Цель:          исследовать проблемы молодежи,    предложить способы их решения.

Задачи:

          образовательная – активизировать употребление лексики по теме, речевых клише;

       развивающая – развить навыки монологической и диалогической речи, cовершенствовать навыки аудирования;

          воспитательная – способствовать повышению познавательного интереса учащихся  к изучению английского языка в процессе проектной работы; воспитанию культуры общения, cамокритичности, внимательного отношения к окружающим людям.

Оборудование:

проекты учащихся; интерактивная доска; диктофон; плакат " How to make presentation effective”; список речевых клише, помогающих построить монолог и выразить собственное мнение; плакат в форме ромашки, раскрывающий стороны жизни подростков; анкета самооценки участия в проектной работе.

(УМК "Английский язык для IX класса школ с углубленным изучением английского языка” О.В. Афанасьевой, И.В. Михеевой).                                                     

Ход урока:

T: Hello, everyone! I’m glad to see you. How are you?

The theme of our lesson today is "Teenage life”.

We’re going to speak about its different sides, concerns and problems you have.

We’ll try to give you advice how to overcome difficulties and to survive nowadays.

You’ll try to present your projects on the topic. Ready?

II. Речевая зарядка (T-P1P2).

T: But first answer some questions.

Is the topic interesting and actual for you? Why?

What is a teenager?

What is it like to be a teenager today?

Is teenage life more difficult or easy than that of grown-ups?

What parts does a teenage life consist of?

( В процессе беседы учитель "рисует” " схему” подростковой жизни в форме ромашки).

     Where do teenagers spend the most of their life?

      Do you have a problem connected with jobs?

 The problem of health is also important for you, isn’t it?

 Do you think it’s possible to solve the problems?

  Now read the sentence (запись на доске: Facing teenagers’ problems young people learn to overcome difficulties.) How do you understand the words?

III. Презентация проектов.

1) Вступительное слово учителя.

T: Today you’ve prepared projects on the topic of our lesson.

Before you start I’d like to remind 5 elements of effective presentation:

No nervousness (speak slower).

Vocal quality (be loud enough).

Eye contact (be friendly with the audience).

Body language (use natural gestures).

Question time (don’t be afraid of questions).

Take the advice into account and you’ll succeed.

2) Фонетическая отработка речевых клише.

T (показывая на плакат со списком вводных слов, помогающих построить связное монологическое высказывание и выразить собственное мнение):

 Don’t forget to use the link-words and the phrases that help to express your opinion.

T: Now listen to the projects attentively and choose the best. Be ready to become an opponent and to ask questions! The first project is about relations with parents. Welcome!

P1: To begin with, I think that the life of a man consists of a large number of different problems. And teenagers have as many problems as the grown-ups. Their problem number one is that of "fathers and sons”, to my mind. That’s why our group has chosen the topic.

We have analysed the reasons of the problem. It seems to me, teenagers consider themselves independent, they try to break all the rules. As a result, some of them run away from home, others have quarrels with their parents. It helps them to think that they are free, but that’s a delusion.

On the other hand, it sounds awful but very often parents can’t understand their own child. Moreover, they try to choose school, university, job, friends, later husband or wife to their children. They even don’t want to ask them if children agree with their decision. To sum it up, parents can’t or maybe don’t want to see a person in their child. That is the second reason of misunderstanding between parents and teenagers.

T: These are the reasons of the problems with parents. And what about the project itself?

P2: It’s my turn. To begin with, we have made our project in the form of a problem page in a teenage magazine called "New Hotline Magazine”. You can see teenagers’ letters about problems with parents here. They are:

forbidding  to go out after 10,

                   to play computer games for a long time,

                   to watch TV late at night,

not getting enough pocket money,

asking doing housework, studying hard,

having different tastes in music, TV programmes, fashion, etc.

According to our servey, the most common problem is not allowing to go out after 10.

Then the problem of studying hard comes.

Not getting enough pocket money is next.

Opponent: What problems with parents do you have?

                   Do they allow you to go out after 10?

T: Is there any way out do you think? Can we solve the problem?

P3: We think it’s possible to solve the problem. First of all, young people should listen to their parents and try to find understanding. As a rule, grown-ups love there children and wish them the best.

But on the contrary, adults need to remember that some years ago they were teenagers too and they had the same problems as we have now. To my mind, they should direct us to the right way because our personality isn’t formed yet.

Opponent: What ways to achieve understanding do you offer?

P3: As I have already said, we offer:

                                                           to listen to parents advice,

                                                           to follow their advice,

                                                           to help about the house,

                                                           to try to study well,

                                                           not to ignore all the rules,

                                                           to talk things over with parents.

T: Great! Thank you! And what is your life at school like? Natasha and Lena, welcome!

(Далее следует презентация проекта с использованием интерактивной доски и слайдов.)

P4: School is our second home. We spend about six hours here. That’s why we’d like to tell you about our school life.

P5: Our school building is modern and new. It’s only five years old. The official name of our school is SECONDARY SCHOOL 12 WITH EXTENSIVE LEARNING OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. We have English five days a week.

P4: All grown-ups pay much attention to our students’ health. We have a great gym, where we can go in for different sports, a special room for optional physical classes. Any person can visit a dentist and consult a nurse, have lunch or tasty dinner at our school dining-room or café. Such beautiful places help us to relax and to feel comfortable at school.

