Урок: Mobile phones and text communications

Муниципальное казённое общеобразовательное учреждение

«Средняя общеобразовательная школа №11»

План-конспект урока

«Mobile phones and text communications»

Подготовил и провел

учитель английского языка

Зенин Николай Николаевич

с.Красногвардейское

Цели и задачи урока:

- развивать у учеником компетенции телефонного разговора и написания текстовых сообщений;

- практиковать разговорную речь.

Класс: 9-11

Ход урока

Описание урока

Этот урок должен предоставить возможность ученикам показать как и зачем они используют мобильные телефоны. Они придумают и разыграют телефонный разговор; узнают о сокращениях и абревиатурах, принятых у их сверстников в англоязычных странах в текстовых сообщениях; напишут и отправят свои собственные.

Урок завершится разговором о важности мобильных телефонов в современном мире и о том, как смс-общение заменяет живое.

Организационный момент и целеполагание:

Begin the lesson by asking everyone to turn their mobile phones off. See how many people reach for their phones to get a general idea of how many people in your class have one. For those who don't move ask if their phone is already off and they'll tell you if they have one or not.

Questions to get them interested.

1. Do you have a mobile phone?

2. If not, would you like to have one?

3. What do you think when you hear a mobile phone ring - in class? / In the street?

1. «Зачем нам телефон» заполнение таблиц, знакомство с лексикой

Hand out a copy of Worksheet A. As a class discuss the different uses of mobile phones and see if your students can think of any other reasons why people use their mobile phones.

Distribute a copy of the grid per person. Check that they all understand the meaning of the reasons in the grid before they fill it in.

Make sure they fill in the empty boxes in the second row first.

Reasons people use phones

Reasons you use your mobile phone

Conversation or

text message

To let their people know

where they are

To flirt with someone

As a clock

To play games

Just to say hello

To arrange to meet friends

To find out about the cinema

or football results

Some more reasons

2.Составление диалогов

Сut up the dialogue and put into an envelope. This dialogue is to give the students a model conversation from which to work from and create their own telephone conversations. They should first try to put the conversation into the correct order and try to understand the gist of the conversation to do so. Make sure they check and correct the sequence before looking at the meaning of the conversation in more detail. The questions can be answered in their pairs. You may have to explain some expressions, which you could do with synonyms.

"Hello"

"Hi Sophie, it's Justin."

"Hi. How are you?"

"Fine thanks. Listen I haven't got long because I've got a maths class in a

minute. I just wanted to see if you are still coming tonight."

"I'm not sure. I think my mum wants me to stay in tonight.

We're going to my aunt's house tomorrow and we have to leave really

early."

"Why, where does she live?"

"Miles away!"

"Well, what about if you came early and then my dad could give you a lift

home at about ten. Most people are coming around seven anyway and it

would be cool if you came."

"Ok well, let me speak to my mum and I'll text you later."

"Ok, cool."

"See you later."

"Yeah, bye."

3.Ролевая игра - телефонный разговор

For telephone conversations sit everyone back to back so that they don't have the advantage of seeing the person they're talking to and so better recreate speaking on the telephone.

Number the students A and B and distribute the following situations randomly, one for each pair. This can be done as an improvisation or they can write a draft of the conversation first.

For lower levels especially they will get more out of this activity if they spend time before the conversation itself at least thinking about the content.

Мonitor the conversations, helping in the preparation stages but let them speak spontaneously when actually doing the role-play. Give the students time afterwards to reflect on the conversation they had and the difficulties they came across when speaking.

You phone your best friend the morning of his/her birthday

Phone your parents to ask them if you can be late for dinner to stay for an extra

drama class after school.

Tell your friend that you're going to be late meeting them

Phone your friend to find out where they are. You've been waiting for them in a

café for twenty minutes.

4.Написание СМСок

To begin with just show the extracts below (Worksheet D) taken from text messages and ask students to try and work out what they mean. They must then match the text messages to the 'English'.

Then as a whole class brainstorm text messages in the first language of the students. Get a volunteer student to write on the board all ideas from his peers. The idea here is that the students can make a direct comparison with texting in their own country and so it will become even more obvious how this subject is relevant to their own lives.

You may find that different people use different 'codes' for texting. This will merely enhance the debate and they can argue why their version works best.

Each time they work out what the message is they should translate it into English and then see how they would text the word differently in English.

GR8 Great

C u l8r See you later

BBFN Bye bye for now

KIT Keep in touch

THNQ Thank you

5.Дискуссия

Try to sit everyone in a circle for this discussion. Рut the questions onto separate pieces of paper and the students take it in turn to pick a piece of paper and ask the question to the others. This way each student can be in charge of leading the discussion.

Make it clear from the start that you are going to listen rather than lead the discussion.

• How has texting changed the way you communicate with your friends?

• If you don't have a mobile phone do you think you communicate better with your friends and family?

• Texting is said to be more of a teenage pastime rather than an adult one. Why do you think this is?

• Some English teachers are worried that texting will make young people poor at spelling and grammar. Do you agree? Why / Why not?

• If you don't like using your mobile phone for texting why not?

• Some teenagers find they can't live without their mobile phone. Do you think this is excessive or can you understand why?

• What are the advantages of texting over making a telephone call?