Методическая разработка плана шекспировского урока «Conflict Resolution» для учащихся 9 классов

Time

Parts of the lesson

Pupils ’ tasks

Teacher’s tasks

Pupils ’activity

Teacher’s activity

Results

2 minutes

Warming-up

To guess and answer the questions about the play

To involve Pupils’ interest to the topic and get them suggesting the ideas

Pupils try to guess and suggest their ideas

Teacher asks Pupils to look at the picture and answer the questions:

Pupils have    named the author and the play.

5 minutes

Telling the plot of the play

To develop speaking skills

To cheer up Pupils’ speaking

Pupils tell their versions of the story

Teacher asks if the pupils know what are the main characters of the play and offers to watch the video about Romeo and Juliet

Pupils have learned the plot of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and can tell each other about it in brief .

7 minutes

Introducing the theme

To develop listening skills; to learn emphasizing feelings

To help the pupils to understand the beauty of a real love

Pupils watch the video

Now Teacher offers to discuss what the cause of that tragedy was and how those families could have prevented such a dreadful final.

Pupils have seen the atmosphere of Shakspeare's times and experienced deep emotions of sympathy to the young people in the tragedy, having offered relevant ways of avoiding such a terrible final.

15 minutes

Group work

To brainstorm the ideas

To organize work in groups

Pupils choose who will be the Capulets, who will be the Montegues, and who will be experts.

Teacher asks Pupils to divide into three groups according to their preferences and use the students'    worksheets for writing down their thoughts.

Pupils have    discussed and compared problems between the families in Shakespeare’s play and in a modern life.

10 minutes

Presenting the ideas

To learn to hear different people’ opinions

To teach to be tolerant and able to resolve conflicts peacefully

Each member of the groups takes part in the discussion how to stop tragedy.

Teacher asks the families to present their problems. Then Teacher asks experts present their resolutions on the problems.

Pupils have learned how to resolve conflicts in a peaceful way

5 minutes

Rewriting the end of the story

To develop creativity and writing skills

To develop creativity and writing skills

Pupils write their own endings of the play.

Teacher wonders what the end of the play would have been written by William Shakespeare and asks pupils to put it down in their sheets.

Pupils have    written alternative endings of the play

1 minute

Background

To think about reading Shakespeare’s plays

To develop pupils’ reading skills

Pupils discuss the idea of reading Shakespeare’s plays

Teacher advises Pupils to find other conflicts in Shakespeare’s plays and resolve them at the next lessons.

Pupils want to read Shakespeare’s plays,