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14 Theme: Sports and Games in Students’ Life in Great Britain and Uzbekistan.
The technological schedule of the practical lesson
1. Time: 2 hours
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The number of students 12-15
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The form of the lesson
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Practical
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The plan of the lesson
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to learn new words
to do the tasks for consolidating the theme
to get to know the logical point of the learning chapter
to make conclusion
to give home task
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The aim of the lesson
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To improve their oral speech by doing speech practice, can use the new words, to know the grammar construction of the sentences
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Pedagogical tasks
analyzing the information from the previous lesson
working with new words
encourage them to speak English
doing the exercises:
lexical exercises, grammar exercises and speech practice
making conclusion
giving home task
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The results of reading passage:
they are able to answer the questions
analyze the prince’s troubles
can use them in their speech
they do tasks
they give their opinion
they put down the home task
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The methods of teaching
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Over viewing, oral asking, giving opinion.
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Teaching equipment
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Book, tape-recorder, projector.
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The form of teaching
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Group work
Pair work
Individual
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Teaching conditions
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Monitoring and assessing
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Oral and written assessments, tasks.
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Sport in the United Kingdom
Sport in the United Kingdom plays an important role in British culture. The United Kingdom has given birth to a range of major international sports including: football, rugby (union and league), cricket, netball, darts, golf, tennis, table tennis, badminton, squash, croquet, fives, bowls, modern rowing,[1] hockey, boxing, water polo, snooker, billiards, and curling.
This has meant that in the infancy of many sports, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland formed among the earliest separate governing bodies, national teams and domestic league competitions. After 1922 some sports formed separate bodies for Northern Ireland though some continued to be organised on an all-Ireland basis.
In a small number of sports, these teams are supplemented by high-profile events featuring a combined team representing one or more nations.
For information on sports in a British home nation you may wish, therefore, to consider reading the Sport in England, Sport in Scotland, Sport in Wales or Sport in Northern Ireland articles, or the Sport in Ireland article where appropriate.
Overall, association football attracts the most viewers and money though the nation is notable for the diversity of its sporting interests, especially at the elite level. Major individual sports include athletics, golf, cycling, motorsport, and horse racing. Tennis is the highest profile sport for the two weeks of the Wimbledon Championships, but otherwise struggles to hold its own in the country of its birth. Snooker and Darts, too, enjoy period profile boosts in line with the holding of their largest events. Many other sports are also played and followed to a lesser degree. There is much debate over which sport has the most active participants with swimming, athletics, cycling all found to have wider active participation than association football in the 2010 Sport England Active People survey.
17th century
Writing about has explained the role of Puritan power, the English Civil War, and the Restoration of the monarchy in England. The Long Parliament in 1642 "banned theatres, which had met with Puritan disapproval. Although similar action would be taken against certain sports, it is not clear if cricket was in any way prohibited, except that players must not break the Sabbath". In 1660, "the Restoration of the monarchy in England was immediately followed by the reopening of the theatres and so any sanctions that had been imposed by the Puritans on cricket would also have been lifted."[3] He goes on to make the key point that political, social and economic conditions in the aftermath of the Restoration encouraged excessive gambling, so much so that a Gambling Act was deemed necessary in 1664. It is certain that cricket, horse racing and boxing (i.e., prizefighting) were financed by gambling interests. Leech explains that it was the habit of cricket patrons, all of whom were gamblers, to form strong teams through the 18th century to represent their interests. He defines a strong team as one representative of more than one parish and he is certain that such teams were first assembled in or immediately after 1660. Prior to the English Civil War and the Commonwealth, all available evidence concludes that cricket had evolved to the level of village cricket only where teams that are strictly representative of individual parishes compete. The "strong teams" of the post-Restoration mark the evolution of cricket (and, indeed of professional team sport, for cricket is the oldest professional team sport) from the parish standard to the county standard. This was the point of origin for major, or first-class, cricket. The year 1660 also marks the origin of professional team sport.
