Разработка урока "Alexander G.Bell" (к модулю 3 "Great Minds" УМК Spotlight 8)
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (8 класс)

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Разработка урока «Alexander Graham Bell» к модулю 3 «Great Minds»

 (УМК «Spotlight», 8 класс)

1. Warming up

A phone is a means of communication. How do people usually use it? How do you use your phone?

2. Vocabulary

Look at the Telephone Timeline. When was the first telephone created? Do you know who invented it?

Match the words on the left with the definitions on the right.

Ключи:

1g/2d/3b/4a/5c/6f/7e

Fill in the gaps

1. Alexander Graham Bell was a great__________.
2. Don't worry if you made a mistake. You'll have a chance to_______in the future.
3. In the summer, my favorite________ is air conditioning.
4. I______ this shop so I can open it whatever time I want to.
5. Don't touch that_______! The high voltage can kill you!
6. If you want to sell this as your product, you need to ask for the____________.
7. I sometimes think my dad is_________ because he likes to watch TV very loud.

Ключи:

1inventor/2improve/3device/4own/5wire/6patent/7deaf

3. Reading and listening

Think of three questions you would ask about Alexander Graham Bell. Read and see if you can answer.

Alexander Graham Bell was a very important scientist, engineer and inventor. He was born on March 3, 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and he died on August 2, 1922 at the age of 75.

Bell's mother and wife were both deaf, and this had a big effect on his work. Because of them, he started to think about the sounds he could hear and they could not.

Alexander had great hearing and became an excellent piano player at a young age. When he was 23, Bell and his parents moved to Canada, where he studied the human voice and worked with many schools for deaf people.

Bell experimented with sound, working with devices such as the `harmonic telegraph', which was used to send messages over a single wire. He worked very hard on sound technology with his assistant, an electrical designer called Thomas Watson.

On February 14, 1876, Bell and an American electrical engineer named Elisha Gray both asked for patents with the U.S. Patent Office. It is not clear who was first, but it was Bell who got the patent in the end. A few days later, he made his telephone work using some ideas similar to Gray's ideas. Bell's first words with the working telephone were spoken to his assistant: He said: "Mr Watson, come here. I want to see you."

He improved the design and by 1886 more than 150000 people owned telephones in the United States. The device was very successful, and it started a new era for long-distance communication.

Listen and mark the statements True, False or Not Stated

1. Alexander Graham Bell was an inventor and an engineer.

2. He was born in Great Britain.

3. Bell was an assistant to a famous designer Thomas Watson

4. In 1886 there were more than 200 000 telephones in the USA.

Ключи:

1T/2T/3W/4F

Listen again and answer the questions.

1. When was Alexander Graham Bell born?

2. Who had problems with hearing in Bell's family?

3. What instrument did Bell play?

4. Who did Bell work with?

5. What were Bell's first words on the telephone?

4.Speaking

Look at these pictures. What do you think are the good and bad sides of Alexander Graham Bell's invention? Work in pairs.

You can start your discussion with any of the sentences below:

We use phones to .../Phones are useful, because .../People can .../Phones can be bad, because .../                People often/sometimes .../ In my opinion/To my mind

Phrases that can help you:

Take photos/a street robbery/call for help/spend too much time on social media/ communicate very quickly/give phones to children/dangerous for the brain/eyes