Урок английского языка "W.Shakespeare. The Seven Ages of Man"

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Оснащение урока:

рабочая тетрадь к учебнику «New Hotline Intermediate» (автор Tom Hutchinson, издательство Oxford University Press), портрет В.Шекспира, картинки с изображением театра Глобус, города Stratford-on-Avon, листы со стихотворением The Seven Ages of Man, иллюстрации к стихотворению, журнал “Speak Out”, различные издания со стихотворениями и сонетами Шекспира, ПК с презентацией по теме, мультимедийный проектор.

Цели урока:

  1. Обучать работе со стихотворными произведениями, умению анализировать содержание прочитанного текста.
  2. Развивать навыки говорения в процессе творческого общения друг с другом и с учителем на основе изучаемой темы.
  3. Воспитывать интерес учащихся к культурному наследию Великобритании, прививать понимание эстетической ценности поэзии.

Ход урока

1. Организационный момент. Постановка задач урока.

Hello my dear friends! Today we are having a very interesting and unusual lesson as we are going to speak about William Shakespeare. We are going to have a short discussion of the most well-known facts of his biography, his plays and what is more we are going to read and discuss an extract from a play written by Shakespeare.

2. Проверка домашнего задания.

But first of all I would like to check your home task. Your task was to read the text about W. Shakespeare in your Workbooks and to find out as much information as it is possible in different sources about the great British poet. I am going to tell your some information about William Shakespeare and you will tell me if it is true or false.

- Shakespeare was born in the 17th century. Is it true? (False, in the 16th)
- William got a good education in London. (False, in the local grammar school in Stratford)
- William married late. (False, he married at the age of 18)
- His wife was 9 years older than he. (True)
- William Shakespeare had 3 children. (True, a daughter and twins - a son and a daughter)
- Shakespeare never acted on the stage. (False)
- Shakespeare died in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
(False, he died in Stratford-on-Avon and was buried there).

3. Творческое задание на развитие воображения.

Here is a chance to use your imagination. Picture yourself in a London street during Shakespeare time. Relax and use your imagination to experience what it would be like. Pay attention to all 5 senses.
What do you

see?
hear?
smell?
feel?

Think of positive and negative things. Now share your feelings with the class.

4 . Беседа о произведениях В. Шекспира.

When people mention Shakespeare’s name they do not usually think about his biography, they think about a great number of his works that are known to many people all over the world.
What things did Shakespeare write?
His plays are divided into comedies and tragedies. Can you name any of them?

(Hamlet, Prince of Denmark; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Taming of the Shrew; Much Ado about Nothing; The Comedy of Errors; Twelfth Night)

5. Аудирование. “To be, or not to be?”

You are going to listen to an extract from a famous play. Do you remember its name? Who is the main character?

6. Работа с известными выражениями из произведений Шекспира.

“To be, or not to be; that is the question” This quotation is known to everybody, but there are a lot of other famous quotations and interesting expressions from Shakespeare’s plays. Let us translate them into Russian.

- The beginning of the end. Начало конца.
- All is well that ends well. Все хорошо, что хорошо кончается.
- Much ado about nothing. Много шума из ничего.
- To win golden opinion. Заслужить благоприятное мнение.

7. Декламирование учащимися отрывков из произведений Шекспира.

Shakespeare wrote many sonnets (154). They are loved by many people and were translated into many languages. Shakespeare’s plays are still popular nowadays. They are staged and many of them have contemporary meaning. Now you are going to listen to an extract from a very famous play and then you tell me its name. As you know Nastya Stankevich likes English poetry very much and she is going to recite the extract for you.

Romeo and Juliet. Balcony Scene.

8. Работа со стихотворением The Seven Ages of Man (from “As You Like It”)

1. “All the world’s a stage, and all the man and women merely players.” These words are from a famous speech, known as The Seven Ages of Man, by character called Jaques. Do you know how to translate them? What do you think the ages in man’s life are?

2. Now listen to the extract, follow it in your papers and then answer the question:
What are the seven ages that Jaques describes? While listening you can underline the key words. (Прослушивание текста, записанного на аудиокассете)

“AS YOU LIKE IT” (by W. Shakespeare) Act II, Scene7

Jaques





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20




25

All the world`s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse`s arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school, and then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad
Made to his mistress` eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon`s mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin`d,
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper`d pantaloon
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose well sav`d world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends his strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

3. Take the papers and in pairs read this extract again and try to understand it.
But do not translate it word by word. You have got a glossary for better understanding.

Glossary (by line number)

  1. merely – просто
  2. mewling and puking зд. плакать и срыгивать
  3. whining – жалуясь и хныча
  4. satchel – ранец
  5. creeping
  6. like snail – moving slowly like snail
  7. furnace – очаг, печь
  8. woful – sad
  9. oaths – проклятия, ругательства
  10. bearded like the pard – with the beard like a priest
  11. justice – judge
  12. belly – живот
  13. сapon lin`d – как откормленный петух
  14. saws – пословицы, афоризмы
  15. instances - examples
  16. shifts – передвигается
  17. lean – thin
  18. slipper`d – with slippers on
  19. pantaloon – trousers
  20. pouch – кисет
  21. hose – рейтузы
  22. The trousers which were saved from when he was young are now much too
    big for his body, which has shrunk. (усохло)
  23. treble – дискант, сопрано
  24. oblivion – забывчивость
  25. sans - without

4. Comprehension check.

- What is the modern word for players?
- What are exits and entrances, parts and acts in the theatre? What are they in a person’s life?
- Does the baby seem attractive? What does not the school-boy want to do?
- What is the lover doing?
- Do all these words describe the soldier?
violent quick-tempered clever
- What can not man in the seventh age do?
- There is a negative criticism of each of the seven people. Who …

  • keeps on complaining?
  • wants fame so much that he will probably kill himself?
  • looks rather funny?
  • sounds and smells awful?
  • probably would not notice any sounds or smell?
  • sounds a real bore?
  • will probably be mature with age?

9. Практика устной речи. Самостоятельные высказывания учащихся по анализируемому произведению.

“As You Like It” was written nearly four hundred years ago. How much are Shakespeare’s descriptions of people still true today? Do you know anyone that resembles one of the characters? Shakespeare describes the ages of man very cynically. How could each person and age be described in a more flattering way?

10. Подведение итогов урока. Выставление оценок.

11. Домашнее задание: выразительное чтение стихотворения.