Cricket
The Ashes urn, competed for between Australia and England in cricket
Cricket had become well-established among the English upper class in the 18th century, and was a major factor in sports competition among the public schools. Army units around the Empire had time on their hands, and encouraged the locals to learn cricket so they could have some entertaining competition. Most of the Empire embraced cricket, with the exception of Canada.[4] Cricket test matches (international) began by the 1870s; the most famous is that between Australia and Britain for "The Ashes."[5]
Public schools
A number of the public schools such as Winchester and Eton, introduced variants of football and other sports for their pupils. These were described at the time as "innocent and lawful", certainly in comparison with the rougher rural games. With urbanization in the 19th century, the rural games moved to the new urban centres and came under the influence of the middle and upper classes. The rules and regulations devised at English institutions began to be applied to the wider game, with governing bodies in England being set up for a number of sports by the end of the 19th century. The rising influence of the upper class also produced an emphasis on the amateur, and the spirit of "fair play". The industrial revolution also brought with it increasing mobility, and created the opportunity for universities in Britain and elsewhere to compete with one another. This sparked increasing attempts to unify and reconcile various games in England, leading to the establishment of the Football Association in London, the first official governing body in football.
For sports to become professionalized, coaching had to come first. It gradually professionalized in the Victorian era and the role was well established by 1914. In the First World War, military units sought out the coaches to supervise physical conditioning and develop morale-building teams.[6]
Sports culture
British Prime Minister John Major was the political leader most closely identified with promotion of sports. In 1995 he argued:
We invented the majority of the world's great sports.... 19th century Britain was the cradle of a leisure revolution every bit as significant as the agricultural and industrial revolutions we launched in the century before.[7]
The British showed a more profound interest in sports, and in greater variety, than any rival. This was chiefly due to the development of the railway network in the UK before other nations. Allowing for national newspapers, and travel around the country far earlier than in other places. They gave pride of place to such moral issues as sportsmanship and fair play.[8] Cricket became symbolic of the Imperial spirit throughout the Empire. Football proved highly attractive to the urban working classes, which introduced the rowdy spectator to the sports world. In some sports, there was significant controversy in the fight for amateur purity especially in rugby and rowing. New games became popular almost overnight, including golf, lawn tennis, cycling and hockey. Women were much more likely to enter these sports than the old established ones. The aristocracy and landed gentry, with their ironclad control over land rights, dominated hunting, shooting, fishing and horse racing.[9][10] Many modern Olympic sports trace their roots back to Britain.[11]
Administration and funding
Political responsibility for sport is a devolved matter. As England has no parliament of her own, the United Kingdom Department of Culture, Media and Sport which is headed by a cabinet minister -though the Minister for Sport and Tourism is not in the cabinet- deals with English sport in addition to United Kingdom-wide sports.
Political responsibility for Sport in Scotland lies with the Scottish Government Minister for Sport and Health Improvement, currently Jamie Hepburn, though is part of the remit of the Cabinet secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Sport, currently Shona Robison.
Political responsibility for sport in Wales lies with the Welsh Minister for Health, Wellbeing and Sport, currently Vaughan Gething.
The Minister sets out the strategic policy objectives for Sport Wales, who are responsible for the development and promotion of sport and active lifestyles in Wales.[12][13] Sport Wales work closely with the Governing bodies of sports in Wales to whom they distribute government and National Lottery funding, through grants and awards.[14]
As the Northern Ireland Assembly was reduced in size and a number of departments removed it is not currently (March 2017) clear who holds political responsibility for Sport in Northern Ireland. However virtually every team sport is organised on either an all Ireland or United Kingdom-wide basis, with football and netball being the only exceptions. As such responsibility for most sports lies with either the United Kingdom minister or the Irish minister for Transport, Tourism & Sport.
The Sport and Recreation Alliance is the representative body for sports organisations in the United Kingdom, including federations, players associations, mabagers associations and regional organisations.
A large majority of the funding for elite sport in the United Kingdom is commercially generated, but this is concentrated heavily on a few sports. For example, the English Premiership's 20 clubs had an estimated combined turnover of £1.25 billion in 2003-04 according to Deloitte, and British professional football's total income was in the region of £2 billion. Other major sports have a turnover in low nine figures or the tens of millions. For example, cricket is highly dependent on its TV contract, which was worth £55 million a year for the 2006-09 seasons.
Athletics, and also most sports outside the top ten or so in popularity, are heavily dependent on public funding. The government agency which funnels this is UK Sport, which has affiliates in each of the home nations, for example Sport England. These agencies are also responsible for distributing money raised for sport by the National Lottery. In 2005, when it was announced London would host the 2012 Games, UK Sport announced funding plans which were more focused than ever before on rewarding sports which have delivered Olympic success, and as a corollary penalising those which have not. UK Sport also provides money for the recreational side of the main team sports, even football.
