Sunday, January 29, 2012


Type of the lesson: English practice(speaking practice)
Age of students: 17-18(2-year students)
General topic of the lesson: Sports and Games
Goals of the class: to  form, built, practice, develop speaking skills; to improve speaking and reading skills: to increase vocabulary.
Goals of the activity: reading,listening.

  1. Greeting.
1.1 Good morning, students. Our topic is “Sports and Games”. You'll learn new words concerning this topic, of course practice them in the process of reading, discussion.You'll do many exercises. But before you start doing all those things, I just want you to concentrate a little bit and to practice your pronunciation with the help of tongue twisters(of course about sports) .
      1.2. Warm-up activity.
- to draw the attention of the students to practice pronunciation
       - giving examples, reading aloud in a group, individual work.
1.      A bloke's back bike brake block broke.
       His helmet habit wholly held him harmless when he hit.
2.      Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again
Well swum, swan!
3.      New material(to learn new vocabulary)
the list of new words, read,translate and learn them.


Words
Some popular sports
archery                                                       skating                                                  artistic
           gymnastics (callisthenics)              
skiing                                                         boxing                                                 
cross-country skiing                                       car (motorcycle) racing                         down-hill  skiing
cycling                                                       ski-jump                                                diving 
slalom                                                        fencing                                                 sky diving                                                                                                                                     (parachuting)                         
figure-skating                                            swimming                                             gymnastics 
weight-lifting                                            gliding                                                  windsurfing
hang gliding                                              wrestling                                               mountaineering       
arm-wrestling                                            rowing and canoeing                            yachting
athletics (track-and-field)                          marathon (race)                                    discus     
                                                                 
pole vault (vaulting)                                  throwing                                               race/run
high (long, triple) jump                              shot putting                                          hurdle races            
steeplechase
Some popular games
Open-air games
badminton n                                                               net-ball n
basket-ball n                                                               rugby n (colloq. rugger)
cricket n                                                                     (lawn) tennis n
football n (colloq. soccer)                                          volley-ball n
golf n                                                                         water polo
hockey n
Indoor games
chess n                                                                       squash n
draughts n                                                                  table-tennis n
Sports Terms
amateur (professional) sport                                    cup (final, semi-final) match
indoor (outdoor or open-air) sports                         championship n, е.g. national                 
football championship                                             sport n
compete v                                                                sports n = events
competition n, е.g. inter-                                         sports adj, е.g. sports jacket
          college cup competition                                       (shirt)
con'test v                                                                 sporting adj
'contest n, е.g. world gym nastics                           tournament n
      contest (rivalry in singing, beauty)
Participants
crew n (used for sportsmen                                     opponent (rival) n
rowing or sailing a boat)                                          sportsman (athlete) n
national (Olympic, college)                                     sportswoman n team
official (umpire, referee, judge) n
Word Combinations
athletic training                                                       to win the team (personal,
to follow a tournament                                                 national, world) champion-
         (competition, etc.)                                               ship
to kick the ball                                                         to win by 2 (3, etc.) goals
to score a goal (20 points)                                            (points)
to keep the score                                                     to win with the score 4 to 0
to end a game in a draw                                                in smb.'s favour
       (to draw a game)                                              to set up (break) a record
to win a prize (a cup,                                               the record holder
        victory)                                                            the world (national, European) record

4. - practice new vocabulary
    - practice new vocabulary by reading and correctly pronounce it, doing vocabulary exercises.

4.1 Fill in prepositions if necessary:

Sport is very popular ... Britain. ... other words a lot... British people like the idea ... sport, a lot even watch sport, especially... the TV. However, the number who actively take part ... sport is probably quite small. ... the whole British people prefer to be fat rather than fit
The most popular spectator sport is football. Football is played ... a Saturday afternoon ... most British towns and the fans, or supporters ... a particular team will travel... one end ... the country... the other to see their team play,
Many other sports are also played ... Britain, including golf ... which you try to knock a ball ... a hole; croquet... which you try to knock a ball... some hoops; basket-ball... which you try to get a ball... a net; tennis ... which you try to hit a . ball so that your opponent cannot hit it and cricket which is played ... a ball, but is otherwise incomprehensible. As you can see, if the ball had not been invented, there would have been no sport.
Actually that's not quite true. Athletics is not played ... a ball, nor is horse-racing. Perhaps that explains why they are not so popular as football.

