Lesson №
The
theme of the lesson: New
Zealand. Climate.
Flora and fauna. Geographical position. Population.
The aim of the lesson:
Образовательный
компонент: формирование социокультурной
компетенции через использование страноведческой информации на английском языке
и познакомить учащихся с географическими особенностями Новой
Зеландии.
Развивающий компонент: совершенствование навыков перевода и чтения незнакомого
текста; развитие умений ознакомительного чтения.
Воспитательный
компонент: способствовать воспитанию у
учащихся уважительного отношения к истории и культуре другого народа.
Задачи
урока:
1.
Активизировать в речи учащихся лексику по теме.
2.
Практиковать в устной речи (монолог, диалоги – расспрос)
3.
Расширить знание учащихся о Новой Зеландии, ее географических
особенностях.
4.
Развивать УН извлекать из прочитанного текста необходимую информацию.
5.Воспитывать
интерес к культуре и истории страны изучаемого языка.
The type
of the lesson:
Combined
lesson
Methods
of the lesson:
showing, explaining, group work, individual work, question-answer.
The visual aids: lecture, table, pictures, interactive board.
Connection
of the subjects:
History, Russian, Geography, Biology.
Procedure of the lesson
I.
Organization moment. Brainstorming: Good morning? Glad to see you! How are
you? What date is it? Who is absent today? What problem has he (she)? Are you
ready for the lesson? Let’s start!
II. Warming up.
a) Speech drill. Microphone
T: So students it's quite clear that the theme of our lesson is New Zealand. Please, imagine that this is a microphone and try to give
answers to my questions. You can answer if you have a microphone, you can’t
answer without it.
Ø What interesting facts
do you know about New Zealand?
Ø Do you know any exotic
animal in New Zealand?
Ø Have you ever been to New Zealand?
Ø Would you like to go to
New Zealand some day?
b) Phonetic drill. T: Pupils, look at the
blackboard and repeat the following words after me. We will need these words at
our lesson today.
The
Geographical names: New Zealand, Tasmania, North and South Islands and
Steward Island, volcanoes Egmont and Tongariro ,
Auckland, Christchurch,Wellington, Maoris,
Polynesian, aborigines, the Commonwealth, the Indian
ocean, the Pacific ocean,
Waikato ,the Wairu, Southern Alps, Mount Cook ,the kiwi.
III. Checking up the hometask. The
make a report by internet.
IV. Main Part. Этап усвоения новых знаний (Purpose: become familiar with
some information about another part of the English-speaking world)
T:Let’s watch the presentation and
listen to the information about this unusual country. After that you will have
to do some tasks. Today we’ll continue to discuss the main aspects
of geographical
position, population of New Zealand.
Ученики
смотрят презентацию, слушают учителя, задают возникающие вопросы.
V. Read the text: New
Zealand
Vocabulary:
Auckland [כ'
: klәnd]-Окленд
Maori[‘mauri]-маори Dunedin [d٨ ‘ni:dn]-Данидин
Christchurch [' kraist
tς ә:tς]- Крайстчётч
Polynesian [,pכ li’ni:zjәn]-
полинизийский
What is the name of the country which has volcanoes
and rivers of ice, deer and sea-elephants? It is New Zealand, called the Land
of the Long White Cloud by the Maoris. New Zealand, an independent state and a
member of the Commonwealth, is situated south-east of Australia in the Pacific
Ocean. New Zealand is an island country. It is made up of three islands: the North
and South Islands and Steward Island, a small land mass just to
the south of the South Island. North Island is where you find the Maoris, the
fine people who lived in these islands hundreds of years before the white man
came. Most of its people live in North Island, and that is where you find big
volcanoes like Egmont and Tongariro and the boiling pools and
geysers and lakes of bubbling mud. Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington
are the biggest cities. Wellington is the capital. It is a financial centre
too. The population of New Zealand is over three million people, more than two
thirds of whom live in North Island. The Maori people make up eight per cent of
the total population. The official language is English.
