Методическая разработка на тему: Australia - Австралия

Министерство образования и науки Самарской области

государственное бюджетное образовательное учреждение среднего профессионального образования

ТОЛЬЯТТИНСКИЙ МАШИНОСТРОИТЕЛЬНЫЙ КОЛЛЕДЖ

Методическая разработка по дисциплине «Английский язык»

на тему: «Австралия»

What do you know about Australia?

Тольятти 2014-2015 уч. год

«одобрено»

методической комиссией иностранного языка

Председатель

_________ А.А. Шашкина

_________________2014г.

«УТВЕРЖДАЮ»

Руководитель ОП

_________________А.Н. Мазаев

_______________________ 2014 г.

Составитель: ___________Шашкина А.А., преподаватель английского языка ГБОУ СПО ТМК

Методическая разработка открытого урока по теме «Австралия» разработана на основе Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта (далее - ФГОС) по специальности среднего профессионального образования (далее - СПО). Методическая разработка предназначена для проведения открытого урока в рамках декады по иностранному языку среди студентов I-ого курса.

ГБОУ СПО ТМК , 2014

Пояснительная записка

Методическая разработка открытого урока по теме «Австралия» разработана на основе Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта (далее - ФГОС) по специальности среднего профессионального образования (далее - СПО).

Методическая разработка предназначена для проведения открытого урока в рамках декады по иностранному языку среди студентов I-ого курса.

Цель разработки - познакомить студентов с географической, экономической и социальной спецификой Австралии. Основными задачами пособия являются:

1. Расширить словарный запас;

2. Сформировать представление об англоязычной стране;

3. Ознакомить студентов с основными достопримечательностями, историей и социальным аспектом жизни Австралии.

Разработка включает в себя тематический текст, вокабуляр, систему упражнений различного типа. В конце пособия имеется задание в виде викторины для самостоятельной работы, список используемой литературы, приложение1 содержит фото Австралии.

Материал разработки позволит студентам расширить свой кругозор и знания по страноведению, а также привить любовь не только к своей стране, но и к стране изучаемого языка.

Открытый урок по теме: «Австралия»

What do you know about Australia?

Pre-reading task:

• Write down everything that you know about Australia.

Exercise 1. Read and translate the text:

There are many names for Australia-Oz, Down Under, and the official name, the Commonwealth of Australia - but the name that the Australians like is «the Lucky Country». It probably didn't seem very lucky to the first European settlers. They were

convicts who had been transported from Britain. However, after gold was discovered in the 1850s, thousands of free settlers left the cold, dark industrial towns of Britain to find their place in the sun. Australia has a population of about sixteen and a half million people. In a country of over seven and a half million square kilometers - the sixth largest in the world - this is a very small population. At least three cities in the world have larger populations than the whole of Australia. Over half the population lives in the south-east corner of the country between the two state capitals of Sydney and Melbourne. Over eighty per cent of Australia's inhabitant's are of British origin and this can be seen in many aspects of Australian life. English is the national language, cricket is the national game, and they drive on the left. In recent years, however, most immigrants have come from other European countries such as Italy, Greece and Poland or from Asian countries. Only about one per cent of the inhabitants are Aborigines.

Australia is a huge country and has a wide range of climates from the tropical rain forest of the Northern Territory and northern Queensland to the mild temperate climate of Victoria and Tasmania in the south east. About two-thirds of the land is desert or semi-desert.

Although Sydney, with its beautiful harbour, bridge and opera house, is the largest city it isn't the capital. Australia is a federal state and, like the United States of America, it has a separate capital city - Canberra - which isn't in any of the states themselves. The Commonwealth of Australia consists of six states (Western Australia, Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and two territories (the Northern Territory and the Canberra Capital Territory). The Head of Government is the Prime Minister but the Head of State is still the British monarch.

Mining, industry and agriculture are Australia's most important sources of income. More recently, tourism has become important, too. Tourists come to enjoy Australia's warm climate, to see the unique animals, such as the kangaroo, the koala and the platypus, and to see beautiful natural features like the Great Barrier Reef and the mysterious Ayers Rock.

