Блог вчителя англійської мови Коваль Тамари Петрівни: Learn plenty of foreign but don’t forget your own

Learn plenty of foreign but don’t forget your own

Objective: To activate lexical material on the topic , improve communication skills of

 listening, reading and analysis of text; mastering the language means to implement

foreign  language communication ; organize and synthesize the knowledge of students

about the  poet and artist Taras Shevchenko , his life and career , the importance of his

work to unite Ukrainian , raising national consciousness. Teach students to work in a

group and in pairs. Develop speech skills , critical thinking and creativity of students

the ability to apply knowledge in practice. Cultivate a positive attitude of students to

 learn English,  the interest to expand their knowledge, achieve success every situation

accomplice in the creative process and its maximum fulfillment.

Equipment : computer, multimedia presentation, cards with tasks.

Procedure

І. Introduction

1. Greeting. Reporting aims of the lesson.

T. Good morning! I’m glad to see you here. How do you feel? I’m sure you are ready for active work.

We study English and thanks to it we learn a lot about other countries, their people, history, traditions and culture. We can get a lot of knowledge thanks to English. To be a real personality and citizen of the world each of us should remember our own origin, nation and language. The motto of our today’s lesson is Taras Shevchenko’s words “Learn plenty of foreign, but don’t forget your own”. And today at our lesson we’re going to speak about Ukrainian literature and famous Ukrainian writers and poets.

II. Warming- up

1. Brain-storming.

T. What is literature? Express your point of view.

Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter).

Name the words that are connected with “literature”

ІІ. Main part

Vocabulary practice

T. Since Guttenberg invented the printing machine all people have enjoyed reading books and have been trying to compose their own pieces of literature. Thanks to those writers and poets, who developed literature, different kinds of it have emerged and the world got acquainted with various writers, their books, poems, plays and other literary works. You study at school and at your Literature lessons you were introduced to numerous literary genres.

Complete the sentences with the words

Poet, novelist, short-story writer, biographer, dramatist, scriptwriter, writer, playwright, journalist

1. A _________ is a person who writes novels.

2. A _________ is a person who writes poems.

3. A _________ is a person who writes plays.

4. A _________ is a person who writes biographies.

5. A _________ is a person who writes short stories.

6. A _________ is a person who writes prose.

7. A _________ is a person who writes drama and plays for the theatre, television and radio.

8. A _________ is a person who writes the words for movies, television and radio plays.

9. A _________ is a person who collects news and writes articles/stories for newspapers and magazines.

Key: 1) novelist; 2) poet; 3) playwright; 4) biographer; 5) short-story writer;

6) writer; 7) dramatist; 8) scriptwriter; 9) journalist.

T. Today you’ll learn more interesting facts about the life of the Ukrainian Bard.

Let’s start with the poetry of T. Shevchenko, who was true genius of Ukrainian Literature. The poetry of Taras Shevchenko was always been melodious and some of his works were set to music.

The words Shevchenko and Ukraine are indivistible. Every country has its customs, traditions, symbols, its history and prominent people. But the works, written by T. G. Shevchenko are well-known all over the world. Since old times the beauty of the Dnieper and its picturesque banks has attracted lots of travelers. It was extolled in folk songs and legends. The river Dnieper captivated the heart of the great poet. When T. G. Shevchenko travelled about Ukraine. An English and Ukrainian versions of «Реве та стогне Дніпр широкий» will be read by our pupils.

The wide Dnipro roars and moans,

An angry wind howls aloft.

It bends the tall willows down,

Lifting waves as high as mountains.

Реве та стогне Дніпр широкий,

Сердитий вітер завива,

Додолу верби гне високі,

Горами хвилю підійма.

T. G. Shevchenko dreamt of a house near Kaniv. He wanted to live there in his last years. But his dream didn’t come true. Long before his death he wrote of it in his testament.

MY TESTAMENT

When I am dead, bury me
In my beloved Ukraine,
My tomb upon a grave mound high
Amid the spreading plain,
So that the fields, the boundless steppes,
The Dnipro's plunging shore
My eyes could see, my ears could hear

The mighty river roar.

Заповiт

Як умру, то поховайте
Мене на могилі
Серед степу широкого
На Вкраїні милій,
Щоб лани широкополі,
І Дніпро, і кручі
Було видно, було чути,
Як реве ревучий.

A Dream

We fly… I look – the dawn arrives,

The sky’s edge bursts ablaze;

In shady glades the nightingales

Sing out the new sun’s praise.

The breezes softly, lightly wake

The steppe lands from their dreams;

In the lash valleys, by the lakes

The willows shimmer green.

Сон

Летим. Дивлюся, аж світає,

Край неба палає,

Соловейко в темнім гаї

Сонце зустрічає.

Тихесенько вітер віє,

Степи, лани мріють,

Меж ярами над ставами

Верби зеленіють.

It Doesn’t Touch Me…

It does not touch me, not a whit

If I live in Ukraine or no,

If men recall me, or forget,

Lost as I am, in foreign snow, -

Touches me not the slightest whit.

Captive, to manhood I have grown

In strangers’ homes, and by my own

Unmourned, a weeping captive still,

I’ll die, all that is mine, I will

Bear off; let not a trace remain

In our glorious Ukraine.

