Проблемный вопрос: Cinema: an art or an entertainment?
Цель урока: оценка приобретенных знаний и степени владения учебным материалом, понимание смыслового содержания изученного в творческом переносе знаний.
Задачи урока:
- Обобщить и систематизировать знания по истории кинематографии;
- Активизировать речевую деятельность учащихся через различные виды творческих заданий;
- Воспитывать чувство сопричастности к мировому искусству.
Форма урока: экскурсия по Голливуду.
Ход урока
Good morning, my dear friends! I am very glad to see you here at our lesson today which is devoted to the topic “What helps you to enjoy yourselves?” The aim of our lesson is to sum all the material up and just have fun communicating with each other and answering the question “Cinema an art or an entertainment?”
It would be no exaggeration to say that TV is one of the best inventions the man has ever made. We are beginning to forget what the world was without TV. Everybody knows what a great force of TV is in the world today. Thanks to TV we get a great amount of information, it gives wonderful possibilities for education. TV gives an opportunity to see the best actors and actresses to meet famous people of our country and of other lands, we learn about their customs, traditions, life. So today I would like to invite you to one of the famous cities of the USA, the most splendid factory of stars, a paradise of sun and palms, the most astonishing centre of cinematography – Hollywood.
Now we are at the “alley of stars” (учитель раскладывает звезды на полу) where two excellent and good-looking guides are meeting us (две ученицы из другого 11-го класса)
Guide 1: Good morning! We are glad to see you here in the city, Hollywood. Let us first tell you a few words about the history of cinematography.
Can you imagine life without films or television, cinema’s sister? Today we can watch television 24 hours a day; we can go to the cinema or put a cassette into our video when we want. We can even make films ourselves.
But imagine the surprise and the shock that people felt when they saw the first films in 1895! There was no sound, no colour and the films were very short: they lasted from 60 to 90 seconds! Besides they did not tell stories. They were just glimpses of real life: a military parade, a running horse, a boxing match… One of the first films showed a train coming towards the camera. It was shot by brothers Lumiers. The audience panicked and ran away! The frightened people were sure that the train was coming into the theatre (идет заставка на компьютере).
Guide 2: The early films were shown in music halls, theatres, cafes and even shops.
The cinema was the perfect popular entertainment. It was not expensive and at first the audience consisted of workers. The rich and intellectual classes ignored it. They didn’t think it was art.
Gradually films became longer and started to tell stories. Edwin Porter was one of the first directors who made such a film in 1903. It was “The Great Train Robbery”, the first western in the history of the cinema. This 11-minute film became a sensational hit.
Guide 1: As soon as the films learnt to tell stories they began to film classics. Silent films had orchestras or pianists. Later, printed titles were invented.
Film-makers soon learnt how to use special effects. In 1911 the first studio appeared in Hollywood, Los Angeles. Film-makers realized that the place was perfect for shooting nearly any film – it had mountains, desert and ocean. Soon nearly all important American studios were in Hollywood. The next thirty years became Hollywood’s greatest years.
Guide 2: The era of the talking film began in 1927 with the enormous success of Warner Brothers’ “The Jazz Singer”. The first colour films were made in the 1930s, but it’s introduction was less revolutionary than the sound films (“Gone with the Wind” with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable in leading roles).
Teacher: Oh, thank you very much; you gave us a real hand. It was educational and informative. And now I want you to work in Hollywood’s studios. The name of our first studio is “Training Studio” where you will be given a lot of cards on lexical and grammar material.
Try to guess/give synonyms (фронтально)
- splendid (astonishing, magnificent)
- be full of violence (cruel)
- without a sound (silent)
- without colour (black and white)
- to make a film (to shoot)
- moving (touching)
- stage (scene)
- love / passion (fondness)
- a kind / type of a film (genre)
- grown-up
- dreadful (lousy, terrible)
- a plan of a film (plot)
- people don’t like the film and begin to (yawn)
- main (basic, essential)
- play in the film (to star)
- to grab (to catch)
- make an advertisement (to announce)
- a place where actors prepare for performances (backstage)
Work in groups of 2.
1. Add one word to make proper word combinations.
- be stuffed with….. (events, special effects)
- true to…..(life)
- keep in……..(suspense)
- defend……..(justice)
- nothing to write home………(about)
- grab one’s……..(attention)
- romantic………(story line)
- full of…………(tears)
- unreal…………(events)
2. Translate from R –> E
- Когда у нас есть свободное время, мы можем посмотреть телевизор, послушать музыку, сходить в театр, на дискотеку; что касается меня, я люблю ходить в кино.
