Books in our life ( Form 8)

Theme.	Books in our life.
Objectives.	Practical: to develop speaking, listening, to use topical words in conversation, to summarize and systematize pupils’ knowledge on the topic; to organize working in groups; Educational: to widen pupils’ outlook, to bring up pupils as hard-working persons, to encourage pupils to do presentations. Developing: to develop memory; to develop attention, quick reaction, interests.
Equipment.	A blackboard, pictures, a laptop, cards, portraits of poets.

Procedure

Preliminaries

T. Good morning, dear children!

Ps. Good morning, teacher!

T. I’m glad to see you.

Ps. We’re glad to see you too.

T. Let’s study English.

Ps. OK.

T. This language is very good.

Ps. Certainly it is.

T. Let's start. Dear pupils! Today we are going to speak about books. At the first part of our lesson we’ll talk about general information. Then we’ll pay attention to some of the famous poets. It’s difficult to appreciate the real value of books. They teach, educate, and entertain us. They are our friends. Books make a man’s personality.

Look at the blackboard and match the parts of these proverbs and sayings.

1. Choose an author…	a) … like book
2. Like author …	b) … as a good book
3. Don’t judge a book…	c) … as you choose a friend
4. There is no friend so faithful…	d) … by it’s cover

T. So, I would like to listen to your opinion about books.  What books do you like to read and why?

Ps.

It’s interesting for  me to read

fairy tales history books adventure stories fantasy verses detective stories love stories

they are easy for reading I like history they are interesting. It’s my cup of tea I also can write them I always know the killer I dream to have a great love

T. Use the words in the box to fill in the blanks. Answer the questions.

Best, read, was, writer, prefer, book,

1.  Do you ______________ stories or poems?

2. Where do you usually ___________ ?

3.  Who is your favourite ____________?

4. What’s the ________ book you ‘ve ever read?

5. What  _____ one of your favourite book as a child?

6. What’s your favourite _______ ?

T. Microphone. One of you is a journalist. This pupil asks questions from exercise 5 on page 65. You may answer these questions with the help of the exercise.

P. 

- Why do you read?

- What kind of books do you like to read?

- Where do you get books from?

T. Look at the blackboard. You can see a lot of words. Make up sentences with these words.

- To my mind, the habit of reading is a great thing. - There are books of all kinds. - Books are necessary for me. - I never travel very far without taking a book with me. - There are volumes of verses, plays, biographies, short stories and novels. - Francis Bacon wrote, "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and  digested". - You don't watch the time when you are reading adventure stories. - I am fond of detective stories. - Classical novels are usually read slowly and carefully. - Reading books broadens our outlook. T.  Let’s revise Passive Voice. Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action. Form of Passive: Subject + finite form of to be + Past Participle (3rd column of irregular verbs). Work in the copy-books. T. Give definitions to the following words. - adventure story - science fiction - drama - mystery  -   humorous story -  biography 1. An exciting story about a hero who goes on an unusual journey and does new and dangerous things. 2. A story about events that take place in the future or in space and it usually describes strange creatures and robots. 3. A  serious and emotional play, written for the theatre, television or radio. 4. A  story about a crime or a strange event that is difficult to explain. 5. A funny story with a happy ending. 6. A story of a person's life written by another person. Physical exercises T.  Nobody argues about great importance of books. Since ancient times people read them and of course wrote. Books would not have appeared if writers had written them. It’s very difficult and long work to write a book. Only talented people are able to do it. Now I’d like you to talk about writers. Let’s start with our Ukrainian prominent man Taras Shevchenko. P. Tells about Shevchenko and shows presentation. A brilliant Ukrainian poet and artist Taras Gryhorovych Shevchenko (March 9, 1814 - March 10, 1861) was born in the village of Moryntsi in the family of serfs. He lost his mother at the age of nine. Though his father was a shepherd, he could read and write and it was possible for him to teach his children. Taras's childhood was very hard. When Taras was eleven, his father died. So, the boy was orphaned and grew up in     poverty  and   misery. The boy had a special talent for drawing. At the age of 14 he became a servant ("a houseboy") in the house of his owner, P. Engelhardt. P. Engelhardt noticed Shevchenko's artistic talent and apprenticed        him to the painter V.V. Shyriayev for 4 years. At that time he met the Russian painter K. Bryulov. K. Bryulov painted the portrait of the Russian poet V. Zhukovsky and sold it for 2500 roubles. The money was used to buy Shevchenko's freedom from P. Engelhardt in 1838. Shevchenko was admitted to St. Petersburgh Academy of Arts where he studied under K. Bryulov. T. Shevchenko's  literary activity began in 1838. In 1840 he published his first collection of poems "Kobzar". Taras Shevchenko has an important place in the Ukrainian history. He was the founder of the new Ukrainian literature. He established Ukrainian as the national literary language. It's interesting to know that there is a monument to T. Shevchenko in the USA, in Washington D.C.

T.  Let’s recite poems of this great personality.

P.

