people consider her the most influential woman in the world. So how did she

become so successful?

Born in 1954, in Mississippi, Oprah Winfrey had an unhappy adolescence (отрочество,юность) in a small farming community. When she was 13 she moved to Nashville to live with her father.  In 1971 she studied

Speech Communications and Performing Arts at Tennessee State University. She began her career in

broadcasting in Nashville, then moved to Baltimore, where she hosted the TV chat show «People Are

Talking». It was here, when the show became a hit, that she discovered her talent as a chat show host.

After eight years Oprah moved to a Chicago TV station to host the morning show.

People loved her open, warm-hearted style and the show shot to the top of the ratings. In 1985 the show was renamed «The Oprah Winfrey Show». With its placement on 120 channels and an audience of 10 million people, the show made &125 million by the end of its first year, and it also won three awards.

Oprah’s success led to nationwide fame and a role in Steven Spielberg’s film version of Alice

Walker’s book The Color Purple. Her performance resulted in nominations for an Oscar and Golden

Globe Award in the category of Best Supporting Actress. Critics again praised her performance in Native Son, a film adaptation of Richard Wright’s classic 1940 novel.

In the 1990s when chat shows were becoming poor quality and exploitative, Oprah refused to let her own show go the same way. Although ratings initially fell, she earned the respect of her viewers and was soon rewarded with an increase in popularity. Her love of acting and her desire to bring quality entertainment projects into production prompted her to form her own production company in 1986 – named HARPO Productions which is “Oprah” spelled backwards(наоборот)!

Oprah’s achievements as a chat show host, an actress and a business-woman haven’t stopped her having a happy home life. She’s been with her partner for over twenty years and although she’s never had children, has referred to the girls who attend her charity academy in South Africa as her “daughters”. However, her charitable work doesn’t stop in South Africa. Oprah is generally considered to be one of the greatest philanthropists (человек, занимающийся благотворительностью) in American history, having raised more than 50 million.

TEXT 3

Read the text and discuss the following questions:

1. Why doesn’t everybody manage to succeed in life? What are the negative sides of

success?

2. How can people achieve success?

Ways of Being Successful

Of course not everybody manages to succeed in life. All successful businessmen, actors or musicians face a number of challenges at the beginning of their career. They have hard times overcoming many difficulties but they don’t give up. At last their persistence leads to success. One must be hard-working, patient, strong-willed and self-confident (самоуверенный) if one wants to be successful. Success always goes hand in hand with hard work and great efforts and very often one faces a lot of obstacles, troubles, disappointment and failure on the way to success.

Some people forget about integrity and honour striving for success, wealth and glory. When they achieve their goal, it doesn’t make them happy. On the contrary, they feel disillusioned and dissatisfied. Having climbed the ladder of success they find nothing worthwhile on the top. A person shouldn’t use any means and take any risks achieving success. Many people today are under so much pressure to succeed that some admit they will lie, cheat, do something morally wrong and even sacrifice their private life and health if it helps them to get on. Many ambitious people who want success at any cost move their families, friends and hobbies to the background. People who work too much trying to achieve their goals or to be promoted don’t go in for sports, sit up very late, skip meals, smoke excessively and feel stressed.

But can a person be successful if he isn’t happy? The link between happiness and success was investigated by a team from the University of California Riverside. According to their research “happiness, rather than working hard, is the key to success”.

Psychologists say that “cheerful people are more likely to try new things and challenge themselves, which reinforces positive emotion and leads to success in work, good relationships and strong health”. So happiness is essential to people’s well-being. Prof Diener said, “We define success as obtaining the things that culture or society values, whether it be

 friends, close family, money and income, or long life.” (долголетие)

Let’s try to deduce a formula for  success.

Hard work + enthusiasm + love of your work = success

A person is successful if he uses all his talents to improve the world and leaves it a bit better, whether by bringing up a healthy child, planting a tree or building a house.

Success is not only a good career. It is also having a balance in life and helping other people. As somebody has rightly said, “Success is the completion of anything intended”.

If you ask people about happiness, you will probably receive many different answers to your question. Some would say that happiness means being wealthy. Others would say that to for them, happiness means to be healthy. You will find people saying that for them happiness means having love in their life, having many friends, a good job, or achieving a certain goal.

