Урок практичних завдань з елементами критичного мислення
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The Theme: Smoking
Grammar Theme: Direct and Reported Speech
The Objectives: By the end of the lesson students will be able:
– to develop speaking and listening skills about the theme;
– to learn the tense changes in reported speech;
– to train group work;
– to develop memory and imagination, to form positive attitude to bad habits.
The Procedure
1. Warm up.
Smoking kills, but a lot of young people still start smoking before they are sixteen.
– What do you think, do your classmates smoke? Why?
– Why do you think young people smoke? Share your ideas with the class and make a list on the board.
2. Presentation.
– Listen to the text exercise 1, page 44.
– Train to use new words: glossary,
Fag - cigarette (informal)
Impress - make someone feel admiration and respect
To corner someone - force into a corner, put into a difficult position
Knock off - to shorten
Corner shop - in a nearest region
Faint - lose consciousness, become weak, not strong
There’s no point in - ing - to show the position, little reason for doing it.
Chant - often repeated tune
– Exercise 2, page 44. Read this extract from the book Diary of the teenage health freak. What reasons does it give for young people smoking? Are they different from your ideas in the Warm-up?
– Group work: Why do Ann and Dave smoke? Choose.
Sister joked
Didn’t want to look stupid
Wanted to impress the sister and the boyfriend
To look sexy
Bought the fags from the corner shop
Mum and dad smoked
Enjoyed smoking
To look big and hard
Helped after arguments with mum
Started smoking at the river
Smoke only on parties and discos
– Exercise 3, page 44. Answer the questions.
1 What are the disadvantages of smoking according to the text?
2 Why doesn’t Ann stop smoking now?
3 When is a cigarette helpful to Dave?
4 What did the writer’s classmates find funny?
3. Practiсe.
– Vocabulary. Exercise 4, page 45. Match four of these expressions to the definitions.
feel dizzy
throw up
faint
cough
make your eyes water
hurt the back of your throat
1. Send the food in your throat with a sudden mouth; get sick
2. Send air through your throat with a sudden loud noise
3. To lode consciousness
4. Feel as if everything is spinning round and you might fall
– Exercise5, page 45. Choose the correct phrase to complete the sentences.
1. A heavy smoker smokes a lot/ doesn’t smoke much.
2. A corner smoker shop is a small local shop/ a large supermarket.
3. “I had a puff” means he smoked a whole cigarette/ tried a cigarette.
4. “Hold your breath” means stop breathing/ breathe deeply.
– Group work
1 Why smoking is bad? Name disadvantages.
The health is in danger (ruin health, illnesses, lung cancer, heart attack, tuberculosis).
Case to worry about sport, exams, friends.
It helps after arguments with somebody.
Damage not only your own health, but the health of those around you.
2 Why do you think so many people smoke?
Children whose parents smoke are more likely to smoke themselves (they copy their parents).
They copy their friends, older brothers and sisters.
The think it makes them look grown-up.
Feel stronger and cooler.
To impress friends, to look sexy, big and hard.
It helps to relax.
Calm down
– Read improve your grammar, page 45 and feel in the table.
Direct Speech Reported Speech
1. He said: “Present Simple”
2. He said: “Present Continuous”
3. He said: “Present Perfect”
4. He said: “Present Perfect Continuous”
5. He said: “Past Simple”
6. He said: “Future Simple”
Study the example.
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Direct: Tom said “ feeling ill.”
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Reported: Tom said that feeling ill.
– Questions.
1. What time do you go to school?
(Alla) I go to school at 8 o’clock.
2. What did you do yesterday in the evening?
(Olga) I watched TV.
3. Have you ever visited Florida?
(Dima) I have never visited Florida.
4. What will the weather be like tomorrow?
(Ira) It will snow.
– Change into reported speech.
1. He’s ill. (She thought)
2. I’ll back tomorrow. (He said)
3. I don’t like this music. (She said)
4. Nobody loves me. (I felt)
5. I’ll clean the flat. (She offered)
6. I’m tired. (He said)
– Exercise 7, page 45.
Make up Direct speech
1. Pete said: “I am waiting to see Titanic.”
2. Angie said: “I ……… .”
3. She said: “I ……… .”
4. Pete said: “I ……… .”
5. He said: “I ……… .”
6. Angie said him: “I am sure he will enjoy the film.”
4. Production.
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– Listening. Exercise 8, page 45. Work in pairs this statement and discuss the questions.
1. Cherie Piper is two years old.
2. Her parents gave her cigarettes.
3. Her mum didn’t smoke when she was pregnant.
4. Dr Adams does not believe that you can be a nicotine addict at birth.
5. Cigarette smoke causes lung cancer but only in smokers.
6. Non-smokers can take in almost a cigarette a day.
1. T
2. F
3. F
4. F
5. F
6. F
5. Revision.
– Talking point. Work in small groups. Discuss the questions. Share your conclusions with the class.
1. Do you think adults encourage young people to smoke? If so, how?
2. Do you think we should discourage young people from smoking? If so, how would you do it?
6. Home assignment.
– To speak about smoking. Prepare additional information about “Secondhand smoking”
– Exercise 1A, page 60.
