выступление на конкурсе учителей иностранных языков "За совершенство" 2011
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The Award of Excellence

Someone once told me that every moment in your life is the first. Most moments go by that you don’t even notice them but some… soma are hard to forget. (presentation 1)

My name is Elena Mirzoeva. I’ve been an English teacher for 8 years already.

Thinking of the future presentation I couldn’t get rid of the image of a computer monitor screen with a lot of folders. Why& It can be compared with my memory with a lot of life moments. And if it had been possible to get any moment from your memory just with a click of a mouse.

Well, why not imagine that? (presentation 2)

(showing at the names of the folders on the screen.)

And this is the English Communication club. This is the story I’d like to share.

I’ve always been interested in the variety of English accents. Surfing the Net I occasionally run across a video of an American comedian Alan Gold on yourube. Com He was talking about different English accents in a quite funny way. (presentation 3)

According to him every accent has a weird relationship with one letter. For instance, the Germans are crazy to letter Z (e.g. Ze guy I saw Zat morning in Ze coffee houZe). For Russians it is letter Y. They put it berween every other letter, like “Thyis tryaffic is unbyeliyevable. I cyan’t belyieve it.” The British have weird relationship with the letter T. Sometimes they overpronunciate the leTTer, like thaTTT, sometimes they ignore the le(tt)er comple(t)ely.

The point is that the topic seemed to me interesting and hilarious, helping to gain understanding in cultural and linguistic differences.

After viewing the video, supported with some exercises for its better understanding, we decided to try these accents by ourselves. That was definitely fun. But not enough for me. I asked my students using online resources find and practice and present in class distinguishing characters in British and American languages. Here’s the fragment of the video. (presentation 4)

(presentation 5) To finish I’d like to say that…

… someone once told me that every moment in my life is the first. And I know that in my life moments like these will always be.

Thank you.