Конспект урока «COMMUNICATION. LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT CONFLICTS»

Конспект урока «COMMUNICATION. LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT CONFLICTS»
Урок, направленный на активизацию лексического материала по теме «Общение» в 9 классе для развития умений монологического высказывания.
Алимпиева Елена Васильевна,
учитель высшей категории,
МБОУ «Школа № 45», г. Рязань
Warming up.What have you come here for?
Do you know the reasons of people’s communication?
Is it an easy thing? What does it depend on?
So, communication is worth discussing as many things influence it. And if you want to be a success in life you should learn to live with others and have as fewer conflicts as possible. At this lesson I suggest you discussing some things, which will help you to master the art of communication.
1. Expressing personal priorities. Phonetic drill + logical grouping
Say the words after me and practice your pronunciation:
Haughty, decent, persistent, witty, boastful, communicative, irritable, hot-tempered, light-minded, cruel, impudent, mean, tactful, reasonable, honest, obstinate
- choose and name what qualities you look for in a good companion;
choose and name the features that would bother you in your surrounding.
You may add some words of your own to each category if you want.
Saying compliments or criticizing.
Try to analyze the character of your classmate the way you feel it. What traits does he/she posses?
Use the words: extremely, not at all, a bit, rather, very, quite/fairly, never. Group adjectives with and/but
E.g. You are extremely…but a bit…..; rather……and very ….etc.
3.Evaluating people’s behavior.
Our success in communication depends on the way we behave. Work in pairs, analyze the behavior of these two creatures according to their actions. Work in pairs.
e.g. – He/she (always, sometimes, never, seldom, often) Vs
-- I think he/sheto learn from mistakes
to smile pleasantly
to listen to people attentively
to have natural eye contact
to talk at the top of his/her voice
to get hurt at trifles
to argue
to control his/her temper
to insult and offend people
to drift from day to day
to avoid responsibility
I think
She/He is mature / immature.
She/He is sure to have (no) problems in communication.
She/He is easy / hard to get along with.
She/He is (un)pleasant to the company.
She/He is a success / a failure in communication.
She/He is never/really the soul of the company.
She/He can (can’t) avoid conflicts.
She/He is a good/bad sport.
4. Practicing your body language.
Our body language is also very important in successful interaction. Let’s practice it. Stand up. Show the following in gestures.
Smile pleasantly, smile ironically, shake hands warmly, you are glad to see your friend, you are happy, you are angry, you are ill-mannered, you love it, you are tired, you want to support your friend, say ”NO”, say ”YES”, say “GOOD BYE!”
5. 1. Creating a group profile “Our Company».
Now let’s speak about our company. Try to analyze our manners and behavior using the words from your last lesson paper.
Start asking questions. The model is:
e. g. Who does this or that from time to time,(sometimes, often, regularly)?
(2 “scribes” for 2 groups are nominated to record facts about the group on the board.)
b). Summarize the information. And make a conclusion Are your companies good or hard to get along with? Can your company avoid conflicts easily or it will certainly get into trouble? Is your
surrounding well-bred or ill-mannered? Explain your point of view, giving arguments.
e.g. Ten people in our group always deceive parents. Two pupils shirk lessons sometimes.
So, ….. Etc.
5.2. Interview our guests about their behavior.( it was your home task to get ready for it)
c) Share the results of the interview.
6. Eliciting personal experience.
Speak about the way you communicate with people and analyze if you are successful in learning to live with others without conflicts. Use the previous assignments.
7. Home task Work with a psychological test Are you happy being you? It will give you some food for thought.
8.Cooperating and projecting. Working out strategies. You will certainly have no conflicts with people if you follow “Rules of Communication”.
Let’s create such a “post-lesson” project. Everybody takes markers, comes to this clean paper and writes down important things to remember about communication without problems. Be specific
Home task: Do the test and analyze the score. Get ready to discuss it in class.
Are you happy being you? There are times when each and every one of us looks in the mirror and wishes that somebody completely different was staring back. But what about the rest of the time? Do our quiz and find out if you’re happy being you!
If somebody criticizes you, do you usually:
feel very sorry for yourself?
listen to what they’re saying before you reply?
start defending yourself?
Back to that mirror. Study your full- length reflection in it and tick which parts of you you’d change if you had half a chance:
nosee) teethi) legs
mouthf) skinj) height
eyesg) tummyk) chest/bust
earsh) bottoml) feet
If a member of the opposite sex asked you out, would you be:
surprised but pleased and flattered?
hardly surprised? After all, you are the best looking person in the school!
absolutely amazed that they should choose you?
What quality do you look for in a best friend?
A sense of humor?
Someone you can tell your troubles to?
Someone who thinks you are brilliant?
When you are with a group of people, how would you describe yourself?
The leader of the pack?
One of the crowd?
The odd one out?
If you were feeling depressed, would you:
talk to someone about it?
go and take some exercise?
sit around and feel miserable?
What’s your score?
1. a 0b 5c 10
2. Score one point for every letter you didn’t tick.
3. a 5b 10c 0
4. a 5b 0c 10
5. a 10b 5c 0
6. a 5b10c 0
0-20: Come on, you can’t be that bad … no one is! You have a very low opinion of yourself and, if you don’t change soon, you’ll spend your whole life feeling unhappy and envious of your friends instead of having a laugh and enjoying communicating with them. Take another look in that mirror and smile! You and everything around you will look better immediately!
21-40: You’re realistic about yourself and realize that you can’t be the center of attention the whole time. That makes you a very good friend to have around. Don’t worry about your appearance. Nobody’s perfect!
41-62: You are self- confident and have a high regard for yourself. You also like to be at the center of things and have lots of friends. Be careful about becoming too big- headed though. If you do, you’ll regret it!