Путеводитель по журналу "Сообщество учителей английского языка"

Это виртуальное путешествие по интерактивному научно-методическому журналу "Сообщество учителей английского языка". Возможности и перспективы для инициативных педагогов, которые могут принять активное участие в обсуждении публикуемых материалов.

http://youtu.be/03cV2JyPs9Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03cV2JyPs9Y&feature=youtu.be

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Этот видеоурок рассказывает о некоторых лексических различиях в американском и британском вариантах английского языка.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8UtURUpvt4

Рефлексия

Рефлексия

Безусловно, создание собственного подкаста – достаточно трудоемкий процесс для учителя (особенно если сталкиваешься впервые с программой Podcast). Надо отобрать аудиотексты в соответствии с возрастными особенностями и уровнем языковой подготовки учащихся той или иной учебной группы, разработать систему упражнений на дотекстовом этапе (снятие лексико-грамматических трудностей, знакомство с безэквивалентной лексикой и лингвострановедческой информацией, актуализация знаний учащихся (возможно, осуществление межпредметных связей). Но, с другой стороны, затраченное время и усилия окупятся сполна, т.к. это очень полезный дополнительный образовательный ресурс для учащихся, которые готовятся к сдаче экзамена по иностранному языку.
Не секрет, если в группе, где работает учитель, только 2-3 ученика выбирают ГИА или ЕГЭ по английскому языку, то, конечно, учителю-предметнику не хватает учебного времени для совершенствования навыков восприятия речи на слух в учебное время.
Преимущества использования подкастов:
 учащиеся могут выполнять задания к аудиотекстам самостоятельно, дома, в удобное для них время;
 в случае необходимости они могут прокрутить запись несколько раз (учебное аудирование);
 дополнительные задания к тексту, разработанные учителем (на дотекстовом этапе) позволяют учащимся прогнозировать содержание аудиозаписи и точнее понять информацию, содержащуюся в ней;
 учитель может разместить подробные инструкции по выполнению заданий разной степени сложности на русском языке, чтобы учащиеся были готовы психологически к выполнению заданий в формате ГИА и ЕГЭ;
 предлагаемые ключи к выполнению заданий обеспечивают учащимся возможность осуществления самоконтроля и рефлексии своей деятельности (учащиеся могут самостоятельно провести анализ допущенных ошибок или воспользоваться печатной основой с текстом аудиозаписи);
 учитель может постоянно обновлять содержание подкаста, дополняя его новыми аудиотекстами, и использовать их для совершенствования аудитивных навыков 2-3 года подряд с учащимися разных параллелей.
Использование компьютера, мультимедийность и креативность подкастов, несомненно, повышают мотивацию учащихся к изучению английского языка в целом.

Аудирование. Подготовка к ЕГЭ. Часть 3

Аудирование. Часть 3.

Задания A8 – A14 – с выбором правильного ответа из предложенных вариантов (множественный выбор). Высокий уровень – аудирование с полным пониманием прослушанного текста

About James Bond

• Pre-listening task
1. To begin with, let’s make up the mind-map ( = a spidergram). So, which words come to your mind, students, when you hear the name ‘James Bond’:











Some other words (which can occur to students): fan clubs, my childhood, cool! pleasure, etc

Now, look at the blackboard, read and try to understand the meaning of the following expressions:
- to comprehend = to understand
- to figure out = to discover, to find
- to hold conventions = meetings, conferences
- to move on = to become grown up enough
- to be engaged = to be interested in smth
- huge = great, big


• While-listening task
Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях А8 – А14 обведите цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды. У вас есть 50 секунд, чтобы ознакомиться с заданиями.

А8. Raymond began to understand the real value of James Bond books after
4) getting a chance to read them all.
5) seeing his first Bond movie.
6) reading them for the second time.

A9. Thanks to the Internet, today's Bond fans
1) have become much more united than they used to be.
4) can publish more magazines about Bond.
5) hold conventions devoted to Bond more frequently.

A10. Raymond is still a Bond fan, but now he
1) doesn't like new Bond movies. .
2) writes fewer articles about Bond.
3) has a wider sphere of interests.

