Защита окружающей среды
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (8 класс) на тему

Конспект открытого урока в 8 классе по теме «Охрана окружающей среды»

Форма урока: комбинированный урок

Цель урока:

совершенствование коммуникативной компетенции учащихся по теме «Проблемы окружающей среды».

Задачи:

Образовательные

• Применить на практике лексику по изученной теме.
• Практиковать обсуждение проблемы по данной теме в диалогическом и монологическом высказывании.
• Закрепить лексико-грамматические навыки в контексте «Проблемы окружающей среды»
• Тренировать навыки письменной речи.

Развивающие

• Развивать умение учащихся работать с информацией, а именно извлечь информацию из услышанного или увиденного.
• Формировать способность к языковой догадке, сравнению и формулированию выводов.

   Воспитательные

• Прививать чувство уважения и бережного отношения  к окружающей среде.
• Воспитывать у учащихся активную жизненную позицию.

Оборудование к уроку

1.Технические средства обучения:

компьютер, мультимедийный проектор

2.Программное обеспечение:

Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Word, Internet Explore

3.Наглядные пособия:

Видеофильмы “Wonderful world”, “Environmental problems”.

4.Дидактический материал: карточки с фразам.

The plan of the lesson

1. The beginning of the lesson

T: Dear friends!

Today I want you to think and speak about the place of a man in nature. Why did the writer say “To protect the nature means to protect the Motherland”? Moreover: what must people do to protect our common home - our planet? How do people of different countries try to keep the environment clean? I want to believe you’ll manage to use all the information you know on the topic “Keep our environment clean” during our lesson.

So, what do you think we are going to do today?  

( Students formulate the tasks of the lesson)

T: Yes, you are quite tight. Today we are going to speak about the protection of the environment in monologues and dialogues, we’ll do projects,watch a film, listen to a text and do a test and some other tasks.

2. The phonetic drill                 

T: Let’s pronounce some words and phrases. Say after me, please!

 to worry about                             scientists

 environment                                 protection

 energy                                          nature

 waste                                            health

 the chemical industry                   radiation

 the Earth                                      to forecast

 pollution                                       earthquake

 litter                                              generations

 ecologists                                     disaster

3. Speaking

1) Warm-up

T: First, answer my questions!

1  What are people all over the world  worried about?

2. What do newspapers and magazines write about?

3. What kinds of waste are very dangerous?

4. Where does much of this dangerous waste go?

5. What can you say about fish and forest trees?

6. What can you say about transport’s influence on our nature and the health of the

     people?

7.  What about radiation in our country?

8. What do you know about the Chernobyl ecological disaster?

9. What about earthquakes?

10.  Is it possible to forecast the earthquakes?

11. The Earth is our home, isn’t it?

12. We must take care of it,  mustn’t we?

13. What does it mean?

14. Who is the importance of this task pointed out by?

15. Each of us must do everything possible to keep the land, air and water clean, mustn’t we?

16. What do you know about ecological problems in Moscow Region?

2) Discussing ecological problems in dialogues

T: Let’s discuss some environmental problems in pairs!

1. The problem of water pollution is being discussed by an American student and a Russian specialist from Moscow.

-I know that your city is situated on the Moskva  River. But I wonder if you have a problem of water pollution. How is this problem decided in your region?

-Moscow is one of the biggest industrial cities in Russia. We have got a lot of factories. Some of them are old and have no modern filtering systems. Our task is to protect nature. So we must reconstruct old factories in order to use modern filtering technique.

-You are on the right way.

2. The Baikal  problem is being discussed by an American student and a Russian Candidate of Biological Science.

-Last year I visited the Baikal Lake. It is considered to be the oldest and the cleanest lake on our planet. Visitors can look down through the water 20 metres deep and count stones on the bottom. It is interesting to know what measures have been taken in your country to protect the Baikal.

     -There have been a lot of discussions on the Baikal in our country. Some scientists said that the Baikal should  be preserved completely. Others wanted to use the water for economic purposes. And  in 1986 the government decided to make the Baikal into a natural and national park. It shows that our state takes great care of nature. We must leave our planet clean for our children.

-Quite agree with you.

3. A British schoolboy and a Russian schoolgirl are speaking about societies for protection of nature in their countries.

-Have  you got  any societies for protection of nature in your country?

-Yes, we have got the Voluntary All-Russia Society for Nature Protection. It helps the government on ecological problems. And  have you got such societies in Great Britain?  

-We have got Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, London Wildlife and others.

4. Watching a film
   Teacher: Now let’s watch the first film. After watching the film you should give  your associations.

