Конспект урока "D.I. Mendeleyev" 11 класс
The theme: D. I. Mendeleyev.
The Present Indefinite (Simple) Tense.
Aims:
1. Educational: the development of skills oral speech, reading and translation to
enrich pupils’ knowledge about D. I. Mendeleyev.
M.V. Lomonosov. The Present Indefinite (Simple) Tense. develop pupils’ skills
in speaking, listening, reading.
To educate the feelings of international friendship, to teach students to express
their own points of view and work in groups;
to develop skills of reading, listening, speaking and unprepared speech;
2. Developing: to do exercises, talking about D. I. Mendeleyev.
M.V. Lomonosov. The Present Indefinite (Simple) Tense.
3. Educative: to wake interesting to our new theme.
Type of lessons: communication, practice. Revision and getting new
information
Course of lessons:
1. Orgmoment: Greeting with student.
2 .Presentation of new theme:
• Read the text:
• Dmitri Mendeleev (08.02. [O.S. 27.01.] 1834 - 02.02. [O.S. 20.01.] 1907) - Russian
chemist and inventor.
• Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was born on 8 February
1834 near Tobolsk. He was a Russian inventor and
chemist. The most famous invention of Mendeleev
is periodic table of elements.
• Early life
• Mendeleev’s parents were Maria Mendeleeva (nee
Kornilieva) and Ivan Mendeleev. According to the
different sources there were approximately
seventeen children in their family. Mendeleev was
the youngest child. His father worked as a teacher
but he became blind and stopped working. As a
result Maria Mendeleeva began to work and re-
established the glass factory which belonged to her
family. It is also known that Mendeleev’s
grandfather was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. When Mendeleev was 13 he
entered the Gymnasium in Tobolsk.
• In 1849 his family moved to Saint Petersburg. In 1850 Mendeleev joined The Main
Pedagogical Institute. Following the graduation he developed tuberculosis and was forced to
relocate to the Crimean Peninsula. Living there, Mendeleev became a science master of the
Simferopol gymnasium #1. In 1857 after recovery he arrived in Saint Petersburg.
• Later life
• From 1859 to 1861 Mendeleev worked in Heidelberg and researched the capillarity of liquids.
In April 1862 he married Feozva Nikitichna Leshcheva. Two years later Mendeleev became a
professor at the Saint Petersburg Technological Institute. In 1865 he became a professor at
Saint Petersburg State University. The same year Mendeleev completed his dissertation "On
the Combinations of Water with Alcohol". By 1871 Saint Petersburg was known as a center
for chemistry research. In 1876 Mendeleev fell in love with Anna Ivanova Popova. In 1881 he
made a proposal of marriage to her. The following year Mendeleev married her. The same
year he divorced his first wife. Mendeleev had two children from his first marriage: Olga and
Vladimir. His other children from the second marriage were Lyubov, a pair of twins and son
Ivan. It should be noted that Lyubov was the wife of Russian poet Alexander Blok.
• Mendeleev obtained a lot of awards from different scientific organizations but he resigned
from Saint Petersburg University in 1890. Three years later Mendeleev was appointed
Director of the Bureau of Weights and Measures. His task was to formulate new standards of
vodka. According to the new standards created by Mendeleev all vodka had to be made at
forty percent alcohol by volume. He also researched the composition of petroleum and made
a contribution to the foundation of the first Russian oil refinery.
• In 1906 the Nobel Committee for Chemistry suggested to the Swedish Academy to award the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1906 to Mendeleev for his discovery of the periodic system. This
proposal was approved. But at the full meeting of the Academy one of the members
recommended the candidacy of Henri Moissan. Moreover Svante Arrhenius who had influence
on the Academy also advised to reject the candidacy of Mendeleev. The contemporaries state
that Arrhenius was against Mendeleev because of his critique of Arrhenius's dissociation
theory. As a result the candidacy of Mendeleev was rejected.
• Dmitri Mendeleev died of influenza in Saint Petersburg in 1907.
1. Grammar time: Present Simple
• Study this example situation:
Alex is the bus driver – this is the present simple tense:
We use the present simple to talk about thinga in general. We are not
thinking only about the present. We use it to say that something happens all
the time or repeatedly or that something is true in general. It is not
important whether the action is happening at the time of speaking:
- The earth goes round the sun.
- Nurses look after patients in hospitals.
- In Britain most of the shops close at 5.30 p.m.
Remember that we say he /she/it - s
We use do does to make questions and negative sentences:
Do- I/you/we/they/ - work? I/you/we/they/ - don’t work.
Does – he/she/it – work? – he/she/it –doesn’t work.
We use the present simple when we say how often we do things:
Note that we say “where do you come from?”
C) Exercises:
Exercise 2.1 you have to put the verb into correct form.
Examples: water bolls at 100 degrees centigrade.
George doesn’t go to the cinema every day. etc
Exercise 2.2 This time you have to read some sentences and correct them. The
English is correct but the information is wrong. Write 2 correct sentences each
time.
Exercise 2.3. Now you have to use these sentences to make questions. Begin your
questions with the word in brackets.
2. Summarizing the lessons. Home task. Thank you very much. You have
worked well today. Your homework will be: write 10 sentences in Present
Simple.
