Аукцион по английскому для 8 класса «The USA»

Date: 29.04.2014

Theme: The USA (Auction)

Form: 8

Aims of the lesson:

Educational aims: summing of the studied material on a subject of the USA

Generalization of a regional geographic material

Developing aims: to develop the skills of speaking, writing and listening on theme.

Bringing up: to bring up the students to make conversation and help each other.

Method of the lesson: games technology, group work.

Type of the lesson: auction lesson.

Equipment: map of the USA, slides "pounds", cube and hammer.

Procedure of the lesson

1. Organization moment

2. Checking up the home task

Let's check up your home task. It was to make up a project work on famous people of the USA

3. Auction

We shall play the game "Auction" today. There to teams in our classroom and we have three members of our jury today.

Now listen to the rules of our auction. It consists of 4 stages; each of them includes some questions. These questions deal with the United States of America. Let's choose the first theme. This cube will help us to do it.

If you bought the question you'll bought the right to answer it. But if your answer is wrong. The other team could give its variant.

"Geography"

1. The capital of the USA is… (Washington D.C.)

2. The USA consists of … states. (50)

3. How many states were there by the 18^th century? (13)

4. The Ocean which the USA is washed by on the West is … (Pacific Ocean)

5. The Ocean which the USA is washed by on the East is … (Atlantic Ocean)

6. On the North the USA borders on … (Canada)

7. On the South the USA borders on … (Mexico)

8. The biggest state of the USA is ... (Texas)

9. Name the states in this map (Maryland, Virginia)

"The capital of the USA"

1. Washington D.C. is situated in... (Columbia)

2. What is the population of Washington? (11 million people)

3. Who chose the place for the capital? (George Washington)

4. Washington is situated between these two states... (Maryland. Virginia)

5. In whose honour is the District of Columbia named? (George Washington)

"Places to visit"

1. What building is the symbol of the USA? (The Statue of Liberty)

2. In what state is Hollywood situated? (in California)

3. The official residence of the American President is... (White House)

4. The biggest cities of the USA… (Texas, Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia)

"Others"

1. What is the name of this mount? (Mount Rushmore)

2. Who is this? (George Washington)

3. What was Mark Twain's real name? (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)

4. When do Americans celebrate Independence Day? (4 July)

5. Who is the 43 ^rd President of the USA? (George Bush)

4. Evaluation

Your marks for today are …

5. Home task

Your home task will be to make a crossword

6. The end of the lesson

The lesson is over good bye.