Pupils: Beautiful forests, clean rivers, green grass, fresh air…

Teacher: Do you like it?

Now I’d like you to watch one more film and then give your associations again.

Pupils: Yes, we do.

Polluted rivers, cutting down the forests, a lot of litter…

Учащиеся просматривают два фото-ряда. Учитель может попросить учащихся записать фразы на листах бумаги и поместить их на доске в две колонки.

Teacher: Look at the screen again. Now you task is to finish the sentences.

1.We live in …….
2. We should keep our planet …..
3. We should fight against ….
4. If we want to help animals we should ….
5. If we want to help fish we shouldn’t ….
6. Our environment is …..
7. We mustn’t drop …..
8. People mustn’t cut down ….

5. Searching  the words

Find the words about nature and ecology in these directions:

T: The criteria of your marks are on the screen. Put down the marks to each other. Check up your work with the help of the screen.

nature        sun        “5”- 12 words

ecology                   rain        “4”- 10-11 words

sea                                water                                                                     “3”- 6-9 words

pollution                    sky        “2”-1-5 words

air                               lake

land                               wind  

6. Listening

T: And now you will listen to the text. Your task is to listen to it very attentively and try to understand everything. Then you’ll do the test.

T: Listen to the tape, please!

Text: “A Dolphin Asks For Help”

A ship was fishing near the Kuril Islands when the men saw a dolphin in the water. It was swimming towards their ship. The dolphin’s movements were strange. When it was nearer the men could see that there was an open wound on the dolphin’s body. It tried to jump on the ship, but it couldn’t. The fishermen took the dolphin on the ship. The ship’s doctor said that this animal needed operation. During the operation, which lasted for an hour and a half, the men threw sea water over the dolphin.

When the doctor had finished the operation, the men let the dolphin go back into the water. There were a lot of dolphins near the ship and they greeted it and swam round it as if they wanted to help it and to protect it.

Then they all swam near the ship for a long time. This was the way they thanked the ship’s doctor and the fishermen for the help they had given to one of them.

Test

“A Dolphin Asks For Help”

1. The dolphin’s movements were …

1. strange;
2. usual;
3. quick.

2. The men could see that …

1. the dolphin was very tired;
2. the dolphin was catching fish;
3. there was an open wound on the dolphin’s body.

3. The dolphin tried …

1. to swim away from the ship;
2. to jump on the ship;
3. to catch a big fish.

4. The ship’s doctor said that the animal needed …

1. operation;
2. rest;
3. sleep.

5. After the operation the men …

1. wanted the dolphin to stay on the ship;
2. let the dolphin go back into the water;
3. gave the dolphin some food.

T: Check up your answers with the help of the screen (1a; 2c; 3b; 4a; 5b) and put down your marks.

6. Project Work (Speaking)

T: Look at the pictures on the screen, please!^[1]

(Students are looking at the pictures on the screen in the presentation.)

T: Children like to spend their free time in the country-side. Look at the first picture, please, and think over what happens when the children break the rules, then answer the following questions on the screen:

• What must we do?
• What mustn’t we do?
• What can we reduce?
• What can we reuse?
• What can we recycle?

Now you will work in groups and make two projects. The groups will present the rules on keeping our environment clean. The first group will start their rules with the words “We must”, the second group will present their rules starting with the words “We  mustn’t”.

Students of the first group: While looking at the first picture we can see that:

• Litter is left.
• Dogs are not kept under control.
• Flowers are pulled out.
• Animals are frightened.
• Trees are painted.
• Birds are caught.
• Animals are hurt.
• The air is polluted.
• Fires are started.

             That’s why:

• We must keep the country tidy.
• We must respect the life and work of the country-side.
• We must keep the dogs under control.
• We must take litter home.
• We must water flowers and trees.
• We must grow flowers and trees.
• When we hike, we must leave the place clean.

Students of the second group speak:

• We mustn’t break trees.
• We mustn’t pick flowers in the forest or in the field.
• We mustn’t do any harm to our “lesser brothers”- animals.
• We mustn’t catch birds.
• We mustn’t throw waste paper and things into rivers, lakes or on the ground.
• We can reduce energy and water, we can reuse glass bottles and plastic containers, we can recycle newspapers, cardboard, cans and tins, paper, plastic containers and glass bottles.

7. Summarizing

T: Now, let’s summarize everything we have just spoken about our environment.

( One of the students speaks on the topic before the class, then the other students work in pairs.)

8. Home task

Write an essay about the ecological situation in our region.