Урок по английскому языку на тему Hypocrisy in our society ( 11 класс)

Form: 11
Theme: “Hypocrisy in our society”.
Aims: a) checking general comprehension
b) to get acquainted the pupils with literary credo of American writer J.Selinger c) to foster the pupil’s love to English literature, language and culture
d) to develop the pupil’s skills in analysing and creative thinking
The type of lesson: complex
Materials : the novel of J.D.Salinger “The Catcher in the Rye”, handouts, presentation
Procedure

Greeting: T. Stand up, please.Good morning, children!
Ps. Good morning, teacher!
T. Sit down!Get ready for the lesson? Let’s start our English lesson now.
Who is absent today?
P. Nobody is absent.
1.Warm up:
T. Do you like the school you go to?
P1. Yes, of course, it is my second home.
Do you often experience problems with your studies, attitude, etc.?
P2 I’m trying to avoid them.
Do you have favorite subjects?
P3. There are some of them, for example, English, Literature, etc.
Do you know what you are going to be after school?
P4. I haven’t thought about it.
2. The main part of the lesson.

T. Today we’ll speak about famous writer Jerome David Sellinger. He was born in 1919 in New York. His father was a prosperous importer of ham and cheese. The boy grew up with a sister who was eight years older than he. It was said of him that he was friendly with other children, but he always wanted to do unconventional things; for hours no one in the family knew where he was or what he was doing; he only showed up for meals. He seldom joined other boys in a game.
Salinger did not do well at school, so his parents enrolled him in the Valley Forge Academy in Pennsylvania, which was a military academy. There at night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flashlight beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger wrote his first short stories.
On graduating from the Valley Forge Academy he told his family that he wanted to become a writer. His father thought that was not the career for him; his son, he believed, should step into his father’s shoes. So Salinger was sent to Poland to learn the ham business. For a couple of months he slaughtered pigs and waggoned them through the snow with the slaughter master. Then he returned to America.
Salinger tried to attend college but soon found that the academic program was of no avail to him. The first story he published was the “Young Men”.
During World War II he spent four years in the army and was sent to Europe. He was assigned to discover Gestapo agents by interviewing French civilians, and to capture Germans. In 1943, while Salinger was still in France, the American magazine Saturday Evening Post published his story “The Varioni Brothers”. Sergeant Salinger sent the money he earned to the editor of the magazine Story to help other young writers.
In 1944 Salinger met Ernest Hemingway, then a war correspondent in France. Hemingway had read Salinger’s stories and said that the young writer had “a helluva talent” (a hell of a talent). Some other stories of his, published in 1946 in the New Yorker, a very respectable literary magazine, brought him fame as a writer. One of these stories, “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut”, was filmed. But Hollywood turned it into a “soap opera”, that is to say, made a commercial film characterized by little action and much sentiment. (Some of these films used a story as a background for advertising soap and cosmetics, hence the derogatory name for them – “soap opera”.) Since then Salinger has refused to sell any of his stories.
Salinger has become a classic because of his real understanding of American youth. His works written in the fifties, the years of the cold war, depict young boys and girls who have been justly called by critics the “silent generation”, because they can’t find their way in the post-war chaos.
Salinger sees the falsity of American life in the same way as his heroes. He has always disliked American sensational films about writers and actors, and photographs with scenes from the private lives of famous people, because he considers these to be intended mainly for publicity. He also hates American advertisements because they are meant to fool the public into buying things whether they need them or not, and he so detests fashionable social recreations, that he lives the life of a recluse.
T. Please, answer my questions:
Where and when was J.D.Selinger born?
Where did he study?
What did he do during World War II?
When and where was the story “The Varioni Brothers” published?
What impact did Hemingway do on Selinger’s literary work?
What can you say about Selinger’s views on the American life and youth?
3. Oral practice.
Pupils are given copies of a poem by R.Burns “Comin’ thro’ the rye”. They are asked to read it.
T. Why do you think this poem was one of Holden Caulfield’s favorite ones?

