Topic: Love is Life.
Learners: the 9-th grade students.
Aim: to develop Ss skills in reading, speaking, listening.
Purpose: to give Ss experience of designing their own ideas regarding the topic of discussion.
Objectives: by the end of the lesson students will be able:
To comprehend and produce necessary vocabulary for this topic
To identify main ideas and details from the text for reading and listening
To participate in common conversational exchange on the context of the text for listening and reading
To broaden student’s outlook.
Materials and equipment:
PC, photos of the text, pictures on the topic, video fragments, proverbs, sayings and quotations about love, exercise
1)”Complete each sentence with one of the endings”
2)”True or false”
3)”Fill gaps with the appropriate words”
4)A Strip Story “Romeo and Juliet”
Stages:
I Presentation “Love is Life”
II Warming up
T: I think you’ve already understood that we’re going to speak about extremely powerful feeling of Love.
Read what other people say about this wonderful feeling and give your own definition.
Blackboard:
1) Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination (Voltaire)
2) Love is a game that two can play and both win (Eva Gabor)
3) Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life (Leo Bascaglia)
4) Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop (H. L. Mencken)
5) Love is the beauty of the soul (Saint Augustine)
6) Love is the poetry of the senses (Honore de Balzac)
7) Take away love and our earth is a tomb (Robert Browning)
Pupils’ definitions:
Love is a honey flower. Love is a gift.
Love is madness. Love is a battle.
We live to love. Love is magic.
Love makes the world go around.
III A Strip Story
And now I want you to name the most famous love couples. Match them:
Hamlet Laura
Samson Juliet
Anthony Delilah
Othello Beatrice
Paris Desdemona
Petrarka Queen of Sheba
King Solomon Helena
Dante Ophelia
Romeo Cleopatra
Conversation.
T: a)Have you read a romantic tragedy “Romeo and Juliet”.
b)Who wrote it?
c)What is this tragedy about? (about two rich families the Capulets and the Montagues, about their quarrel, about great love of their children)
d) “Romeo and Juliet” relevant today?
3) A Strip Story.
T: Make the mixed strips in logical order, read and retell the summary of the text.
In the town of Verona, in Italy, there were two rich families, the Capulets and the Montagues.
In the family of the Capulets there was a daughter, Juliet. She was 14 years old.
In the family of the Montagues there was a son, who was 16.
There was an old quarrel between those two families.
But young people fell in love with each other.
Romeo asked Juliet to marry him.
They married secretly with the help of an old friar, Friar Lawrence.
But Juliet father wanted her to marry a young man Paris.
Juliet did not known what to do.
So she went to Friar Lawrence foe help.
He gave her some medicine which would put her to sleep for 42 hours.
Juliet took the medicine.
When her mother came into the room, Juliet lay on her bed.
Juliet’s mother thought her daughter was dead.
They put into family tomb. Romeo heard that Juliet was dead and he drank poison on Juliet’s tomb and died.
When Juliet woke up she saw dead Romeo, took a dagger and killed herself.
T: Which group will be the first to make up a Strip Story?
IV “Love is Life”. Your hometask was to read this text to learn more about love from the point of view of scientists and psychologists. Let’s check up.
Practising vocabulary
1.fondness- нежность, любовь
2.essence- сущность
3.consistently- последовательно
4.release- освобождать, выпускать
5.heart rate- сердцебиение
6.tenderness- нежность
7.affection- привязанность, любовь
8.indicate- показывать, указывать
9.resemble- походить, иметь сходство
10.deactivate- деактивировать, противоположное значение
11.judgment- заключение, мнение
12.forgive- прощать
13.responsibility- ответственность
14.sincerity- искренность
15.mutual- обоюдный, взаимный
16.confidence- доверие
17.doubt- сомнение
18.jealousy- ревность
Complete each sentence (A-E) with one of the endings (1-5).