4.2 Correct the wrong statements. Add a few more sentences to make up a dialogue:

1. There is no difference between "soccer" and "rugby". 2. Badminton can be played only indoors. 3. The goal-keep­er acts as a judge in football. 4. Ice hockey is popular with women. 5. A tennis ball is struck with a club. 6. Women are good football players as a rule. 7. People who play draughts are called draughtsmen. 8. We use balls when playing bad­minton. 9. Golf is played on ice fields. 10. Hockey is one of the most popular summer games. 11. Table-tennis and lawn-tennis are one and the same game. 12. In hockey a hand­ball and rackets are used. 13. Boxers fight with bare hands. 14. Track and field events are never included in Olympic Games. 15. You may touch the ball with your hands when playing football.

4.3.. Try to describe your favourite game. Use a dictionary to look up any special words. Use new vocabulary. Speak according to the plan that is given in the example:

E x a m p l e:
1. Number of players (per team)
2. Equipment necessary
3. Place where played
4. How to play and win
5. Length of game.
6. Some of the rules

5. Reading

-read and translate the text

SPORTS AND GAMES POPULAR IN ENGLAND
— What would you say are the most popular games in England today?
— Well, I suppose football, that is, soccer or rugger, and cricket.
— What are the other outdoor games?
— Oh, there's tennis, hockey, golf, and so on. Tennis is played all the year round — on hard courts or grass courts in summer, and on hard or covered courts in winter.
— What about horse-racing?
— I should say that is one of the most popular sports in Great Britain. Then there are, of course, walking-races, run­ning, swimming and boxing.
— I've been told that there are no winter sports in En­gland.
— Well, you see, the English winter isn't very severe as a rule, and we don't often have the chance of skiing, skating or tobogganing, but winter is the great time for hunting, provid­ed the ground is not too hard.
— Is there any golf to be had near London?
— Oh, yes, any amount. There are dozens of good golf-links within an hour or so of London. You ought to join a golf club if you're keen on the game.
— I think I shall if I get the chance. What about indoor games?
— Well, there's chess, billiards, cards, table tennis... By the way, do you play billiards?
— Well, I do, but of course, I'm not a professional or a champion, just an ordinary amateur, and not a very good one at that.
6. Home task:
  6.1 - at home you must  learn this dialogue by heart or make your own dialog. You can work in group or pairs.
 6.2 I would like to offer you a video “Sport news”. You task is to figure out the news and present them in our class from the reporter point of view.







4 comments:

  1. An active lesson, think I would not be bored even though it's bout sports. If there is a need in points, - 5 from 5 ;))
    The commentator is funny!

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  2. Nastya`s lesson is very good, I like the structure itself, it has a good order, so students would feel comfortably and free at the lesson.It`s important. Another thing that I liked is the "Greetings" from the very beginning, so the teacher show the respect to every student and makes the first contacting step to the auditory. The topic is really urgent. I put the highest mark - 5!

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  3. Good structured lesson with a clear focus! Nastya uses appropriate methods to age and proficiency level of students. Here we can see also great balance of activities. She also provides clear and consise directions that students can follow. The most thing that I like about this lesson is big amount of speaking activities. That's what exactly second-year students need.
    I put her 5!

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  4. Nastya, I really enjoyed your lesson and I agree with Tanya Koba that your lesson is really active!(actually it was the first word that came to my mind after reading the vocabulary for the lesson))Also I like the Warm-up activity because i think that patters really help students to improve their pronunciation.But if I were a student I wouldn't learn such a big and big!!! dialogue by heart)))) My mark is 5))

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