Конспект урока английского языка в 9 классе по теме:

William Shakespeare - famous English writer.

Учитель ГОУ СОШ №301 г.Санкт-Петербурга - Куденцова Ирина Владимировна

Цели урока: Активизировать познавательную деятельность учащихся.

Развитие интереса учащихся к культурному наследию Великобритании.

Изучение творчества У. Шекспира.

Повышение интереса учащихся к изучению английского языка.

Развитие навыков и умений говорения.

Развитие способности и готовности общения на английском языке.

Закрепить лексический материал по теме “Вильям Шекспир”.

Создание благоприятного эмоционально-психологического климата

на уроке.

Задачи:

Учебные - обобщение и систематизация изученного лексического и грамматического материала; учить учащихся правильному употреблению речевых образцов в речи и самостоятельной работе с фонетическим материалом; изучение пословиц, ‘крылатых фраз’ и идиоматических выражений; продолжить работу над словообразованием однокоренных слов.

Развивающие - интеллектуальное развитие учащихся; развитие языковых, интеллектуальных и познавательных способностей; знакомство с культурным наследием и традициями Англии; готовность к коммуникации.

Воспитательные - формирование у учащихся уважения и интереса к культуре и народу страны изучаемого языка; воспитание культуры общения; воспитание и формирование потребности в познавательной активности.

ХОД УРОКА:

Good morning. I am glad to see you. How are you today?

(Good morning. Fine, thank you.)

Today we’ll speak about a famous English writer – William Shakespeare. Certainly, all of you know this name and some of his books, but I think that you don’t know much about his life and his theatre. So we’ll see a presentation which was made by one of the pupils of our school last year. And it will help us to know more about the greatest English playwright. After the seeing you will be asked to do some exercises. Be attentive, you may write down some information in your exercise-books.

( слайд 1 – 8) (Pupils read the presentation and learn some facts from W.Shakespeare’s life.)

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616),

Shakespeare is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of all times. The last half of the 16^th and the beginning of the 17^th centuries are known as the golden age of English literature. Sometimes it is called “the age of Shakespeare”.

William Shakespeare was born on the 23rd of April 1564, in Stratford-on-Avon. At the age of 6 he was sent to school, but had to leave it at the age of 13 and never went to school again. His father who couldn’t even write was a glove-maker. William helped him in his trade.
At the age of 18, he married Anne Hatheway. Ann was 8 years older than her husband and their marriage wasn’t happy. They had 3 children.

At that time actors and actresses visited Stratford-on-Avon. William liked to watch them. He was fond of their profession and he decided to become an actor. When he was 21 he went to London. There he became an actor. He began to write plays too. He worked in the modern theatre “Globe”. 14 years later he became a part owner of the Globe theatre in London.

Globe_theatre_in London

The original Globe was opened in 1599, burned down in 1613 and immediately rebuilt. It was a round building with the stage in the centre, open to the sky. If it was raining, the actors got wet; if the weather was too bad, there was no performance at all. It was closed in 1642.

In 1997 after almost 400years Shakespeare’s Globe was opened again for public. Every summer it offers now performance of plays by Shakespeare.

The first task is very interesting. Guess whether it is true or false. (Teacher reads sentences. Pupils who give right answers get scores / pluses. )

1. W.Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564 and he died also this date, April23, 1616.(+)

2. His father, John Shakespeare, couldn’t write. (+)

3. His mother was a daughter of the farmer. (+)

4. W.Shakespeare married when he was 18 years old. (+)

5. W.Shakespeare had 3 children: a daughter and twin sons. (+)

6. In the 16^th century there were many theatres in Britain. (-)

7. Globe Theatre was situated on the bank of the River Thames. (+)

8. Nowadays Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre is opened all year round. (-)

9. When W.Shakespeare came to London his first job was holding rich man’s horses at the theatre door. (+)

10. He wrote 37 plays but only 18 were published in his lifetime. (+)

11. He made up the stories himself. (-)

The next exercise is about the famous Globe Theatre. Take cards#1 on your desks. Read the short text and fill in the words in the correct form: (3-5 min., teacher checks the works and pupils who give right answers get scores / pluses. )

Who read W.Shakespeare’s plays? What plays do you know? (Pupils answer the questions. )

Let’s return to our presentation and read some information about W.Shakespeare’s books.

( слайд 9 -10) –reading.

Shakespeare’s experience as an actor helped him greatly in the writing of his plays. His knowledge of stage and his poetical genius made his plays the most wonderful ones ever written.

Shakespeare wrote:

37 plays;

17 comedies,

10 historical plays

7 books of poems.

2 long poems and 154 sonnets.

Most of Shakespeare’s plays were not published in his lifetime. So some of them may have been lost in the fire when the “Globe” burned down in 1613.

It is interesting to note that almost all plots of Shakespeare’s plays were not original.

He took them from the works of other authors. At that time the audience was rather ignorant

and the playwrights tried to attract it to the world literature through their plays. Shakespeare took his plots from history, old legends, novels and poems; he also used Plutarch’s “Historical Portraits”. The plot of “Othello” and “Twelfth Night” was taken from Italian novels and those of “Hamlet” and “King Lear” - from early English authors. But every borrowed plot began to live a new life in his plays.

Shakespeare also wrote 2 long poems and 154 sonnets. They show his extraordinary powers of expression and his depth of emotional understanding.

( слайд 11 ) –read and translate.