A. Love is a mixture of
B. Scientists affirm that love
C. Passion which characterizes the first stage of love
D. Studies have also indicated that brain scans of people who are in love
E. People who are truly in love and who have been together for years don’t grow apart but
1.draw closer to one another
2.disappears with the passing of time
3.resemble to those with a mental illness
4.complex and extremely powerful feelings
5.has a chemical basis
3 Fill in: judgments, jealousy, fondness, essence, sincerity.
1.The dictionary defines love as a strong feeling of __________ for another person. (fondness)
2.A great number of scientists have been trying to understand the __________ of love. (essence)
3.People in love are often unable to make critical __________ .(judgments)
4. __________ and mutual understanding form emotional closeness. (sincerity)
5. If people are in true love there is no room for doubt and __________ . (jealousy)
4 Answer the questions:
What do scientists say about the essence of love?
What are the symptoms of love?
Why can’t we say that passion and love are synonyms?
Why do people who are in love often seem to be mad?
What is the secret of long-term relationships?
5 Agree or disagree with the following statements. Explain your point of view.
Love is just chemistry.
We often look at our partner through rose-coloured spectacles.
Love can’t last forever.
V Now recite your favourite poem about love and analyze the poet’s attitude to love.
“O, my Love’s like a red, red rose”- by Robert Burns.
My Love’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June:
O, my love’s like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I:
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till all the seas gang dry:
Till all the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt with the sun;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands of life shall run.
And fare thee well, my only Love!
And fare thee well a while!
And I will come again, my Love,
Though it were ten thousand mile.
by Robert Burns
Sonnet №116 – by William Shakespeare
О, как любовь мой изменила глаз!
Расходится с действительностью зренье.
Или настолько разум мой угас,
Что отрицает зримые явленья?
Коль хорошо, что нравится глазам,
То как же мир со мною не согласен?
А если нет, -признать я должен сам,
Что взор любви неверен и неясен.
Кто прав: весь мир иль мой влюбленный взор?
Но любящим .смотреть мешают слезы.
Подчас и солнце слепнет до тех пор,
Пока все небо не омоют грозы.
Любовь хитра, - нужны ей слез ручьи,
Чтоб утаить от глаз грехи свои!
С. Маршак
3. Sonnet 90+Alla Pugacheva’s version
Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now
Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross,
Join with the spite of Fortune, make me bow,
And do not drop in for an after-loss.
Ah do not, when my heart has ’scaped this sorrow,
Come in the rearward of a conquered woe;
Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,
To linger out a purposed overthrow.
If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come; so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compared with loss of thee, will not seem so.
Уж если ты разлюбишь - так теперь,
Теперь, когда весь мир со мной в раздоре.
Будь самой горькой из моих потерь,
Но только не последней каплей горя!
И если скорбь дано мне превозмочь,
Не наноси удара из засады.
Пусть бурная не разрешится ночь
Дождливым утром - утром без отрады.
Оставь меня, но не в последний миг,
Когда от мелких бед я ослабею.
Оставь сейчас, чтоб сразу я постиг,
Что это горе всех невзгод больнее,
Что нет невзгод, а есть одна беда -
Твоей любви лишиться навсегда.
С. Маршак
4. Sonnet 23+Russian variant by S.Y. Marshak
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments; love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no, it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his heighth be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Мешать соединенью двух сердец
Я не намерен. Может ли измена
Любви безмерной положить конец?
Любовь не знает убыли и тлена.
Любовь - над бурей поднятый маяк,
Не меркнущий во мраке и тумане.
Любовь - звезда, которою моряк
Определяет место в океане.
Любовь - не кукла жалкая в руках
У времени, стирающего розы
На пламенных устах и на щеках,
И не страшны ей времени угрозы.
А если я не прав и лжет мой стих,-
То нет любви - и нет стихов моих!
5.Teacher: We have already said that love is a major theme in literature, music, poetry cinematography.
Do you like watching romantic films? –Yes, we do.
I want to remind you the film about a rich girl and a poor boy who meet on the first and last voyage of a ship. It is a beautiful but sad film. What is the name of the film? –Yes, “Titanic”. And now our former pupil sing a great song from this film.
VI Summarizing
H.T. –learn poem “My love’s like a red, rad rose”
Marks
