Презентация и раздаточный материал для групповой работы к уроку "Buy Nothung Day" к учебнику Spotlight 8, Module 2 (Grammar in Use)
методическая разработка по английскому языку (8 класс) на тему

                                  Task for Geographers

Find out about Buy Nothing Day in different countries.

Use the links provided:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd

http://www.sostav.ru/news/2006/11/21/99/

Answer the questions:

1. Where does it take place?
2. When is it celebrated?
3. What do people try to do on this day?

Раздаточный материал №3

Rubric:

5 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     Grammar correctness (грамматическая правильность) of the presentation.

4 - Now you can answer  where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     There were some unimportant mistakes in the presentation.

3 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place  BUT you can’t answer what it is about!

     Grammar correctness of the presentation.

2 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     A LOT of grammar mistakes in the presentation!

1 – You have NO IDEA where, when the Day takes place and what it is about!

                                              Task for Historians

Раздаточный материал №2

1. Fill the branches of the prediction tree.
2. Watch the video. You may need the words:    (к видео)

Homeless – бездомный                                

Average American – средний американец

Annual income – годовой доход                                        

Unnecessary luxuries – излишние предметы роскоши

Adult – взрослый

Unable – не способен

Sophisticated – сложный

Obsolete cell phone – устаревший (вышедший из моды) мобильный

Throw away – выбросить

3. What do you feel having watched the video?

          4. Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct tense:

The Yearly International Buy Nothing Day

The end of November many countries worldwide experience the International Buy Nothing Day/No Shop Day. Buy Nothing Day … (be) a day of cheerful and critical protest against Western overconsumption, the unequal worldwide distribution of well-being and wealth, and the influence of advertising on our daily lives.

Enough is enough!

Gradually no one in the rich parts of the world can avoid the phenomenon of the International Buy Nothing Day. Every year this action day … (take) a wide variety of forms and brings home the human and environmental consequences of the consumer society to shoppers worldwide.
Advertising would have us believe that we become happy by having lots of things and, in addition, encourages people's dissatisfaction and greed.

Buy Nothing Day … (have) a prevailing theme of 'Enough is enough'. The consumption patterns in rich countries take much too large a portion of the Earth's riches and cause a disproportionate amount of environmental damage.

Human Development Report

Activists in the Netherlands, Great-Britain, Canada, Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Germany, Northern Ireland, Norway, Australia, Belgium, New-Zealand, Sweden and the US … (feel) supported by the findings of the UNDP's Human Development Reports, which appeared september 1998 and July 1999.

Eighty-six percent of the purchases for personal consumption . made by twenty percent of the world's population, according to these reports. During the Buy Nothing Day … (be) campaigns, the campaigners always used the figure of eighty percent. The Human Development Reports however show that the relation is actually more lopsided.

Worldwide Action Days

Buy Nothing Day is especially a day of protest by all of those who find that they have enough, and want to voice their opposition to the incessant trend towards 'always more.' Buy Nothing Day is particularly celebrated in countries that have a very high level of consumption.

The initiative for the Buy Nothing Day … (be) taken in 1992, in Canada, by Ted Dave, who … (work) in the advertising world. By doing this, he wanted to perform an act against the constant appeal to overconsume, which advertisements pour out on us. His motto was: Enough is enough! Since then the idea of the Buy Nothing Day … (be) adopted by increasingly more countries. This year there will be activities in at least thirteen countries.

Participate by not participating!

The easiest way to become involved in the Buy Nothing Day is: Stay at home! Give yourself and your wallet a day of rest by not shopping. Some countries have special posters to put in your windows.

Those who want to participate in this campaign in a more active way - and that is definitely much more fun - can contact the coordinating group in their own country.

The Media Foundation, a Canadian organization, … (make) a number of short promotional videos especially for TV broadcast.

Раздаточный материал №3

Rubric:

5 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     Grammar correctness (грамматическая правильность) of the presentation.

4 - Now you can answer  where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     There were some unimportant mistakes in the presentation.

3 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place  BUT you can’t answer what it is about!

     Grammar correctness of the presentation.

2 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     A LOT of grammar mistakes in the presentation!

1 – You have NO IDEA where, when the Day takes place and what it is about!

                                  Task for Mathematicians

Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. Typically celebrated the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the following day internationally, in 2011 the dates are November 25 and 26 respectively. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave.

Do the Tasks:

1. One bank bought some stocks (акции) of a plant (завод) and sold them in a year for 576?8 mln rubles. The bank got 3% profit (прибыль). How much did the bank spend on buying these stocks?

2. Reduce the fraction 6ab2

                                9bc2

Раздаточный материал №3

Rubric:

5 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     Grammar correctness (грамматическая правильность) of the presentation.

4 - Now you can answer  where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     There were some unimportant mistakes in the presentation.

3 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place  BUT you can’t answer what it is about!

     Grammar correctness of the presentation.

2 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     A LOT of grammar mistakes in the presentation!

1 – You have NO IDEA where, when the Day takes place and what it is about!

                                    Task for Social Workers

Read the texts on p.30 (Student’s book) carefully, underline all the verbs and define their tenses. Tell the class where, when the Day takes place and what it is about.

Раздаточный материал №2

Rubric:

5 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     Grammar correctness (грамматическая правильность) of the presentation.

4 - Now you can answer  where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     There were some unimportant mistakes in the presentation.

3 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place  BUT you can’t answer what it is about!

     Grammar correctness of the presentation.

2 - Now you can answer where, when the Day takes place and what it is about;

     A LOT of grammar mistakes in the presentation!

1 – You have NO IDEA where, when the Day takes place and what it is about!