A11. Raymond believes that Ian Fleming would have
1) liked recent Bond movies if he had seen them,
2) been surprised at a long-term success of Bond series.
3) enjoyed the way James Bond is portrayed now.

A12. According to Raymond, books and films about spies will
4) be interesting only to Bond fans.
5) only be associated with the cold war.
6) 3) always be attractive to people.

A13. Now that Raymond has stopped writing about Bond he
4) still has enough money not to work anymore.
5) has an opportunity to travel the world.
6) feels that he has got rid of great pressure.

A14. Raymond's advice to the next Bond writer is to
1) look through all Bond websites.
2) get ready for some really hard work.
3) understand what Bond fans want.

Tapescript

Вы услышите интервью. В заданиях А8 – А14 обведите цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному вами варианту ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды. У вас есть 50 секунд, чтобы ознакомиться с заданиями.
Now we are ready to start.
Int: You probably have heard about Ian Fleming, who was the first to create the famous spy James Bond. Another writer, Raymond Benson, continued Fleming's book series about Bond. Now Raymond has retired from writing Bond books, but is willing to share his experience. So, Raymond, when did you first start reading Ian Fleming's novels about James Bond?
Raymond Benson: I first saw one of the James Bond movies, "Goldfinger", in the cinema when I was 9 years old and I was blown away. I immediately started reading whatever Bond books I could get my hands on. By the time I was 11 I had read them all even though I was too young at the time to fully comprehend them. I re-read them again around the time I was in high school, and that's when I figured out what was so good about these books and I've re-read them several times since.
Int: You've been involved in the Bond fan community for a long time. How has it changed over the years?
RB: The Internet has changed it in many ways. Back in the 70s and 80s, there wasn't a whole lot that could bring fans together and that's the thing the Internet has done for them. In the past there were only fan clubs that published Bond magazines and some of the bigger cities held conventions where fans could meet each other more or less frequently. Now that the fans have the Internet they have created millions of Bond websites.
Int: Are you still a Bond fan?
RB: Of course! But it's different now. I will still see the films as they come out and probably read the books if and when they are published. But the days of me writing articles about Bond are gone. I like to think I've moved on. There are plenty of other things that keep me engaged. I'm a huge fan of many different things, from various types of music and films to other authors and genres.
Int: Do you think Ian himself would have found the popularity of the series unexpected?
RB: Yes. He didn't think they would last so long. Unfortunately, he only saw the first two films and never got to enjoy the huge success that Bond brought others. As he once said, 'It's all been such a joke.' However, I don't think he would have appreciated the way James Bond is portrayed now, the way they've made him more politically correct, a 'nicer' guy, so to speak.
Int: Although the era of the cold war is over and spies are slowly becoming a thing of the past, do you think the public will ever lose an interest in James Bond?
RB: They don't show any sign of doing so. The same can be said concerning fiction and movies about spies in general. You see, spies are not necessarily linked to the cold war – we had spies in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and we have spies today. Spies will never be a thing of the past. There will always be something for Bond to do.
Int: How does it feel not to be writing Bond now? What have you been doing with yourself in the past two years?
RB: Well, for seven years the job gave me the opportunity to travel the world, meet lots of people, and get my name into the publishing world. The income wasn't what people sometimes think it was. You'd be surprised how many people automatically assume I was making millions of dollars. But I made the same amount of money as I would have made at an office job. Now that it's over, I have to find ways to supplement the writing income. There are days when I miss the job, but overall I'm relieved not to have that Bond thing hanging over me.
Int: Do you have any advice for the next writer, whoever it may be?
RB: Make sure you've got a thick skin and stay away from Bond websites! Don't get me wrong, the fans are very valuable to the Bond industry and I say God bless them all – even the ones that didn't like my work. I certainly didn't expect everyone to. One must understand that it's a much tougher job than it seems. The pressure to produce on a timely basis is immense. It's a balancing act between pleasing the publishers, the readers and pleasing oneself.
You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 seconds.)
Now you will hear the text again. (Repeat.)
This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.)
This is the end of the Listening Test.


