Методическая разработка урока английского языка в 7 классе по теме Животные в нашей жизни

Урок английского языка в 7 классе на тему

«Животные в нашей жизни»

Цель урока: формирование самостоятельной познавательной деятельности учащихся

Задачи урока:

1. Учебные: Формировать лексические навыки, совершенствовать навыки аудирования, устной монологической и диалогической речи

2. Развивающие: развивать интерактивные и исследовательские навыки, развивать умение работать в группе

3. Воспитательные: формировать уважительное и ответственное отношение к природе.

Оснащение урока:

Наглядный материал: интерактивная доска, видеосюжеты об исчезающих животных, постер, аудиозапись голосов животных, фотоколлаж.
Раздаточный материал: тексты о животных и информационные карты, текст о пингвинах, карточки с названиями частей тела.

Тип урока: комбинированный, обобщение знаний по теме

Procedure of the lesson:

I. Preliminaries. Aims.

Good morning, pupils and our highly respected guests. The theme of our lesson is «Animals in our life». We live in a world that is full of the beauty of nature. Animals are the part of that natural world. People often treated animals more like things than living, feeling beings. We'll learn that animals are more complex, we'll learn some interesting facts about animals. You'll present your projects. And by the end of the lesson you will be able to

• get main ideas and details of necessary information

• to exchange ideas and compare animals.

II. Brainstorming.

Look at this poster. What animals can you see? How do you understand these words «Everyone matters»?

III. Recollection of lexis.

To make our lesson successful let's revise lexis on the theme. Let's play animals' category game. Look at the active board.

What categories of animals do you know?
What species of animals do you know?

Come up to the active board and write in the words.

a) Complete the diagram with species of animals.
b) You know that animals have different parts of body. Let us see if you know them. Stick the label with the name to the suitable part of the animal's body;
c) You know animals differ in their habitats and characteristics. Divide the words into three groups: habitats, characteristics and words to mean actions: jungle, wild, forest, protect, ocean, rare, hunt, river, extinct, fast, save, b, desert, endangered.

Very good! I see you know the words well.

IV. Listening (active board is used).

Do you understand English well? Listen to the computer test (EuroTalk interactive World Talk English) and try to choose the animal due its characteristics. You are good at listening, children.

V. Reading practice. Making up dialogues.

Let's speak about this wonderful animal. What animal is it? Where does it live? Read the text about penguins and make up your dialogues.

There are eighteen different kinds of penguins, and they all live south of the equator. The largest are the emperor penguins, which live in Antarctica. The smallest penguin is the fairy penguin, or little blue. Penguins eat fish and krill. (Krill are small animals that swim in cold waters.)

They lay their eggs about fifty miles from the coast. There the penguins have nothing to make a nest out of, but the eggs cannot be laid directly on the ice, or they would freeze. The emperor penguins have to take care of their eggs in a special way.

The female produces one egg. As soon as she lays her egg, the male penguin rolls it on top of his feet. A special fold of skin on the bottom of his stomach comes down over the egg to protect it from the cold. For two months the male penguins stand together to protect themselves from the cold with their eggs on their feet. They cannot move or eat.

The female goes to find food as soon as she lays her egg. Finally, after two months she returns and takes the egg from the male. The male penguin, which now has had no food for two months, returns to the sea.

After the egg is hatched, the female and the male take turns carrying the baby penguin on their feet. When the weather gets cold, the baby is covered by the fold of skin, which keeps it warm.

- Where…………………………………….live?
- …………………………………………………..
- Where………………………..lay eggs?
- ………………………………………`…………………………………….
- What ………………………………………………use to protect the egg from the cold?
- ………………………………………………………………….
- How long…………………………stand together?
- …………………………………………………………………………………..
- Where…………………………………….put their eggs when they stand together?
- ………………………………………………………………………………..
- How ……………………………………………………….protect their……………, when the weather gets cold?
- ……………………………………………………………………………………….

Let us listen to your dialogues. What interesting facts about penguins have you leant from the text?

VI. Mini-research work.

Now you will have a mini-research work. Each group has a text about an animal and an info chart.

a) Read the text and find out what animal is described and fill in the required information into the charts.
b) Report your research findings to the other groups.
c) While listening try to complete the chart with necessary information.
d) Look attentively and compare animals. What do they have in common? In what ways are they alike?

VII. Relaxation.

Children, you have worked much. Let's have a rest. Imagine that you are in the jungle. Listen to the animals voices and enjoy yourselves.

VIII. Presentation of projects.

1) «The most popular pets» (the first group)

Reports

P1: We want to tell you about our young brothers, I mean pets. The first pet was grey goose. It happened 10000 years ago. Do you know that Americans have more cats as pets than any other animal? Americans have more than 77 million pet cats. They have about 65 million pet dogs. Cat lovers think cats are graceful and fun to watch. Some cats are comical and playful and some are serious and independent.

P2: Lots of animals have jobs:

• the police use horses to control large crowds;

• dogs help blind people;

• cats are used in advertisements;

• etc.

P3: Martin Old from Manchester has a very strange pet. He has a two-year- old South American red-kneed tarantula called Tammy.

Crossword (active board is used).

Species

Total number

Number of animals included into the Red Book

Mammals

178

40

Reptiles

52

10

Birds

503

56

Fish

180

16

40 out of 178 mammals are included into the Red Book, etc. Video episodes about endangered animals are demonstrated.

IX. Creative activity.

a) Think about some ideas for «A Fairer World for Animals». Work in groups.
b) Write them on the active board.

X. Reflection

So, our lesson is almost over. You've learnt so much about animals. Tell me please what facts about animals were the most interesting for you? What activity did you like best of all? You worked very hard. I am going to put you «fives» and «fours». Thank you for the lesson.

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Squirrel

Dolphin

Elephant

Habitat

Size

Characteristics

Food

Interesting facts

• Read the text and find out what animal is described.

• Fill in the appropriate boxes on the chart.

• Take turns, reporting your «research findings» to the class.

There are 29 species of this animal. It lives in the forests of Asia, Europe, North and South America. The length of its body is from 20 to 30 cm. Its weight is from 200 g to 1 kg. It has a long magnificent tail; its ears are decorated with tassels. This animal is fast and very beautiful, especially in winter. It is funny to watch when it easily jumps from tree to tree. They are active in summer. Some animals gather about 2000 mushrooms during one season. They eat berries, mushrooms, nuts, birds' eggs. We can see them in the city parks.

There are about 40 kinds of these animals. They live in seas and oceans, and even in rivers. Their weight varies from 25 to 450 kilos. These animals have stream-lined form of the body and very smooth skin. They can dive 300 meters deep. Playful and curious animals like to follow ships in the sea. They hunt at night. Their food is fish and krills. The animals are very intelligent. They can do many wonderful tricks: play basketball, take food from people's hands. There were cases when they saved people in seas.

It is a large b animal. Its weight is about 4 tons. Wild animals live in African and Indian jungles. Their tusks can be 3 meters long. They need a lot of water. After they have had enough to drink, they fill their trunks and spray their bodies. Leaving the water animals join small family groups resting under the trees. They rest only during the hottest part of the time. They have the biggest appetite. In fact they spend about 16 hours a day eating. Their diet consists of leaves, grass, and fruits. They are wonderful, intelligent animals. They can help people. On a cold night at the zoo they shut the door after they go into their house.

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