When I die, pray, bury me

In my beloved Ukraine,

My tomb upon a grave mound high

Amid the spreading plain,

So that the fields, the boundless steppes,

The Dnieper's plunging shore

My eyes might see, and my ears hear

The mighty river roar.

When from Ukraine the Dnieper bears

Into the deep blue sea

The blood of foes... then will I leave

These hills and fertile fields —

I'll leave them all and fly away

To the abode of God,

And then I'll pray... But till that day

I nothing know of God.

Oh bury me, then rise ye up

And break your heavy chains

And water with the tyrants' blood

The freedom you have gained.

And in the great new family,

The family of the free,

With softly spoken, kindly word

Pray, men, remember me.

T.  As we study English it’s an obvious thing to recollect some English prominent literary people. For example, Robert Burns. We enjoy his poems. Let’s listen to about this man.

P. Tells about  Robert Burns and shows presentation.

Robert Burns

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796) is the Scotland's favourite son. He was a poet and a lyricist. Nowadays his birthday, the 25^th of January, is celebrated as a national holiday in Scotland.

The poet was born in Ayre, and was the eldest of the seven children in a family. He had little regular schooling, and got much of his education from his father, who taught his children reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, and history, and also wrote for them A Manual of Christian Belief.

Robert had a very difficult life. By the age of fifteen Robert Burns was the main helper to his father on a farm. That was the time when he started writing his poems. He had a chance to study only when the harvesting season was over.

Robert Burns is regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic Movement in literature. As well as making original compositions. Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland. He often revised  or adopted them. His poem (and song) Auld Lang Syne is often sung at Hogmanay (New Year). Some other poems and songs by R. Burns that remain well-known across the world today, include A Red, Red Rose, A Man's A Man for A^’ That, My Heart's in the Highlands.

T.  Let’s recite poems of this great personality.

P.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer -

A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North,

The birth place of Valour, the country of Worth;

Wherever I wander, wherever I rove,

The hills of the Highlands for ever I love.

Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow;

Farewell to the straths and green valleys below;

Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods;

Farwell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods.

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here,

My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer

Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe;

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

T.  Lewis Carroll was the pen-name of Charles Dodgson, the man who wrote a famous book for children "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". He was born in 1832 in England. When Charles finished school, he became a student at Oxford University, where he studied mathematics. In a few years he began to teach this subject at the university. The book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" he wrote for his friend's daughter Alice Liddell. Now please tell us more about this man.

P.

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there” – one of the famous Lewes Carroll’s quotes. He has been always interesting to all readers and researchers. Pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson English logician, mathematician, photographer, and novelist, especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland  and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass. There is no answer to the mystery of Alice's success. Many explanations have been suggested, but, like the Mad Hatter's riddle (“The riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all”), they are no more than afterthoughts. The book is not an allegory; it has no hidden meaning or message, either religious, political, or psychological, as some have tried to prove; and its only undertones are some touches of gentle satire—on education for the children's special benefit and on familiar university types, whom the Liddells may or may not have recognized.

Carroll's classic fantasy can be read on many levels and appreciated by diverse audiences: it is at once a biting social and political satire sufficiently complex to satisfy the most sophisticated adult, and a delightfully whimsical fairytale to capture the fancy of the imaginative child.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is a work of children's literature which is generally acclaimed as Dodgson's masterpiece. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into Wonderland, a fantasy realm populated by talking playing cards, anthropomorphic creatures, and other fantastical beings.

The tale is fraught with satirical allusions to Dodgson's friends and to life in the United Kingdom during the mid nineteenth century in general. The Wonderland described in the story is a place where logic and rules and reality are turned upside-down in ways that have made the story enduringly popular with adults, as well as children.

T.  Let’s train your memory.

T.  Modern books may be as well as traditional, usual for us and of course some of them astonish and get funny. All of us know fairy tales. Let’s watch movie of such a tale.

And now let’s do multiply choice.

1. The title of the book is

a) The hen song

b) The duck song

c) The goose song

2. ________________ asks to tell the story

a) a man

b) a boy

c) a girl

3. A duck walked up to a _________________ stand.

a) lemonade

b) juice

c) coca-cola

4. A duck asked: “Hey! Got any ___________________”

a) apples

b) grapes

c) peaches

5. Then he ________________ away.

a) went

b) ran

c) waddled

6. The man wanted _________________ a duck.

a) to beat

b) to glue

c) to punish

7. The man took the duck to the _____________________.

a) store

b) market

c) supermarket

8. He gave grapes to the duck and the duck said_________________

a) Thank you

b) Thank you very much

c) No, thanks.

9. A new duck’s question sounds: “Do you think this store has any___________?”

a) coffee

b) lemonade

c) grapes

T.  Let’s do the following exercises.

T. You’ve worked very well. You’ve got such marks for your work at the lesson. During the lesson you’ve trained your listening, speaking, writing and reading. We revised a lot of information, did exercises, listened to reports and made up sentences. The lesson is over. Good bye.