- Трогательные сентиментальные фильмы развлекают меня.
- Я люблю смотреть исторические фильмы, т.к. они образовывают меня.
- Новый цветной художественный фильм “Маска” – это комедия, захватывающая и поглощающая.
All the rest please let’s work together with me.
Make emphatic sentences from neutral ones: (in pairs)
P.1 — He liked to go to the cinema.
P.2 — He did like to go to the cinema.
P.3 — It was magnificent.
P.4 — It was magnificent.
Teacher: In the process of making films there are many necessary people who do different tasks. Now I’ll give you a crossword and you’ll try to guess people of what professions take part in this business.
a person who writes scripts
a person who is at the head of the film
a man playing roles
a man making actor’s image
a person who makes dangerous actions instead of real actors
a person who is in charge of the money of the film
a woman or a girl playing a role
a man choosing the best bits of the shooting film, cuts films and puts the bits together
a man who is connected with lights
a man who is linked with the sound of the film.
Good for you. Thank you.
Teacher: The second studio is named “Thriller or Horror?” Here you will be show some parts of different films and you are to guess to prove why you think so (учитель включает видеомагнитофон).
(I think/guess/suppose/believe…)
- comedy
- tragedy
- action film
- melodrama
- western
- historical film
- fiction
P.1 – I think that it is an action film because it has a dynamic story, full of special effects, stuffed with fights and killings. What a bore! и т.д.
Teacher: The name of the third studio is “The Index of Popularity”. I am completely sure that in your country many American films are transmitted and you, of course, heard about outstanding actors and actresses. So I’d like to show you some pictures and you are to guess who they are (мальчики угадывают актрис, девочки –актеров) – с помощью компьютера показываю фото.
- Николь Кидман;Николас Кейдж;
- Дженифер Лопес;Стивен Сигал;
- Сара Баффолк;Рассел Кроу;
- Кира Найтли;Брюс Уиллис;
- Джулия Робертс;Эдди Мерфи.
Pupils give answers on sheets of paper. The teacher takes these sheets and analyses them but pupils do some other tasks: usually well-known actors work with famous directors, producers who offer them suitable conditions for work and big suns of money. And of course, you heard about them, didn’t you?
(Прием “Найди пару”) – на карточках.
Match the names of directors with the titles of the films.
Steven Spielberg — “Jurassic Park”.
James Cameron — “Titanic”.
Chris Carter — “The X-files”.
Francis Ford Coppola — “The Godfather”.
Kventeen Tarantino — “To Kill Bill”.
Reedly Scott — “Gladiator”.
(Объявить результаты анализа).
Pronounce these sentences using which/who
e.g. “Jurassic Park is a frightful film which was made by Steven Spielberg. It was good. Thank you.
The fourth studio is named “Actors and actresses in practice”. It goes without saying that every boy and girl dreamt of becoming an actor or an actress in his childhood. And I am sure you are not an exception, are you? You wanted to copy these people in appearance, in character, in manners. That’s why today I would like to give you a chance to make your dreams come true. Your task is to sound and act some parts of popular Russian films (при помощи компьютера; кадр идет без звука; дети озвучивают).
1. “Gentlemen of Luck”
2. “A Man from Capuzchin’s Avenue”
3. “The Caucasian Prisoner”
Thank you for your participation and creative abilities; you really did your best in acting and of course you deserve to have your own star at the “alley of stars” in Hollywood. (учитель крепит звезду “11 “а” класс” на “аллею звезд”).
Let’s return to the question on the blackboard. Try to answer it:
Is cinema an art or an entertainment?
Pupils prove their points of view.
Рефлексия: Did you like our lesson? Why? What marks can you give to each other?
Thank you very much for your work, I am satisfied with it completely.
Учебники, литература
- Подгорская О.Н., Черничкина Е.К. Предметные недели в школе. Английский язык. – Волгоград: “Учитель”,2004
- Цветкова И.В., Клепальченко И.А., Мыльцева Н.А. Английский язык для школьников и поступающих в ВУЗы. – М.: “Глосса”, 2000
Дидактические материалы
Проекты учащихся (на стенах), кроссворд, карточки с заданиями.
Средства ТСО
Видеодвойка, компьютер, проектор, экран, диски с кассеты с отрывками фильмов.
Оборудование
“Аллея звёзд”, атрибуты для озвучивания фильмов (шляпы, пистолеты, халаты, шприцы, платки, шаль), таблички с названиями студий.