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Конспект урока "The mystery of Stonehenge" 10 класс

План – конспект открытого урока в 10 классе
The mystery of Stonehenge
Step1
Warm-up: (5 min)
We’re going to speak about Lost Civilizations and the incredible impact they had
on our present day culture.
What Lost Civilizations can you name? What make them so remarkable? What
are they famous for? (St make their examples)
Slides 1 and 2 to gain ideas
INVENTIONS
Step 2
Now we are going to speak about some mysterious places on our planet such as
Stonehenge. In order to answer the question why it was built and how it was used
I want you to know some more vocabulary referred to the topic.
Vocabulary (5 min)
St are suggested to do the exercises. Now, try to complete the sentences with the
words from the table below:
Words (about the Stonehenge)
1. The process of killing animals in order to thank gods -
……………………………………………………..
2. The process of putting dead body in to the hole in the ground -
………………………………………
3. The process of asking gods for help and saying how powerful they are
……………………………
4. The special place where the dead bodies were put in the ground -
…………………………………….
5. Small pieces of smth no longer existed, which can still be found in the ground-
………………………..
6. The place where the gods live and the stars shine - ………………………………………………..
7. The longest day in the year - ………………………………………….
8. The long and thick piece of wood - ………………………………….
9. Something like the bed of the dry river dug in the ground surrounding the castle -
…………………
Funeral worship sacrifice ceremonial burial ground
Celestial pole ditch remains solstice
Step 3 Vocabulary practice (5 min)
St are provided with the visual materials to make sentences using the words
presented to them. The question is, how such sacred places might have been
used by our ancestors?
The object – offering
The event – ceremony , rite
Aim – to thank the gods, to ask for a favor, to predict the future
The process – to make a sacrifice
People who do it – soothsayers
The process – to pray
To know the future – to read
smb’s fortune
say how grate the gods are –
praise, eulogize , worship
Step 4 Video
So, now, I suggest you watching a short, but really exciting video, presenting you
some more information about Stonehenge. You will definitely find smth new for
you, as I’m sure, You’ve never known that there used to be hundreds of
enormous stone circles in the UK.
Please, watch carefully and try to complete the sentences below with the
information from the video.
Stonehenge (video 1 and 2)
Location - ………………………….plain in southern England
Time - …………………………….hundred BC
The same time was the …………………………………………..in Egypt construction.
People held huge rocks, some of them ……………..tones across the rough land.
They formed each stone to its shape then turned them upright to form a
………………….
Five great ………………….were enclosed in the ring of the ………………..stones upright.
There are ………………………………………and …………………………………..of sights like
Stonehenge.
And there are ………………………………..of prehistoric sights spread for miles in
different directions such as …………………………..sights or ……………………….circles.
The building in Silbury Hill is a huge man made ………………………… the biggest in
Europe.
It would take ……….men working every day for ……………………..years to build it.
Hedges have a ………………………inside the bank but in Stonehenge the ditch lies
outside which implies that they had different …………………………..
The true hedge is in Avebury which lies………………………….miles north of
Stonehenge.
It is the greatest ceremonial place in the UK.
Avebury was excavated in the first part of the ………………………century and the
surrounding ditch was ……………………feet deep..
Our early ancestors had excavated out nearly ……………….tones of chock to form
the ditch.
Inside the circle were nine concentric rings of ……………………………each post a
………………………or more across and the whole sight was surrounding by
………………………..
Step 5 Speaking
Discussion:
How do you think, what Stonehenge was built for? Why did the ancient tribes
make so much effort, devoted so much labor and money to create this
astonishing sight?
St discuss the ideas gained from the video and from the texts they’ve been
provided with as a part of their homework.
(The texts are provided below. See the next page.)
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