P5: Some students like school, others don’t but they all study for eleven years and gain knowledge by doing different tasks. We have classes in Russian, Literature, Mathematics, History, Geography, Biology, etc. Computer classes are for studying Information Technology and Computer Programming. We can use the Internet here as well.

P4: My classmates aren’t well disciplined sometimes and as a result their knowledge isn’t good enough. When our teachers criticize us, they try to correct our students’ actions, to my mind.

P5: After school we don’t usually go home right away. We often have out-of-class activities. Many students take part in different clubs. Some of us like to go in for sports, others prefer dancing or hiking.

P4: School is not only a place of education. We always feel at home here. I’m on good terms with my classmates and we often spend time together.

Opponent: Some people think that school years are the happiest in their life. Can you say you are happy at school? Why?

P5: I think that the most important role of school is giving knowledge. I can say that my school gives me such knowledge. I like my teachers and classmates, that’s why I’m happy at school.

T: I’m glad to hear that! Thank you! The next project is about your free time.

P6: My group and I liked the project on free time. We tried to analyse my classmates’ activities. Firstly, we have made up a questionnaire. Secondly, we asked our classmates to answer 10 questions. Students were interviewed about their activities. Listen to one of the interviews. Then the results were brought back to the group. Finally, we have made the graphs. Here they are. We have 10 activities on our list. They are:

 (учащийся комментирует данные своего исследования).

Going out with friends is the most popular.

Chattering and discussing the last news is more popular with the girls.

Idling about is preferred by boys.

Opponent: Have you got any recommendations?

P6: Yes, we’d like our classmates to pay attention to their likes and dislikes. It’s in our hands, after all, to make our lives more interesting. Devote your free time to some exciting and useful hobbies, but don’t just idle about, hang around street corners and do nothing.

Opponent: What is your hobby, by the way?

P6: As for me, (I’m fond of …I’m interested in …My hobby is…)

Opponent: All teenagers want to have enough pocket money, don’t they?

P6: Of course, they do. I’m sure that all teenagers want to have a lot of money to dress well, to go to discos, to buy books, disks, etc. They have to earn money. I think it’s possible to do it. Some boys wash cars, the others sell newspapers and so on.

T: Good job! I knew you could do it! The topic of free time is connected with that of smoking, drugs and alcohol, isn’t it? What is your attitude to them? Yulya is the leader of the next group. (Презентация проекта сопровождается демонстрацией слайдов на интерактивной доске).

P7: To my mind, the problem is very actual for teenagers. As is known, there are many temptations now, such as: alcohol, drugs, cigarette. Moreover, it isn’t so easy to manage them, especially for teenagers, whose psychology isn’t stable enough.

There are a lot of reasons, as teenagers think, to use all these things. Some of them try to look cool guys, others just want to use something new and modern, I think. As is known, teenagers start taking drugs or smoking when they have no hobby or something interesting to do.

We must remember: smoking is very dangerous for our health. Research shows that each cigarette knocks five minutes off your life. It kills 50 000 people a year.

As for the drugs, it’s one of the greatest problems of the 21^st century. If some of your friends take drugs, it’s better for him to tell his parents about it to save his life. He will be helped I’m sure. Or after a month or a year your best friend may die.

To sum it up, stop in time! Think about your future! That is not for you!

T: Well done! You are the 9^th formers now. It’s time to present the project "Choosing a job”.

P8: We are going to have examinations this year. Therefore the question what to do after the exams is very important for my classmates. Many roads are open before us: technical schools, colleges, we may go to work or stay at school and go to the tenth Form.

Our group has made the graphs.

The first one shows my classmates’ plans for the nearest future. There are 27 students in our class.

59 % of them are going to continue studying at school (in the 10^th Form)

11 % want to enter a college,

30 % want to enter a technical school.

Opponent: And what group are you going to join?

P8: As for me, I haven’t decided yet. But we still have time to think and to choose.

T: And what is your second graph about?

P9: May I explain it?

We can find information about jobs at a number of different places. For example, we have a Job centre at our school. There is a lot of information about any job here. Our careers teacher Marina Sergeyevna arranges visits to factories, offices and colleges, invites people from local organizations to come to our school to talk to the students. Parents and friends also play a very important role in our choices.

The second graph shows who or what has helped us to do the choice:

parents helped to choose a profession to 74 % of my classmates,

Job centre and careers teachers – to 15 %,

friends – to 11 % of students.

Opponent: Who helped you to do the choice?

P10: One more problem is to get good education. It’s necessary to pay for a good education. I can’t enter the Institute without good knowledge.

Our third graph shows my classmates’ results (knowledge) in marks in the first term:

7 % have excellent results,

22 % have good knowledge,

30 % have got fair marks.

I think we have to study hard to have good knowledge and to fulfil our dreams.

Opponent: What is your dream, by the way?

                  Have you good marks in all subjects?

P10: I’ve got good marks but I try to study better and to have very good knowledge.

T: Good of you! These are our projects today. Whose do you like best and why?

P11: I like the project on … because it’s the most interesting (exciting, emotional). I’m fond of its computer presentation (photos, posters, graphs, funny illustrations).

P12: To my mind, our project is the best because we’ve prepared more carefully for it.

IV. Подведение итогов. Завершение урока.

T: As for me, I’m pleased with all your projects today. You’ve worked really hard. I give you only very good and good marks. Your home assignment is to answer the questions about your project work. We’ll analyse it at our next lesson.

And now I hope that our conversation about teenage life and problems as well as your advice will help you to survive in our difficult life, to overcome difficulties and to get on with all people around you.

You are free now. See you later.