The great kazkh poet Abai Kunanbayev

The plan of the lesson

Grade: 8

The theme: Abai, a great Kazakh poet.

The aims: 1. Educational: To speak about the most outstanding poet Abai Kunanbayev, his life, his social life and about his family. To practice pupils in monological and dialogical speech, to teach pupils work creatively and introduce new words, expressions according to the theme.

2. To enrich the pupils knowledge with new words, to improve pronunciation and to develop oral speech.

3. To bring up pupils interests in to widen their scope, to help them to love and respect foreign languages, to teach the pupils to share their opinions.

The methods of teaching: visual, practical, explanation.

Inter subject connection: Kazakh literature, Russian, Arts and geography

Visual aids: a text-book, an interactive board, cards and etc… .

The type of the lesson: mixed.

The procedure of the lesson

1. Organization moment

1. Greeting

2. Checking

2. Checking up the home task

Let's check your home task. Are you ready?

3. Warming up

All of you look at the blackboard. What do you see?

Who is he? Why do we proud if this poet?

Pupil I: Abai was, is and shall be a great Kazakh poet of all Kazakh people.

Pupil II: He is not only poet he is musician and writer.

Pupil III: He was born in Abai settlement near the city of Semei.

Pupil IV: His father Kunanbai and his mother Ulzhan and his very kind grandmother Zere.

4. Presentation

Look at the board first of all let's introduce with today's our new words and their meanings.

1. World-әлем

The sun is the centre of the world. English is the world language. My home is the entire world for me.

2. Settlement-ауыл

3. Masterpiece-шедевр

A work done with extraordinary skill.

4. Strict-қатал

He is quiet strict trainer but we all like him.

5. Explanation the new material.

Biography

Abai Kunanbaev (1845-1904). Abay was born in 1845 at the bottom of the Chingiz Mountain in the today's Abai district (former Karkaraly) located in Eastern Kazakhstan region (formerly, the Semipalatinsk region).
He was a well-known Kazakh poet, a great thinker, composer, philosopher, the founder of written Kazakh literature, and its first classic.
The heritage he left his nation is rich in songs and poems, translations and prose. His translations of the poetry written by Russian writers and poets such as Pushkin, Lermontov, and Krylov became the national patrimony of Kazakhstan. He translated the works of Schiller, Goethe, and Byron into Kazakh language.
«Kara Sozder» [Book of Words] (prose) created by the great thinker constitute an ethnic philosophical work. This creation of his is an exploration of Kazakh national life in the second half of the 19th century. He influenced social affairs in the country where he lived.
He also participated in the governing of the country and played a certain role in trying to solve complicated problems justly.
The name of Abai is known worldwide just as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Pushkin are well-known in many countries, because his great words became a spiritual patrimony of not only one nation, but of the entire humankind.

6. Practice

Ex II. Reading and speaking.

Read the text about Abai and be ready to discuss it.

7. Consolidation of new material

1. What is Abai Kunanbayev famous for?

2. When and where was he born?

3. Who were his parents?

4. What poems written be Abai do you know?

5. What makes Abai so very much popular with people all over the world?

8. Conclusion lesson

Your home task: To retell the text.

Your marks. Good bye