Keys:

A8 – 3 A12 – 3
A9 – 1 A13 – 3
A10 – 3 A14 – 2
A11 – 2

Аудирование. Подготовка к ЕГЭ. Часть 2

Аудирование. Часть 2.

Задания А1 – А7 – с выбором ответа из предложенных вариантов (верно, неверно, не было указано в тексте). Повышенный уровень – аудирование с извлечением необходимой (запрашиваемой) информации.

Mike’s family

• Pre-listening stage
1. Read some Proper Names, which are difficult to pronounce.
Canada
Montreal
Quebec Liverpool
Cathay Pacific airline
Osaka
McGill University

2. (Prediction) Well, look at all these expressions carefully. Try to guess in what way they can be connected with Mike’s father and mother.
… spent his childhood …
… first met …
... got married …, etc.

• While-listening task
3. Listen to the text for the first time and see whether your guesses were right or wrong. You may take some notes while listening.
4. (Selective translation) Mike says that his sister and he are definitely quite different. Will you translate the following extract: I was a rebellious type. I pretty much laid the foundation for my sister to get all the freedoms that she has – Mum and Dad treat her differently now. But she doesn’t appreciate any of those things. Is this situation typical when parents treat elder and younger children differently? Why do you think so?
5. Listen to the interview with Mike and choose the right variant to questions A1 – A7 – True, False or Not Stated.

Tapescript

Вы услышите интервью. Определите; какие из приведённых утверждений А1 – А7 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not Stated). Обведите номер выбранного вами варианта ответа. Вы услышите запись дважды, У вас есть 20 секунд, чтобы ознакомиться с заданиями.
Now we are ready to start.
Interviewer: So Mike, you mentioned your family, do you have a big family?
Mike: No, I have a fairly small family, actually, including me there are only four people in my family.
Int: So it's your mother, your father, you...
Mike: And my sister.
Int: Oh, and your sister. OK, is your sister younger or older than you?
Mike: She's younger. She's just started university actually.
Int: OK, that's nice. So where does your family live right now?
Mike: Ah, my mother and my father live in Victoria in Canada and my sister is on the other side of Canada in Montreal in Quebec and I live in the capital.
Int: Well, tell me about your father. What's your father like?
Mike: My father is pretty much the most interesting person I know. He tells different kinds of stories about his childhood, and his growing up.
Int: Did he grow up in Canada?
Mike: No, he grew up in Liverpool, in England.
Int: OK, nice, and what does your father do?
Mike: Ah, he was a pilot until five years ago. It was kind of tragic, he had a heart attack and he wasn't allowed to fly anymore.
Int: Oh, I'm sorry.
Mike: He's fine now, yeah.
Int: OK, what about your mother? Does she work?
Mike: No, she doesn't. She used to work. They both worked for Cathay Pacific airline. My mother was a stewardess and my father was a pilot. She was first introduced to him as a new member of the crew when they flew together to Osaka.
Int: Oh, what a story. OK and what about your sister? You said that she's a student.
Mike: She's a student. She's in her first year in McGill University which is in Quebec. I haven't spoken to her lately so I don't know how she's doing.
Int: So you and your sister, are you similar or quite different?
Mike: Oh, we are definitely quite different.
Int: How so?
Mike: I was a rebellious type. I pretty much laid the foundation for my sister to get all the freedoms that she has – Mum and Dad treat her differently now. But she doesn't appreciate any of those things. Another way that we're different is that she's really into arts and drawing and painting and making music whereas I'm more into the technical side of things, like computer making, fixing cars.
Int: So it sounds like you are quite different. Well, maybe she'll listen to this and she'll appreciate you more.
Mike: I hope so.
You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 se¬conds.)
Now you will hear the text again. (Repeat.) This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.)


Keys:

A1 – 3 (not stated) A5 – 2 (false)
A2 – 1 (true) A6 – 1 (true)
A3 – 3 (not stated) A7 – 2 (false)
A4 – 1 (true)

Аудирование. Подготовка к ЕГЭ. Часть 1

Аудирование. Часть 1.

