Разработка серии уроков по английскому языку в 9
классе
Учитель: Т.А.Золотарева
The Right
to Life
Задачи урока:
Образовательные: углубить знания учащихся в области граждановедения, улучшить их
компетенцию в иностранном языке, повысить мотивацию к овладению английским
языком, выяснить причины возникновения экстремизма и терроризма раскрыть
разновидности терроризма.
Развивающие: развивать умение понимать, анализировать публикации, умение
формулировать, выражать и отстаивать свое мнение по данной тематике, вести
дискуссию на английском языке, писать короткое эссе.
Воспитательные: осознание учащимися своих прав, развитие умения строить правовые
отношения, разрешать конфликты и споры мирным путем.
Warm-up The
Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child
recognize that every person has the inherent right to life. But “more and more
children are today born out of wedlock, abandoned, homeless, exploited,
sexually and physically abused. The law protects them. But is it enough? Everything
under the sun is changing and the old laws also demand review.” (Yanash Korchak
“How to love a child”)
Работа со статьей
1. Read the article. What title would you propose?
The beginning of the 3rd
millennium, the 21st century...(1) _______________________
And again, fate managed
it so that we heard the horrible sounds of fire, people’s sobs, the mourning of
victims (absolutely innocent ones,(2)____________)
Afghanistan,
Palestine, Yugoslavia... the eternal fields of battle where no one has proved
anything. How terrible and tragic it is to be born and bred in these bloody
lands, and since early childhood adapt to exist so as not to be killed by a
stray bullet from an antagonist’s camp.
You turn on your TV-set
and have to hear:” America began bombing some settlements in Afghanistan,
(3)____________”
And how awful it is when you just
have to hear the latest news. You can do nothing but worry about what will
happen next.
Religious wars. What’s
the reason? Can’t any of the hostile nations understand that God is one, and
that there is no use (4) _______________________. Let them agree to differ. But
silly people find any cause to begin a war; so that one can even think that a
warlike essence is in human nature itself, demanding more and more blood.
Impossible? We just can’t let the matter rest.
Terrorism... (5)___________
it makes people tremble from fear. And we can’t do anything about the
circumstances but live in fear. But such a situation needs an immediate
solution and we can’t sit twiddling our thumbs (6) _______ We all clearly
realize that if we don’t stop war and the bombing of innocent people (as well
as, maybe, guilty ones) and root out terrorism in its basis our land, that in
former times was peaceful, will soon sink in blood and people’s tears. Has God
created this world and the people living in it so that one day it will shudder with
honor (7)__________ ; when, at last, Heaven cries with bloody rain and the
Earth falls asleep... for good?
If we don’t solve this
greatest problem that has destroyed peace, which was created over years, (8)
___________________________.
So, I call for all the
people in the world: enough sufferings, no more blood, no more tears. I
understand I’m just a tiny grain of sand in the seething stream of our life,
and, maybe, no one will hear me. But I guess everyone can answer this question:
(9)_______. I think the answer can be guessed.
2. Where do the following
sentences fit in the article?
Put a number 1—9 in the boxes:
a) soon it’s going to attack the
enemy’s territory from ships [ ]
b) and bury itself in some absolute
darkness. [ ]
c) but the time of wars and
sufferings hasn’t released us yet. [ ]
d) does anyone of us want to live
in eternal war without laws and rules.[ ]
e) what a frightening word. [ ]
f) guilty of only the fact that
they settled in the troubled places. [ ]
g) when people all over the world
are dying. [ ]
h) trying to prove that this or
that religious conviction is right. [ ]
Ii) then we’ll be accused, but
not by God’s Justice, but by History. [ ]
3. Write out the words, which
describe WAR and everything connected with it.
Работа с текстом
1. Find the pairs of opposites
in the list below then read the sentences with them.
Guilty, lose, life, lovely,
horrible, possible, sobs, laughter, born, death, early, killed, created,
innocent, war, late, destroyed, find, peace, incredible
When we live in peace, we do not
often think about war and problems it causes. But TV news programmes remind us
of them and we realize that there are so many wars in the world. Soldiers die
and so do civilians, innocent children are accidentally killed. For many boys
and girls war cancels childhood. 20 million living children around the world
have been forced from their homes by war. 300,000 children worldwide are
exploited as soldiers in around 30 armed conflicts, 10% of these children are
as young as 7. Child soldiers are often used as spies and guards because
children are often the most obedient and loyal soldiers.
2. Read the poem
TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE
A RIGHT
Children are affected by war in their millions
Terrorists take out their anger, attacking
1._______________________
People lose their family in a 2. __________
As extremists and armies demand revenge for
the past
Playing, working or partying, loved ones are
blown up
Immediately news bulletins ask who will
3._____________________
A minute before, there was noise and rush
The day after, there’s just wreckage and
4.__________________________
5. ____________their darling hadn’t gone to
the bar or work or school that day
No body found just yet, they can only pray
For some, life is cheap
But not for the families who 6.________
They’ say they want peace but their methods
are 7._____________
Bombs, gassing, assassination.