The Maoris, a Polynesian people, are the
aborigines of New Zealand. After long stays in Indonesia and the South Pacific,
which they explored for many years, they made their great journey to New
Zealand about the middle of the 14th century. They sailed in double canoes open
to all weathers. They knew the winds, the ocean currents and the stars, and
this earned them the name of Vikings of the Sunrise. The Maoris are famous for
their folk-songs, music and dances; they are very skilled in wood-work.
South Island is larger than North Island and has the
highest mountains. There you can find the snow-capped Southern Alps, rising
3.764 meters to the tip of Mount Cook (named after Captain Cook, of course,
because he visited the islands before sailing on westwards and discovering the
eastern coast of Australia). South Island is very beautiful with its Alps and
lakes, its glaciers and fiords. Have you ever heard of Milford Sound? That is
one of the most picturesque of the fiords, with cliffs rising straight up out
of the water, the whole scene reflected in the water. Down there, too, are the
Sunderland Falls, where water drops six hundred meters, making these falls one
of the highest waterfalls in the whole world? There are many rivers and lakes
in the country. The chief rivers are the Waikato and the Wairu.
New Zealand's rivers are short.So you can see there is plenty to look at in New
Zealand. Plenty of things to do for tourists, because New Zealand is also
famous for its fishing, snow sports, mountaineering, sailing and hiking.
The climate of New Zealand is moist. The climate in
New Zealand is warm and the greater part of the country is well watered. There
are good forests of evergreen trees and large areas are rich grasslands. New
Zealand's climate with rainfalls all the year round, is very favourable for
dairying, sheep-farming and cattle-farming, as well as growing fruit,
vegetables and flowers. The climate is pleasant at all seasons, without much
difference between winter and summer. New Zealand does not have the terrible
heat of Australian summers; the oceans temper its climate and the mountains
bring down quite a lot of rain.
What do the people do? Farm mostly. New Zealand
exports wool, meat, butter. Dairy products, meat and wool are the main
exports. New Zealand ranks second only to Australia as an exporter of wool.
There are many factories there too, with hydro-electric stations to produce the
power for them.
The capital of New Zealand since 1865 and one of its
busiest ports, Wellington is at southern end of North Island, lying among hills
on the western side of a natural harbor. It is the third largest city in New Zealand.
Auckland (the former capital) is the first largest city, and Christchurch is
the second.
The Maori name for Wellington Harbor means the great bay
of Tara. According to Maori legend, Tara was the first Polynesian settler in
this place. But Nicholson (after a Royal Navy captain) was the name given to it
by the first British settlers, and it is still sometimes called by this name.
In 1839 a British officer bought the site of Wellington
from the Maoris; he got it in exchange for blankets and some other unimportant
things. In 1840 the first settlers arrived and called their settlement
Britannia. By 1842 there were 3.700 colonists in the settlement and Britannia
had become Wellington.
New Zealand has very few native animals. The kiwi is
rather an unusual bird found only in New Zealand. It has no tail, almost no
wings, and its nostrils are situated near the end of its bill. No other bird
lays an egg so large in proportion to its size. Its egg is about one fifth of
its own weight. This is a tremendous size. The kiwi, a bird which lives in the
forest and does not fly, is found nowhere else in the world. The kiwi is the
national emblem of New Zealand.
The main cities in North Island are Auckland, the
largest city and port, and Wellington, the capital. Christchurch and Dunedin
are the most important towns in South Island. New Zealand is sometimes called
“The Britain of the Pacific”, because the cities and towns of the country
resemble very much those of England.
New Zealand is rich in minerals. There are some main
industries in the country, for example, iron and steel industry. The country
has gas and petroleum. Forests of exotic pines near the centre of New Zealand's
North Island cover an area of more than 160000 hectares. This is the largest
single continuous area of planted forest in the world. New Zealand has more
than four hundred thousand hectares of planted forests.The most important wood
is pine, which grows five times faster in New Zealand than in its native
habitat in California, USA.
VI.
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