Заняття 1

Тема: “Географічне положення Сполучених Штатів Америки.”

Вид заняття: лекція

Мета: надання корисної інформації по темі, практикування навичок розуміння тексту на слух, розуміння основної інфомації під час читання тексту, ознайомлення з новою лексикою по темі, практикування навичок з граматики; розвиток логічного мислення, пам’яті; вихованння почуття поваги до історії англомовної країни.

Обладнання: дошка, книги, картки з завданнями по граматиці, карта США, аудіозапис, магнітофон.

Література: О.Литвинюк “Bright English”, “Digest for English learners`” (журнал), “200 тем з англійської мови”

Хід уроку:

1. Вступ.Організаційний момент. Повідомлення теми та мети уроку.

Dear students, today we are going to speak about the USA, you’ll have the possibility to learn some interesting and useful facts about one more English-speaking country, to find out something special and peculiar in culture, in the way of living and history.

2. Повідомлення теми.

• Читання слів:

The Pacific Ocean [ pə`sıfık `ouʃn]; the Gulf of Mexico [`gʌlf əv `meksıkou]; the Rio Grande River [`rı:ou `grændı `rıvə]; the Appalachian Mountains [ֻæpə`leıʧjən `mauntınz]; Columbia [kə`lʌmbıə]; Alaska [ə`læskə]; the Cordillera [ֻko:dı`ljεərə]; Asia [`eıʃə]; Hawaii [hα:`waıi:]; prairie [`prεərı]; the Saint Lawrence River [snt `lorəns `rıvə]; the Colorado [ֻkolə`rα:dou].

• Введення нової лексики:

1. district – округ;

2. gulf – затока;

3. valley – долина;

4. halfway – напівдорозі;

5. to flow into – впадати в...;

6. to join – з’єднувати;

7. different – різний, різноманітний.

• Читання тексту:

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: GEOGRAPHY AND CLIMATE

The USA is a federal republic of fifty states and the District of Columbia. The USA is situated in the central part of the North American continent. Its western coast is washed by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.

The USA is separated from Canada in the north by the Great Lakes. The USA is separated from Mexico in the south by the Rio Grande River. The state of Alaska is separated from the USA by Canada. Its western coast is only 80 kilometres from Russia. Hawaii, the fiftieth state, is in the Pacific Ocean, halfway between the continents of America and Asia.

The total area of the USA is over 9 million square kilometres. The continental part of the USA consists of two highland regions and two lowland regions. The highlands are the Appalachian Mountains in the east and the Cordillera in the west.

Between the Cordillera and the Appalachian Mountains are the central lowlands, which are called the prairie. The eastern lowlands are called the Mississippi valley.

The five Great Lakes, between the USA and Canada, are joined together by short rivers or canals, to the Atlantic Ocean by the Saint Lawrence River, and to the Hudson River by a canal. In the west of the USA there is another lake called the Great Salt Lake.

The main rivers of the USA are the Mississippi, the longest river in the world (7,330 km), which flows into the Gulf of Mexico, the Colorado and the Columbia, which flow into the Pacific Ocean, and the Hudson River, which flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

The climate is different in the USA. The coldest climate is in the north of the country (40 degrees below zero) in winter. The south has the subtropical climate with temperature 49 degrees above zero in summer.

• Відповіді на питання по тексту:

1. Where is the USA situated?

2. What separates the USA from Mexico?

3. What is the country washed by?

4. What is the total area of the USA?

5. What regions does the central part consist of?

6. How do we call the territory between the Cordillera and the Appalachian Mountains?

7. What are the principal rivers of the country?

8. What kind of climate has the USA?

• Робота по карті.

• Визначення географічних об’єктів на основі тексту.

1)

2) 7)

4)

6) 8)

3)

5)

A) The Gulf of Mexico; B) Alaska; C) Great Lakes; D) prairie; E) the Cordillera; F) the Appalachian Mountains; G) Hawaii; H) the Mississippi valley.