8.____________________
Enlisting a nine-year old 9. __________
‘They’ fill him with anger and teach him to
shoot
They tell him it’s good to get revenge but
10._______________
Don’t let another child die in the fight.
3. Fill in the gaps in the poem with the following words.
a. own up ( =to admit)
b. weep ( =to cry)
c. civilians (= people, who aren’t soldiers)
d. two wrongs don’t make a right ( =getting revenge doesn’t
always make the situation better)
e. sick ( =cruel, against humanity)
f. blast (= explosion)
g. recruit (= a person, employed to work for you)
h. if only (it means: “I wish I could change the past)
I. take your pick (= you can choose any of these)
j. hush (= silence)
4. What is the main idea of the poem?
Чтение с извлечением информации
1. Read the paragraphs. Put them in the logical order.
PEOPLE NEVER LOVED
THEIR ENEMIES
I
This time the harsh
measures of the American government and its ally, Great Britain, can be
justified. But still, everybody knows — there is no guarantee that innocent
people will not be harmed during the acts of retaliation. And there is no pride
in killing the innocent. The only person who should be punished is Osama bin
Laden and a bunch of terrorists. Of course, the terrorists will never give up
their leader, its part of their mentality. Ariel Sharon said the war was just,
and that America will win the battle — not only because of its military
advantages, but because of the spirit of the troops, their realization that
they are bringing justice to the world by fighting evil.
II.
But NO WAR IS JUST, even
if seems inevitable.
The terrorists did what they did
because of their belief that America has been oppressing their religion and
their way of life. Yes, America’s policies have been rather aggressive; but
this is not a reason for burying thousands of people in ruins.
The human race had never
been tolerant — centuries passed under the motto: “an eye for an eye, and a
tooth for a tooth”. The only person who was tolerant was crucified long ago.
People have never loved their enemies; nor have they turned their other cheek
to those who dared to strike them.
We should find a place in our
heart for tolerance. Or else the human race will be extinguished.
III.
We have no future. And
no matter how pessimistic it may sound, it is so. We started the 21st century
with a war — a war triggered by intolerance. And now there is hardly a country
in the world left. That has never experienced what it’s like when innocent
people die as a result of terrorist acts.
What happened on
September II, 2001 had no precedent in the history of America.
It is clear that the acts of the terrorists can’t be justified, and many
countries now collaborate in order to fight terrorism. Nothing is forgotten —
there are deadly weapons, and people willing to handle them. The only forgotten
thing is tolerance.
IV.
What is tolerance?
Tolerance, above all things, is readiness to allow others to believe or act as
they judge best. It’s too late to talk about it now, when the war has started,
and thousands of people are gone; but I believe all this could have been
avoided. To face facts, America has been intolerant of some other countries’
regimes and beliefs, and not just recently, but in the past also. There was Hiroshima, Belgrade, Vietnam and Bosnia. And now there is Afghanistan.
Words:
harsh – жесткий,
грубый
ally — coюзник
justify — onpaвдывать
retaliation — возмездие
punish — наказывать
troops—войска
evil— зло
inevitable — неизбежный
motto — девиз
crucify — pacпять
strike — yдapять
extinguish — вымирать
trigger — cnycковой крючок
precedent — случай
collaborate — сотрудничать
weapon — opyжиe
judge — судить
avoid — избегать
2. Answer the questions:
I. Do you agree that we have no
future?
2. How do we call people who
believe that everything will be bad?
3. What does the author say about
the terrorists, innocent people and tolerance?
• Find the sentences in the
article.
3. Read the letters in which
children say what tolerance means to them.
WHAT TOLERANCE MEANS
TO ME
1. Tolerance means to be
able to put up with something you disagree with. It also means to not start an
argument over something you disagree with and it means to keep things to
yourself that might hurt other people’s feelings.
One example of tolerance
is if you don’t like what someone is wearing or something like that, you should
keep it to yourself so you don’t hurt anyone’s feelings.
We should practice
tolerance for many reasons. One reason is so there will be less fighting.
Tolerance also means to be fair, and not make Inn of people. It means to be
kind, sharing, helpful, thoughtful and more.
If we don’t practice
tolerance, we would start doing a lot of mean [lungs. We might even become
prejudiced. That is why we all should practice tolerance.
—
Jenny
—
2.
