Visit to museums In the museum
Go to the school Assembly area in the Basement where you can leave coats and bags and organize your party into small groups of 10.
Ask for your activity sheets or tour, if booked. A guide will join each group and begin the tour.
We offer a number of tours on special topics - Introductory tour.
Are the animals real? Where do they come from? How do you get them? This tour is ideal for children visiting a museum for the first time.
The tour aims to show how the Museum collects, looks after and displays the natural history materials in its care.
Birds. This tour provides an introduction to bird life, and investigates bird characteristics, nests, eggs and a variety of birds from across the world.
Young animals. This tour looks in depth at different life cycles, and at how parental care affects a young animal's chances of survival.
Mammals. Your class will visit a number of the Museum's galleries on this tour. They will discover what mammals are and how they are adapted to living in a variety of habitats throughout the world.
Life in the sea. A tour in which your children can explore animals and plants from many of the world's oceans from the coasts to the ocean depths.
Activity sheets link with concepts and skills that are part of the National curriculum. The aim of the sheets is to structure the pupils' learning and aid the interpretation of the exhibitions.
VOCABULARY
to investigate- зерттеу
nest-ұя
term - семестр
throughout the world — бүкіл дүние жүзі бойынша
birds-құстар
animals-андар
life-өмір
sea-теңіз
museum-мұражай
Questions:
Have you ever been to a museum?
What kind of museum was it?
Have you got a collection of paintings or drawings?
What famous art galleries abroad do you know?
Make up a dialogue on theme: "Visit to museum"
AT THE CUSTOMS Customs Officer: Good afternoon, Madam. Can I see your passport, please?
Traveler: Yes, of course. Here you are.
Customs Officer: Is that suitcase yours?
Traveler: Yes, it is.
Customs Officer: Could you put your suitcase on the table?
Traveler: Certainly, here is the key.
Customs Officer: Can you open your suitcase for me?
Traveler: Yes, of course.
Customs Officer: have you got anything to declare?
Traveler: No, nothing special.
Custom Officer: Let me see... That's all right. Thank you i every much, Madam. You can close your suitcase now. Goodbye. | Traveler: Good-bye.
Vocabulary
customs-кеден
passport-төлқұжат
suitcase-чемодан
to open-aiuy
to close-жабу
кеу-кілт
Task:
Describe a journey you have made.
Read the questions and describe the situations:
Have you ever met anybody at the station? Where was he (she) coming from?
2. What question did you ask him (her) about his her trip? What did he (she) answer?
TRAVELLING
Since ancient times there wei people who couldn't live for a lo time in one place. Their cherished с sire was to travel, because they want to trade with different countries or j see new far away places. Those, w, wish to travel, either for pleasure or business, have at their disposal various means of transport, instance, bicycles, motorcycles, motor-cars, boats, ships, ae planes, helicopters and others.
Some people prefer to make a journey in a car. It's es cially pleasant if the road is straight and smooth. You can set when you like, stop when and where you have a mind to and joy delightful spots rarely visited by other travellers.
Travelling by air is becoming more popular. Through it's expensive but it's the quickest means of transport. And if it is a good airliner you will hit few air-pockets and won't be airsick at all. The speed of sea liners, is good deal slower than that of planes. But when the holiday season is in full swing it's next to impossi to get accommodation on a liner.
If you are not much of a sailor you may get sea-sick in rough sea. But when the weather is fine and the sea is as smooi as glass your voyage will be wonderful. Most people go
train and consider it to be chei and more convenient.
First we try to buy tickets b forehand (in advance) and if nc we have to stand in (a) line at tl booking office to buy a ticket hour before the train arrives.
As a rule I buy a 2-nd class ticket. I pack my things, take suitcases, bags, (trunks, rucksacks) and go to the railway station where I find the platform, train and my car (carriage). I like to travel light but oftener I have a lot of luggage. When it is heavy I ask a porter to see to it. In a second-class sleeper we find our compartment and the porter puts the luggage on the rack and under the seat.
It doesn't matter if I have an upper or lower birth. I get bedding at once and look out of the window to wave good-bye to my friends who come to see me off.
Those who haven't bought anything to read, choose magazines, newspapers for the journey at the bookstalls.
When the train starts off I have a with my fellow passengers, have tea, a hasty meal or just look through the newspapers. Through travelling by train is not boring I am always glad when we reach our place of destination.
VOCABULARY
boat-қайық
ship-кеме
travelling-саяхат
expensive-қымбат
season-мезгіл
to try-тырысу
to buy-сатып any
ticket-билет
to travel-саяхаттау
luggage-жол жүгі - ■•
to ask-сұрау
to find-табу
magazine-журнал
passenger-жолаушы
Questions:
1. Do you like travelling?
2. Which is the best way of travelling? Why do you think so?
3. What are the advantages of travelling by train?
4. Which takes more time, to travel by car or by train?
5. What do you enjoy most of all while travelling?
6. Have you travelled anywhere this year?
7. Where did you go? How did you travel?
8. What place of interest will you visit if you go to the United States?
Choose a partner and talk to him/her about the text "Travelling " :
POPULATION OF THE USA AND THE UK Population of the USA
The population of the United States is the third largest in the world (after India and China). There are over 250 million people living in the United States today. Who are these people? The famous American poet of the 19th century Walt Whitman said that the United States "is not merely a nation, but a nation of nations". People from around the world have come to the United States and influenced its history and culture.
Population of the UK
The population of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is nearly 59 million people. The population lives mostly in towns and cities and their suburbs. Four out of every five people live in towns.
The distribution of the population is rather uneven. Over 48.8 million people live in England, over 3 million in Wales, a little over 5 million in Scotland and about 1.5 million in Northern Ireland.
Greater London, the south and the southeast are the most densely populated areas. London's population is nearly 7 mil-Гоп. Most of the mountainous parts of the UK including much of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Pennine Chain in northern England are very sparsely populated.
The UK is inhabited by the English, the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish who constitute the British nation. The British are the descendants of different people who settled in the British Isles at Different times.
The earliest known people of Britain were of Iberian origin. Then followed a long succession of invaders including the Celts, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the Danes and at last in 1066 the Normans. It was the last time Britain was invaded.
Now there are also many people of all colours and races in the UK. These are mostly former inhabitants of the former British colonies. These people, called 'the coloureds', came to the UK in search of better living standards.
English is the official language of the UK. Besides standard literary English there are many regional and social dialects. A well-known example is the cockney of East Londoners. The Scottish and Irish forms of Gaelic survive in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.
Wales is officially bilingual, Welsh is spoken by about a fifth of its population. Welsh is the first language in most of the western countries of Wales and least formally has the same status as English. Nowadays there is a growing movement in Wales and Scotland for a revival of national culture and languages.