Coming through the rye, poor body,
Coming through the rye,
She draiglet’ her petticoat,
Coming through the rye.Oh, Jenny, what a poor body,
Jenny’s seldom dry.
She draiglet’ her petticoat,
Coming through the rye.Gin a body met a body –
Coming through the rye,
Gin a body kissed a body –
Need a body cry?
Gin a body met a body –
Coming through the glen,
Gin a body kissed a body –
Need the world her man?
Jenny, what a poor body,
Jenny’s seldom dry,
She draiglet’ her petticoat,
Coming through the rye. P 1. Holden was actually as lonely as Jenny in the poem, and he was going through life “the field of rye” (parallelism) trying to find someone, or maybe even trying to find himself.
P 2. Important parallels here:
Holden – Jenny; our everyday life – Field of rye; troubles and unsatisfaction – wet petticoat; trying to find someone – finding another body.4.Checking comprehension.
T. Indicate the letter in the space provided for the appropriate object/action associated with each of the characters. Then briefly tell what we learn about him/her through that association.
expensive suitcases
baseball glove
sex stories
a piano
a huntingn hat
a pond in Central Park
Christmas savings
a dirty razor
a slip of paper with philosophic quotations
kings in checkers
a nail clipper
a clean green dress
1.________Holden Caulfield
2.________Robert Ackley
3.________Ward Stradlater4.________Mr.Antolini
5.________the two nuns
6.________Jane Gallagher
7.________Ernie
8.________Ellie Caulfield
9.________Phoebe Caulfield
10._______Carl Luce
11._______ducks
12._______Sunny, the prostitute
5. T. Read the following phrases by Holden Caulfield and think what they tell us about his personality.
I hadn’t got a goddamn thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyways...
Then a funny thing happened. When I got to the museum, all of a sudden I wouldn’t have gone inside for a million bucks. It just didn’t appeal to me...
Catching those damn kids at the edge of a cliff running in the field of rye seemed like, I don’t know, like the most worthy things in life.
I was trying really hard to think of some thing I really, really liked, but I just couldn’t concentrate too hot.
P 2. Holden just couldn’t find himself in this world of hypocrisy and he was searching for values, different from those of the society.
Brainstorm. Developing the free discussion. (Possible group work) Discussion points:
Does Holden have a superiority complex? Is he superior? In what ways?
How is Holden real or believable character?
Does Holden often misinterpret the situations?
Considering the book published in 1951, what make it a “timeless” story?
What are Holden’s relationships with his family?
What is Holden attitude towards the opposite sex?
The final part of the lesson. Reflection.
T. Today we have spoken about famous American writer J.D.Sellinger, his creative work and his heroes, discussed some problems of American youth at home and at school. I hope it was interesting for you and in future you will read this novel. Now let’s work in groups, make the sinquan according to the theme of our lesson, in some minutes read your creations.
T. You were active at our lesson, so your marks are the following…
Home task.T. Write a short paragraph commenting the following phrase of Holden Caulfield: „If you do something too good, then after a while, if you don’t watch it, you start showing off. And then you’re not as good any more...”
Sample answer:
In this phrase Holden talks about actors and actresses, but it will also be true for anybody. I think, at some point these words can explain why so many people around Holden are “phonies”, at least why he thinks they are. Of course, people, who pretend to be good and to look good, but are not really the way they look are phonies. But how can the same rule apply to people who are good in what they are doing? Yes, it can, and I agree here with Holden, because quite often I feel the same way. The person, who is really good in doing something should always leave some room for doing even better and consider the possibility to find some things, that he can put even more effort to. But if he decides that there’s nothing more to look for, and he achieved the highest level, then he starts only worrying about what to do to look good enough according to his image, and it spoils everything else.
T. The lesson is over. Goodbye.
Ps.Goodbye.