People who are prejudiced
need to practice tolerance more. They don’t like people who don’t like the same
things that they do. They also don’t like people who don’t look or act the same
as they do. People who are tolerant aren’t as mean to the people they don’t
like. You have probably heard the saying, “If you can’t say anything nice,
don’t say anything at all”. People who are tolerant try hard to do this and
some people really are especially nice to the people that they don’t like,
These people usually are popular, and people who aren’t very tolerant usually
don’t have very many friends, This is because they are mean to people. So
people don’t want to be around them. This is one of the many reasons that you
should be tolerant.
— John
3.
I suppose we all
sometimes stop to think what is right and what is wrong, what we should be.
And, so to say, tolerance is one of the main bricks in the building called
Personality.
I myself am a happy
person, as I have learnt what tolerance is by a very vivid example. I happened
to be in Great Britain, in Birmingham. And it was there that I first saw
volunteers (in the full meaning of this word). They developed their time and
energy to people who were physically or mentally deficient. That impressed me
greatly. There was a whole organization called YDSMF (Youth Dances, Sings and
Makes Future). The volunteers smiled all the time. Their helpfulness and
tolerance echoed in their hearts with double force. By their example they
showed how the word we live in should be: there are no “cripples”, no
“deficient” people for them. There were (and there are) only personalities that
make this world, its peculiarities and special aspects.
- Ann
4.
I learned a lot about
tolerance. I think that tolerance means that everyone should respect each
other. God created us all equal so we should respect everyone in an equal way.
You shouldn’t judge people by their looks, like their colour. When someone does
something bad to someone else because of their culture they don’t realize
that’s like doing something to their own family members.
I learned that a lot of
people don’t treat others equally like they should. I think it’s good that
teachers talk about this kind of things. It affected me because I realized how
to treat others nicely and deal with
someone who is rude to others.
—Ashion
5.
Tolerance is accepting
all people no matter what their race, religion, disabilities and lots of other
differences are. Some people do not believe in people who are different. That
is called prejudice. Blacks were not accepted in white churches and women were
not allowed to vote because of intolerance One example is laughing at mentalIy-retarded
or handicapped people that make them feel bad about themselves and it can even
make you look bad.
Another example of
intolerance is making remarks against other people’s religions. And last but
not least is fighting against people of another colour. A long time ago, black
people were not allowed to do certain things or go certain places in America. Some of them were sitting in the back of the bus.
— Jessica
6.
Tolerance is important for
our little town like Mount Vernon and the whole world. Tolerance is important
so that people can learn to appreciate others and let them live by their own
beliefs. Tolerance is also important so that there aren’t as many fights in the
world. At Mount Vernon Middle School, if we did not have tolerance, we would
have lots more fights and lots more students arguing and lots more put-downs
and ii lot ‘note teasing.
‘The dictionary says
tolerance is willingness t let others have their own beliefs or ways even
though these are not like one’s own. Now that we have some tolerance in the
world, people are not fighting as much and people are helping and caring for
others. Tolerance is important; we do not have enough tolerance in the world.
We could use some more.
— Greg
4. What does tolerance mean to these children? Fill in
the chart.
Name
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How I understand
tolerane
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2
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3
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4
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5
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5. The following
words are the mottoes of some children. Can you add yours?
Tolerance end violence!
Tolerance begins at home!
Tolerance wins friends!
Выступление учителя
First we should understand
what the word “tolerance” means. According to the definition given in the
American Heritage Dictionary tolerance is “the capacity for respecting the
beliefs or practices of others”; while A.S. Hornby’s Oxford Dictionary explains
tolerance as “the quality of tolerating opinions, beliefs, customs, physical types
and behavior different from one’s own”. So, I’m quite sure that tolerance is
considered the sign of a high inner world and the intellectual development of
an individual, a group or society as a whole.
I have every reason to
assert that tolerance is very important nowadays in the world, because in the
20th century hundreds of millions people left their home places in order to
avoid military collisions, hostilities, natural and ecological disasters, and
to save their children and themselves from open and concealed genocide.
Since our ancestors were
Christians, tolerance is deep in our souls, i.e. in the souls of Russian
people. It’s proved by the following quotation:” Thou shalt loves thy neighbor
as thyself’ (Bible, Matthew 22:39)
If we realize the
importance of tolerance now, we’ll be able to live in a new society in future.
It’s time for the human race to stop fighting and hating each other. Generally
speaking everyone should adhere to Alexander Severov’s words: “Do not do onto others
what you would not want them to do onto you”.
It’s safe to say that
tolerance is especially important for Russia, because our country is a polytechnic
one; there are many minor nationalities in it.
The reasons for this are
in the religious and racial conflicts. Some religious fanatics, along with
people who sometimes use their beliefs for their own profits, stop at nothing
in pursuit of their aims.
Two of the main religions
of the world — Christianity and Islam - have been existing side without any
conflicts in our country for several centuries.
Домашнее задание
You should write what tolerance
means to you. Use the prompts, if you need.
You may write it in a form of an
essay or a letter to your opponent who doesn’t think that people should be
tolerant.
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