Урок: Facebook & social networking

План - конспект урока

Facebook & social networking

Цели и задачи урока:

- поговорить с учениками о Facebook и других социальных сетях;

- развить навыки чтения текста и извлечения информации;

- развить навык составления вопросов;

- развить и усовершенствовать навык разговорной речи.

Класс: 9-11

Ход урока:

Описание:

Сколько друзей у вас в Facebook? Каков лимит друзей в Facebook?

Этот урок позволит ученикам взглянуть на тенденции развития современных социальных сетей. Также на этом уроке учащиеся создатут «чат-стену» для интерактивного общения друг с другом.

Организационный момент и целеполагание:

Write Facebook, Twitter on the board and ask students what they know about

these social networking websites. (They are the most popular international

social networking websites.) Do the students know any similar websites? Are

they on Facebook? Do they know any people who are famous for social networking?

Чтение текста и поиск информации в нем:

1. Read the text quickly. Why was Ivy Bean famous?

Research by a British anthropologist shows that the optimum number of friendships that the human brain can maintain is about 150. But that's in the real world. What happens on Facebook where the maximum number of 'friends' permitted is 5000? According to social networking statistics, the average Facebook user has 130 friends. Some people have a lot more. Ivy Bean from Bradford in the north of England became Facebook's oldest known user at the age of 102 in 2008. She quickly started making friends and became an online celebrity. When she maxed out her 5000 friend counton Facebook Ms. Bean joined the Twitter website and continued her social networking. At the time of her death in July 2010, she had 4,962 friends on Facebook and more than 56,000 followers (including the Prime Minister's wife) on Twitter. Ms. Bean's last tweet was July 6 2010. It read, "Going to have my lunch now will be back later.''

2. Read the text again and find these numbers. What do the numbers refer to?

150

the optimum number of friendship

130

2008

2010

5000

4962

56000

(Students could work in pairs to underline the numbers and say each one refers to. You may need to explain the difference between optimum and maximum.)

Answers task 2:

150 - the optimum number of friendships

130 - the average Facebook user has 130 'friends'

2008 - Ivy Bean joined Facebook

2010 -Ivy died in 2010

5000 - the maximum number of 'friends' permitted onFacebook

4962 - Ivy had 4,962 friends on Facebook

56000 - Ivy had 56000 followers on Twitter

3. «Регистрация в соцсети» - работа с лексикой

- Tell the students to imagine that they want to join an imaginary social

networking website called FriendPage. Display task 3 in the classroom (or

copy it onto the board) and do an example profile as class. Elicit or feed in

useful language e.g.,

interested in: sports, languages, travel, music, films, computers

personality: sporty, artistic, unconventional, chatty, quiet, studious, musical

right now I feel: relaxed, stressed, tired, bored, energetic

- Hand out the task 3profiles and ask student to use their imagination to

complete the profile. Set a time limit to keep things snappy.

- Collect in the completed forms then redistribute them so that each student now

has a different profile.

3. Imagine you want to join FriendPage. Fill in your profile

FriendPage profile. Basic information:

name

age

gender

location

hometown

Interested in

personality

right now I feel

4. Повторение ранее изученной грамматики: must / mustn't

- Tell the students that they are going to use theirprofile information in a moment

but first they need to look at the FriendPage houserules in task

- Ask students to complete the rules in pairs.

4. Complete the FriendPage house rules with must/mustn't:

1

You ________ write in English.

2

You ________ be rude or nasty.

3

You ________ be boring.

4

You ________ be under 18.

Answers task 4: 1 must, 2 mustn't, 3 mustn't, must

5. '' Чат - стена'' составление вопросов - ответов

- Display or hand out task 5 and tell students that they have to listen carefully

and follow your instructions. They shouldn't write anything yet. This task works

like a game of 'consequences' and mimics a Facebookwall.

- Ask students to complete part 1 of task 5. They should introduce themselves

using the information from the FriendPage profile (task 3). Demonstrate with an

example on the board if necessary, e.g., Hi I'm Liz. I'm 15 and I'm a girl. I live

in Stavropol but my hometown is……

- When everyone has completed their introduction, ask students to fold over the

paper on the dotted line and then write a question next to '2 Write a question:'

- Now everyone passes their paper to the person on their left. If students can sit

in a circle that's great. If not - set up a figure of 8 passing system.

- Students write a reply next to '3 Answer the question:' and again fold the paper.

They now write another (different) question. Next to '4 Write a question:'

- Everyone passes their paper to the person on their left.

- Continue like this until finished. Students can now unfold their paper and read

what's on their 'wall'. You could display the 'walls' in the classroom for everyone

to read.

- To follow up - collect some common errors from students' questions and

answers for a class correction activity. Write up extracts containing errors on

the board and have students correct them in pairs.

-Help a weaker class with task 5 by writing up some topics on the board

and eliciting questions that students could ask each other about these topics.

For example:

Mobile phones Do you like…?

Sport What's your favourite….?

School Where do you….?

Friends Where did you….?

TV When do you…..?

Games Have you ever….?

The future Would you like to…..?

Family Are you…….?

5. Чат-стена Facebook

1. Introduce yourself.

Hi, I'm…

2. ask

3. answer

4. ask

5. answer

6. ask

7. answer

8. comment

9. ask

10. answer

11. comment