Vocabulary:

commonwealth -содружество

settler - поселенец

convict - осужденный

industrial towns - промышленные города

population - население

inhabitant - житель

huge - огромный

land - земля

desert - пустыня

harbor - гавань

federal state - федеральное государство

head of Government - глава правительства

head of State - глава государства

mining - горная промышленность

agriculture - сельское хозяйство

source of income - источник дохода

unique - уникальный

platypus - утконос

natural features - природные явления

Exercise 2. Copy and complete this table:

1. Official name ___________

2. Area __________________

3. Population _____________

4. Language _______________

5. Currency _______________

6. Largest city _____________

7. Capital city ________________

8. Political structure____________

9. Head of Government__________

10. Head of State ________________

11. Main sources of income _________

Exercise 3. Find these things in the text:

1. four things that show the British origins of the population

2. four types of climate that Australia has

3. three things that tourists might see in Sydney

4. three things that they might see outside Sydney

Exercise 4. Find these numbers in the text. What do they mean?

1/2 7.5 million 80% 2/3

Exercise 5. Copy and complete these sentences:

1. Over … Australia's inhabitants are of British origin.

2. About … the land is desert or semi desert.

3. Over … the population lives in the south-east corner.

Exercise 6. Discussion points:

• What do you think is the most interesting piece of information about Australia on these pages?

• Why do you think Australia is called 'the Lucky Country'?

Exercise 7. Look at the text and the picture again. What information do they give about these things? Write one or two sentences about each one:

1. The Flying Doctor

2. Canberra

3. Animals

4. Sydney

QUIZ

Answer the questions:

1. Is Australia situated on the tropical or equatorial latitude of the geographical line on the map?

2. Who were the first people in Australia? Where do the natives live there?

3. What is one of the natives' sacred places?

4. What does the flag of Australia look like? Why?

5. Why do people call this unusual continent an "upside-world"?

6. Where do Australian cold and hot winds blow from?

7. When was Australia discovered and by whom?

8. What is Australia's climate?

9. Name the animals unique to Australia?

10. What does the koala eat?

11. Did the aborigines keep any domestic animals?

12. What animal's name means 'I don't understand' in the aborigines' language?

13. When is it colder in Australia: in November or in December?

14. What is the only living thing on Earth which you can see from space?

15. How old is the Great Barrier Reef?

16. Is Australia washed by: a) the Atlantic and the Pacific; b) the Indian and the Pacific; c) the Pacific and the Arctic oceans?

17. Who first explored Australia: a) J. Cook; b) Tasman; c) Mickloukho-Maclay

18. What is the state language of Commonwealth of Australia?

19. What island did Tasman explore: a) New Guinea; b) Tasmania; c) New Zealand

20. Koalas eat...?

21. What international sports event took place in Australia aborigines' language?

22. Australia was a colony of which country?

23. Australia was discovered in the: a) 15th; b) 16th; c) 17th; d) 19th century

24. What is the biggest river in Australia?

25. You know that Australia is full of different plants. What's the main tree? a) acacia; b) palm tree; c) eucalyptus

26. There are a lot of: a) elephants; b) poisonous snakes; c) crocodiles; d) parrots

27. What is the nearest continent to Australia?

28. What animals can you see on the National Emblem of Australia?

29. What city solved the problem of the capital of the 5^th continent?

30. Make up as many words as you can out of the word: ABORIGINES.

Task for Teams:

• Draw a kangaroo and describe its way of life, what it eats, where it lives, how it looks.

• Draw a koala and describe its way of life, what it eats, where it lives, how it looks.

• Draw a shark and describe its way of life, what it eats, where it lives, how it looks.

• Draw a squid and describe its way of life, what it eats, where it lives, how it looks.

Answers: 1. tropical; 2. aborigines; in the deserts; 3. Ayers Rock; 4. Great Britain; colony; 5. It is in Southern Hemisphere; 6. cold - south; hot - north; 7. 1606; by the Dutch; 8. Dry; 9. kangaroo, emu, koala, dingo, echidna; 10. the leaves of eucalyptus; bamboo; 11. dingo; 12. kangaroo; 13. November; 14. The Great Barrier Reef; 15. 18 million years old; 16. The Indian and the Pacific; 17. Tasman; 18. English; 19. Tasmania; 20. the leaves of eucalyptus; bamboo; 21. Summer Olympic Games; 22. England; 23. 17th century; 24. Murray; 25. Eucalyptus; 26. Parrots; 27. Eurasia; 28. Emu and kangaroo; 29. Canberra

Список используемой литературы

1. New Hotline - Tom Hutchinson. Intermediate Student's book. Oxford University Press, p. 120, 2004

2. English Vocabulary in use - Michael McCarthy Felicity O'Dell. Elementary. Cambridge University Press, p. 168, 1999

3. Учебно-методический журнал Английский язык №9/ под редакцией А. Громушкина . - Ч.: ООО «Чистые пруды», 2011. - 47с.

4. macmillanenglish.com

5. developingteachers.com