Компетентностно-ориентированные задания по английскому языку
методическая разработка по английскому языку

Компетентностно-ориентированные задания по английскому языку

Автор: Позднякова Оксана Григорьевна

Характеристика задания (информация для учителя):

Предмет: английский язык

 Класс: 11

Тема: Страноведение «География России. Иркутская область.»        

Ключевая компетентность и аспект:        Информационная, поиск информации, письменная коммуникация.

Стимул (погружает в контекст задания, мотивирует на выполнение): 

Россия – огромная страна, занимает часть Евразийского материка, простираясь от Балтики на западе до Тихого океана на востоке, от Северного Ледовитого океана на севере до Кавказа на юге. Иркутская область находится на шестом месте в России по площади. Расстояние от Москвы до Иркутска – 5 042 км. География Иркутской области чрезвычайно разнообразна.

Задачная формулировка:

Прочитайте географический очерк о России. Заполните таблицу. (Read the profile of Russia and then complete the table).

Источник (содержит информацию, необходимую для успешной деятельности учащегося по выполнению задания):

The Russian Federation belongs to the largest countries under the sun. The great territory of our country is situated in Eurasia. Eurasia is the largest of the six continents and Russia occupies an area which is one third of Eurasia. The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea, and Caspian Sea. The Asian part is drained into the Arctic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are Volga (which is the longest river in Europe), Pechora, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dnieper and the Western Dvina.

In Asia, important rivers are the Ob, the Irtysh, the Amur, the Yana, the Indigirka. Russia borders on eighteen countries: Norway, Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Georgia, China, Kazakhstan, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Mongolia, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, USA and Japan. The total length of the Russian boundary is about 62000 km. There are very many mountains on the territory of Russia. The Altai, the Caucasus and the Urals are the main chains of mountains in our country. There are lakes Onega, Taimyr, White lake, Ilmen and the deepest lake with the purest water in the world Lake Baikal in our country.  At present the population of the Russian Federation numbers over 150 million people. More than eleven million people live in the Russian capital Moscow.

1.Прочитайте текст еще раз и напишите географический очерк об Иркутской области. (Read the text again and write a similar one about Irkutsk region. Use the map to help.)

Инструмент проверки (информация для учителя):

Suggested answers:

Suggested answers: 

Irkutsk region is a federal subject of Russia located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Vitim Rivers. The administrative center is the city Irkutsk. It borders the Republic of Buryatia and the Tuva Republic in the south and southwest, which separate it from Mongolia; Krasnoyarsk Krai in the west; the Sakha Republic in the northeast; and Zabaykalsky Krai in the east. There are many towns in Irkutsk region: Bratsk, Angarsk, Tulun, Cheremkhovo, Ust-Kut, Ust-Ilimsk, Kirensk It consists mostly of the hills and broad valleys of the Central Siberian Plateau and of its eastern extension, the Patom Plateau. In the south the oblast extends to the eastern crestline of the Sayan Mountains. Dense taiga dominated by Siberian and Dahurian larch, with pine, stone pine, fir, and spruce, occurs throughout the oblast; in the south there are small patches of mixed forest and steppe. The unique and world-famous Lake Baikal is located in the southeast of the region. It is drained by the Angara, which flows north across the province.