Columbus Day.
план-конспект урока (8 класс) на тему

Класс: 8

Тема: The traditions of the United States of America. Columbus Day.

Задачи:

1. Учебная – развитие навыков изучающего чтения, диалогической и монологической речи, повторение лексических единиц по теме «Праздники. Традиции».

2. Развивающая – развитие психических процессов, языковой и контекстуальной догадки.

3. Познавательная – приобретение знаний о традициях и обычаях стран изучаемого языка, расширение социокультурного кругозора учащихся через двусторонний диалог.

4. Воспитательная - воспитание позитивного отношения к культуре страны изучаемого языка и воспитание патриотизма сравнении праздников и традиций разных стран, развитие умений общения с партнерами в диалоге.

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Ход урока:

1. Психологический настрой

1. организационный момент

Good morning, pupils. I am glad to see you. What date is it today? Who is absent today?  Let’s continue our trip to English- speaking countries. Today we speak about traditions of English-speaking countries.

Look at the blackboard. We start the lesson with a poem about traveling. Listen to me. I’ll read the poem. Read it yourselves.

O, Traveler!                                        (О, путешественник!)
Don`t stop now in the road                 (Не останавливайся сейчас на дороге)
There still remains much travel          (Еще осталось много путешествий)
You cannot measure the distance       (Ты не можешь измерить расстояние)
Of life and death                                 (Жизни и смерти)
Who knows where and when?            (Кто знает где и когда?)
Has started this travel                         (Началось твое путешествие)
And where it ends                               (И где оно заканчивается)
Travel is life!                                      (Путешествие это жизнь!)

2. речевая зарядка

Remember what you have known about English-speaking countries. Answer my questions:

1. What countries do people speak English in?

2. What festivals do Americans and British celebrate?

3. What are American and British festivals connected with?

4. What are the most famous festivals in the UK and the USA?

2. Основной этап

1. повторение страноведческого материала

This lesson we are making a trip to one of the English-speaking countries. Look at the blackboard. These are pictures and names of three English- speaking countries. What are these countries?

Read three notes and answer the question: What English- speaking countries are they about?

        The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Australia, the United States of America.

        It’s situated in the central part of the North American continent. The population of the country is more than 236 million people. It is one of the richest countries in the world. It’s a young country. But it is rich in traditions. People of this country like celebrating national, ethnic and religious occasions.

Yes, you are right; we are making a trip to the USA.

What are Americans said to be?

What American holidays do you know? When are they celebrated? Match the names and the dates of holidays.

2. работа с текстом

The United States of America is a young country, but it has got a lot of traditions and customs, a lot of holidays. One of them is called Columbus Day. Let’s introduce its history.

You have got texts about Columbus Day. Let’s read and do some tasks. You can see unknown words on the board. Read them.

Task 1 – Continue the sentences which are on the board.

• The purpose of Columbus’s expedition was …
• Columbus and his people went …
• Their ships were …
• They arrived in the new continent on …
• They discovered …
• They took the new lands for …
• The continent was named after …

Task 2 -  Make notes to the pictures using the text.

Task 3 – Read the sentences and find out if they are true or false. Correct sentences if it’s necessary.

• In honour of Columbus the statue was designed and built.
• First the discovery of America was celebrated on the fourteenth of November, 1866.
• Columbus Day was introduced by President Abraham Lincoln.
• It is celebrated on the third Tuesday in October.

Task 4 – You have introduced one of American holidays. What do you think? Why are Columbus Day and other holidays important and popular?

3. повторение лексических единиц по теме

We have remembered some American holidays. Guess the crossword. Put down the names of American holidays into the crossword. Some letters and the name of one of holidays have already been here. Find out the name of the holiday which isn’t given in the list.

New Year - Christmas - Easter - St Valentine’s - Halloween - Thanksgiving - Columbus - Independence – Father’s – Mother’s – Flag

3. Заключительный этап

The lesson goes to the end. You have worked very well. I put you such marks as … Open your diaries and put down your home task.

         Columbus Day                   

In the fifteenth century people wanted to find an easier route to Asia [́eɪʃǝ], to find the rich treasures of India [́ɪndɪǝ]. They travelled past Africa to the east. Christopher Columbus [́krɪstoөǝ kǝ́lʌmbǝs] talked to Queen Isabella of Spain and said that it would be easier to sail directly to west.

On August third, 1942, he and about two hundred men went west on a flagship Santa Maria [́sӕntǝ mǝ́rɪǝ] and two others, the Pinta [́pintǝ] and the Nina [́nɪ:nǝ]. Three long months ago his men became tired and sick. On October eleventh Columbus saw a light. The next morning they landed.

Christopher Columbus and his team had expected to see livers of India and called them “Indians”. Columbus named that place San Salvador [sӕn sǝlvӕ́dɔ:].

Columbus died a rich and famous man, but he never learnt what he had discovered.

The continent wasn’t named after Columbus, but an Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci [ӕmǝ́rɪgoʊ veśpʊʧɪ]. But in 1792 Washington [́wɔʃɪηtǝn] was officially named the District of Columbia and became the capital of the United States. In 1892 the statue of Columbus was built in Columbus Avenue [́ӕvɪnjʊ] in New York.

Americans don’t have a Columbus Day if Christopher Columbus hadn’t been born in Italy. The Italian population of New York was proud of him and organized the first celebration of the discovery of America on October twelfth, 1866.

In 1937 President Franklin Roosevelt [́frӕnklin ́rʊzvelt] introduced Columbus Day. Since 1971, it has been celebrated on the second Monday in October.

Task:

Guess the crossword. Put down the names of American holidays into the crossword. Some letters and the name of one of holidays have already been here. Find out the name of the holiday which isn’t given in the list.

1. New Year’s Eve                    6. Columbus  

2. Christmas                              7. Independence

3. St Valentine’s                       8. New Year

4. Halloween                            9. Father’s

5. Thanksgiving                       10. Mother’s

                                                 11. Flag