Мені однаково, чи буду…

Мені однаково, чи буду

Я жить в Україні, чи ні.

Чи хто згадає, чи забуде

Мене в снігу на чужині –

Однаковісінько мені.

В неволі виріс меж чужими,

І, не оплаканий своїми,

В неволі, плачучи, умру,

І все з собою заберу,

Малого сліду не покину

На нашій славній Україні,

На нашій – не своїй землі.

Work in pairs.

T. Imagine you meet Taras Shevchenko. What do you ask him?(Children work in pairs). Use new words from the text

2. Finish the sentences.

Taras Shevchenko is...He was born in...The most famous poem of Shevchenko is...“Testament” means...The name of Taras Shevchenko famous for...

The game "Microphone."
Imagine that I am a correspondent of the school radio. I want to interview you on "Biographical information on Shevchenko".
1. When and where was Shevchenko born?
2. What village did he spend his childhood in?
3. Who were the parents of Taras?
4. How old was Taras, when his mother died?
QUIZ: "And there'll be humans on the Earth" (Taras Shevchenko )

Dear children, you understood that our quiz is devoted to Taras Shevchenko who is the master - spirit among the greatest the Ukrainian people have given to the world.

An orphan, a serf from an indigent village lost in the Ukrainian steppes, where The Menology was the only book, Taras Shevchenko was able to enter national and world culture as an outstanding painter and engraver as one who had created hundreds of first-rate works of art.

Taras Shevchenko in his essence is a poet of friendship. Along with the call to revolt, a dream of a new and just world is heard in his famous Testament:

And in the great new family,

The family of the free,

With softy spoken, kindly world

Remember also me.

So children, let's start our quiz. There are two teams to participate: 'Talented Youth' and 'Young Patriots'.

Competition 1. Answer the questions:

1. When was T. Shevchenko born?

(in 1814)

2. What village was Taras born?

(in the village of Moryntsi)

3. Where did he spend his childhood?

(in the village of Kyrylivka)

4. What family was he born?

(in the family of a serf peasant)

5. When did Taras start drawing?

(being a child)

6. Why is the oak in Budishche called Taras oak?

(there is a legend that young Taras hid his drawings in that oak)

7. Wher did young Taras serve as a footboy?

(in the manor of his landlord Enhelhardt)

8. Who took Taras to Vilno and then to ST.Petersburg?

(his master Engelhardt)

9. In what place is there practically the only monument to young Taras?

(the settlement of Lysianka, Kyiv region)

10. Who bought Taras out of serfdom?

(a great Russian paiter Karl Briulov)

11. Where did Shevchenko study in ST.Petersburg?

(in Academy of Art )

12. Where did Shevchenko paint his famous scenes in St. Petersburg?

(in Litniy Sad-in Summer Garden)

13. How many years did Shevchenko spend in exile and Where?

(in Kasakhstan, Orenburg region)

14. What amazed Shevchenko in the town of Uman? This place is very popular with tourists now.

(Sofiyivka Dendropark)

15. What poems did Shevchenko devote to a difficult life of Ukrainian women?

(" Kateryna," Naimychka", "Dream")

16. What poem written by Shevchenko depicts the struggle of the Ukrainian people against Polish landlords?

( "Haidamaky")

17. What event from the history of Ukrianian movement for independence did he describe in the poem " Haidamaky"?

( Koliyivshchyna)

18. There is a well-known fact from Shevchenko’s biography when being a boy of six he left his native Kyrylivka in search of a place the sky rests against the earth. In what poem was this fact mentioned?

( in the poem " Kniagynia")

19. What book by an English author did he translate into Ukrainian?

(“Robinson Crusoe" by Denial Defoe)

20. Do you know the same name for the picture and the poem?

(“ Kateryna")

21. What Ukrainian region is called Shevchenko Land?

(Cherkassy Region)

22. What Shevchenko poem was translated into more than 100 languages?

(Testament)

23. There was hardly a book which had such significance for the Ukrainian people. Name it.

("Kobzar")

24. Where was T. Shevchenko buried?

( in Smolensky Cemetery in St. Petersburg)

25. How is T. Shevchenko homoured in Ukraine?

(there are a lot of monuments all over Ukraine, a lot of streets got his name, there is Shevchenko society in Lviv etc.)

26. Shevchenko's name is well known all over the world. Can you name countries where there are museums devoted to his life and literary works?

(Canada, Poland, Greece, Argentina, Belorus, France, Romania, Russia, Georgia, Kazahstan, Moldova, Uzbekystan, Lithuania, USA)

27. Listen to the part of Shevchenko poem and answer the question. Did Shevchenko's dreams come true? And who realised them?

When I am dead, then bury me

In my beloved Ukraine,

My tomb upon a grave mound high

Amid the spreading plain,

So that the fields, the boundless steppes,

The Dnieper's plunging shore

My eyes could see, my ears could hear

The mighty river roar.

( it's his famous Testament. Shevchenko wanted to be buried near Kaniv. His friends and relatives fulfilled his will to be buried in Ukraine. Thus, Chernecha Hill in Kaniv became his final resting place.)

28. What anniversary of his birthday are we going to celebrate in 2014?

(200th anniversary)

Competition 2. Find 5 names of Shevchenko’s famous works.