Задание Б1 – на установление соответствия. Базовый уровень – аудирование с пониманием основного содержания

Schooling

• Pre-listening task
1. Answer the questions:
a) What types of schools are there in Great Britain?
b) What schools are supported by the government?
c) What do parents have to pay for if the child goes to a private school?
d) Do students have equal opportunities if they attend state and private schools?

2. Complete the table ‘Pros and cons of state and private schools’
state schools private schools’
 rather old buildings
 problems with discipline  smaller classes
 well-equipped classrooms, etc.

• While-listening task
You will hear six people talking about schooling. Match each speaker A-F with one of the statements from the list 1-7. Use each number only once. There is one extra statement which you don’t need to use. You will hear the recording twice. Put down your answers into the table.
Вы услышите 6 высказываний. Установите соответствие между высказываниями каждого говорящего А – F и утверждениями, данными в списке 1 – 7. Используйте каждое утверждение, обозначенное соответствующей цифрой, только один раз. В задании есть одно лишнее утверждение. Вы услышите запись дважды. Занесите свои ответы в таблицу.
1. The speaker feels unhappy about changes in her/his former classmates.
2. The speaker thinks that uniforms give students a tidier look.
3. The speaker is unhappy with his rich classmates’ attitude to expensive gifts.
4. The speaker says that his school building is inconvenient because of its size.
5. The speaker says that students prefer casual clothes to school uniform.
6. The speaker thinks it depends on the person what type of school is better for her/him.
7. The speaker thinks private school gives better opportunities to study different subjects.

Говорящий A В С D E F
Утверждение



Tapescript

You will hear six people talking about schooling. Match each speaker A-F with one of the statements from the list 1-7. Use each number only once. There is one extra statement which you don’t need to use. You will hear the recording twice. Put down your answers into the table.

Speaker A
All my friends from private school are snobbish now because they moved from the state school I go to. I don't understand why everyone thinks private schools are better. I'm not saying I have anything against private schools, but it does make me a bit upset when I see all the people that used to go to state school acting snobbish because of a silly little thing like having more lessons in biology, physics and chemistry than I have in my school.
Speaker В
I hated my state school that I went to when I was younger. But don't get me wrong, I have nothing against state schools in general. I know I was just unlucky. My brother and sister stayed at a state school right up until their final exams. They both got really good grades, which proves that private school education isn't better for everyone. As for me, I found that people were friendlier in my private school, and I felt a lot happier. I know this is not always the case, because my brother and sister enjoyed going to the state school.
Speaker С
Well, I would like to say, I go to a private school and I was shocked at how much some people take for granted. One of my classmates got a plasma screen TV for her birthday and a laptop for Christmas, and she just spoke about them as if they were ordinary presents, nothing special. It's not that there's anything wrong with it, just sometimes if you have a lot of money, it is important to remember that you are lucky, because some families are so poor that they have no money to buy a TV-set in the sales.
Speaker D
A lot of people who go to my private school are not that rich at all. My parents just wanted the best education for me and this school was the right choice. Smaller classes are much better, I found this from my own experience. Here we do separate sciences and I think it allows people to understand which sciences they like and see which they are good at. You can also study physics, chemistry and biology in much more detail as well as languages, history and so on.
Speaker E
I go to private school, and we have to wear a uniform and I know why we have to have it. If the people in my school didn't have to wear it then they would come to school in too short skirts or torn trousers. And you always get the people who can come into school and look almost like Halloween, with make up running down their faces and chains hanging off every place. Not the right things to wear to school I think. School uniform disciplines pupils and makes them look nice and clean.
Speaker F
I go to a busy city centre school, I think there are about 1100 pupils and about 120 teachers. The corridors are really narrow in some of the buildings and there are crowds of pupils running and pushing when the bell goes and everyone is there. One of the corridors is so narrow that we have a 'one way system'. The school definitely needs broader corridors as well as larger classrooms.
You have 15 seconds to complete the task. (Pause 15 seconds.)
Now you will hear the texts again. (Repeat.) This is the end of the task. You now have 15 seconds to check your answers. (Pause 15 seconds.)


Keys:

Говорящий A В С D E F
Утверждение
1 6 3 7 2 4