Other sports benefit from special financial provision. British tennis is subsidised by the profits of the Wimbledon Championships, which are in the tens of millions of pounds each year. Horse racing benefits from a levy on betting.
Following the Budget from 21 March 2007 there will be only few tax breaks to British sport in the near future.
15 Theme: Culture. Arts – Painting, Music. The usage of lexis of specialties.
Model of teaching technology of the lesson
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The number of students
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Form of the lesson
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Practical
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Time of the lesson
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2 hours
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Plan of the lesson
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Introduction of the lesson
Actualization of the lesson
Informative
Conclusive
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The aim of the lesson
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1. To enlarge students vocabulary
2. To improve their reading and speaking skills
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Tasks of the teacher is:
- to enable students to speak about characters of children and the importance of home in the upbringing;
- to work with text “The Difficult Child”. It is a group work, students are divided into four groups and study the passage then exchange the information with other group;
- to ask students to do the task according to the text (app.1);
- to make them work in three groups (app.2);
- to do conclusion of the lesson activity.
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The results of educational process:
The student must:
- be able to do discussion on the set topic, express their view on the problem;
- read the text, be able to answer to the teacher’s questions, form own opinion on the subject; be ready to give analysis of the problem.
- students work in groups of two; they summarize the text in three paragraphs;
- this activity is intended to develop speaking ability, every group is defending the presented statement, students should bring the arguments to prove their statement;
- evaluate, give appreciation of the whole lesson.
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Methods of teaching
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Traditional: interactive, deductive.
Modern:
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Techniques of teaching
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Technical equipment: tape recorder
Educational equipments: blackboard, dictionary, textbook, handouts.
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Forms of teaching
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Work: individual and group work.
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Conditions of teaching
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Auditorium equipped with necessary equipments
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Controlling and marking
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Marking students by the methods of qualities, desert island.
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The technological schedule of the practical lesson
1. Time: 2 hours
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The number of students 12-15
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The form of the lesson
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Practical
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The plan of the lesson
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to read two styles of songwriting
to learn new words
to do the tasks for consolidating the theme
to get to know the logical point of the learning chapter
to make conclusion
to give home task
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The aim of the lesson
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To improve the oral speech by doing speech practice, can use the new words, to know the grammar construction of the sentences, to give some information about art.
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Pedagogical tasks
reviewing
giving handouts of words and expressions
analyzing the information from the previous lesson
working with new words
encourage them to speak English
doing the exercises:
lexical exercises, grammar exercises and speech practice
making conclusion
giving home task
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The results of doing exercises:
they are able to answer the questions
can use them in their speech
they do tasks
they give their opinion
they put down the home task
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The methods of teaching
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Over viewing, oral asking, giving opinion.
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Teaching equipment
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Book, tape-recorder, projector.
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The form of teaching
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Group work
Pair work
Individual
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Teaching conditions
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Monitoring and assessing
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Oral and written assessments, tasks.
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A street party at a primary school in Lancashire, England, on the occasion of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton
The culture of the United Kingdom is influenced by the UK's history as a developed state, a liberal democracy and a great power; its predominantly Christian religious life; and its composition of four countries—England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland—each of which has distinct customs, cultures and symbolism. The wider culture of Europe has also influenced British culture, and Humanism, Protestantism and representative democracy developed from broader Western culture.
British literature, music, cinema, art, theatre, comedy, media, television, philosophy, architecture and education are important aspects of British culture. The United Kingdom is also prominent in science and technology, producing world-leading scientists (e.g. Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin) and inventions. Sport is an important part of British culture; numerous sports originated in the country, including football. The UK has been described as a "cultural superpower",[1][2] and London has been described as a world cultural capital.[3][4] A global opinion poll for the BBC saw the UK ranked the third most positively viewed nation in the world (behind Germany and Canada) in 2013 and 2014.[5][6]
The Industrial Revolution, which started in the UK, had a profound effect on the family socio-economic and cultural conditions of the world. As a result of the British Empire, significant British influence can be observed in the language, law, culture and institutions of a geographically wide assortment of countries, including Australia, Canada, India, the Republic of Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United States and English speaking Caribbean nations. These states are sometimes collectively known as the Anglosphere, and are among Britain's closest allies.[7][8] In turn the empire also influenced British culture, particularly British cuisine.[9]
The cultures of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are diverse and have varying degrees of overlap and distinctiveness.
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