There are people, who believe that the fulfillment (осуществление) of a certain wish would create happiness in their life, but this is not always true. Often, when we get our wish fulfilled, we just move the next wish, without even enjoying and celebrating our achievement.

You may enjoy a good meal, a movie, a show or a vacation, and you may have fun at a party, but this is pleasure and fun, not necessarily happiness.

What Is Happiness? Various Meanings and Definitions

People throughout the ages have asked this question. They wondered what this feeling of happiness is, what makes it arise, and how to hold it longer.

Happiness often comes and goes. It comes, stays for a little while, and then some negative feeling replaces it and it is gone.

Wikipedia defines happiness as, “Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by, among others, positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.”

Wikipedia also says, “Philosophers  often define happiness in terms of living a good life, or flourishing, rather than simply as an emotion.”

I would like to suggest another definition to happiness, which I found from experience.

When a problem disappears, when you achieve a goal and when there is love in your life, the mind becomes quiet for a while, and relieved of its restless and constant thinking. At this moment, the happiness within you rises up and you feel happy.

It is a positive emotion that makes you feel good and satisfied.

Happy people are positive, optimistic, tolerant and more patient people. They are helpful and it is easier to get along with them.

Happiness expands your mind and your vision, and improves your ability to solve problems.

Составить единый рецепт из кусочков:

Take a bowl of patience,

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 Pour love into it,

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 Add two handful of generosity,

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Sprinkle with kindness,

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 Splash a bit of humour and add faith as much as possible.

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Mix everything thoroughly.

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Spread on a slice of your life

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and offer to everyone whom you meet on your way.”

Let’s read a fairy-tale about  HAPPINESS

Проанализировать текст. Нужно ли им счастье? Бедный – счастливый или наоборот?

Что для них является счастьем?

        Once upon a time there lived a peasant. He had a big family-an old mother, a wife, six children, a sick horse and a hen. But the peasant was so poor, that he had no money to feed his relatives and the cattle, no money to send his two daughters to school, to buy decent clothes for his beloved wife. His wife had only one old shabby dress.

        One day an old woman knocked at his door and asked permission for the nights’ lodging. The peasant opened the door and let her in. “But listen, old woman, he said, “I’m poor and can’t give you much food and new clothes. Here is some bread and some milk for you. Sorry, that’s all I can give you.” The woman thanked him and he saw tears in her eyes.

         In the morning the woman said to the peasant” You’ve saved my life, you’ll be rewarded for this. I’m not a beggar, as you might think, I’m Happiness and I can make any wish of yours. It will bring happiness into your house. But if you don’t come back until the sun sets, none of your wishes will ever come true. You can discuss your wish with the family and tell me. Hurry up!” the poor peasant didn’t know what to do.

He went back to his family and told them everything. A heated discussion started…everyone wanted something special- the sick mother asked for good health, the peasant’s wife wanted a beautiful dress and a diamond necklace, his elder daughters asked for rich husbands, his small children wanted a big cake and many toys. While they were arguing, they completely forgot about the dead line. When it was all over, a new day has already started. Certainly, Happiness had gone by that time.

К заданию по фильму

 Что говорят о счастье люди в фильме

1. I see happiness through people’s eyes.

2. Happiness really turns me on.

3. When we believe in happiness – happiness will occur.

4. Happiness is something like happiness.

5. You are happy when you do whatever you want. Happiness is just being yourself.

6. Happiness may inside. It comes from your heart.

1. Complete the sentences

1. Happiness is ….

2. The heart is happy when …..

3.  .… makes us happy.

4 …… makes us lonely.

5. The place to be happy is ….. . The time to be happy is … . The way to be happy is …. .

6. Happiness will never come to those who …. .

7. When we are happy we  ….

8. To learn to be happy and optimistic you should … .

        2. Write an essay “What is happiness for me”

        (150-200 words). Don’t forget about the ideas and the key words from the lesson.

1. Do you consider yourself a happy person? Why?

2. What do you need to do or to have to become happy?

3. What things usually make you happy? unhappy?

4.Which things help you to cope with a black mood?

5. In your future life which will be more important for your happiness – your work, your family or anything else?

6. How can you create happiness for other people?