Аэрокосмическое образование на уроках английского языка

Аэрокосмическое образование на уроках английского языка

Л.А.Дворягина - педагог дополнительного образования

Муниципальное бюджетное образовательное учреждение дополнительного образования Детско-юношеский центр космического образования «Галактика», г. Калуга

Учащиеся Детско-юношеского центра «Галактика» , обучаясь по программе «Путешествие в страну Инглишлэнд», знакомятся с традициями Англии, учатся говорить на английском языке. Но тема космоса является особенной для всех учащихся Центра, поэтому в канун 12 апреля традиционно проводится викторина на знание основных эпох и фактов развития космонавтики. Для выполнения заданий группа делится на два «экипажа». Участники викторины переводят слова по космической тематике, отвечают на вопросы по теме «Космос». Данное занятие не только расширяет кругозор участников викторины, но также является этапом профильной подготовки.

• Участники викторины переводят следующие слова :

THE COSMONAUT, THE ASTRONAUT,CHIEF DESIGNER,SPACECRAFT,ORBITAL STATION,LANDING, AUTOMATIC, EXPERIMENTAL,TECHNOLOGY,ORBIT,THE SATELLITE,STATION,OUTPUT IN SPACE,COMET,METEORITE,GROUND,GRAVITATION,WEIGHTLESSNESS,CONSTELLATIONS,PLANETARIUM,THE MILKY WAY,MYTHOLOGY,LEGENDS.

• Далее учитель приводит некоторые факты из истории космонавтики.

SOME FACTS ABOUT THE FIRST FLIGHTS INTO SPACE

On April 12, 1961, at 9.07. a.m. Moscow time, the spaceship “ Vostok” was launched into space with a man on a board and after orbiting our planet returned to the Earth. The first man to visit space was Yuri Gagarin. He spent 108 min. there. This day will go down in history as a great achievement, opening the space age.

The simple Russian teacher, who lived in Kaluga , Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky gave the idea of flying in space and building the space rocket. One rocket was not enough and he suggested a “rocket train”.Tsiolkovsky said: “ The planet is the cradle of reason, but one can not live in the cradle forever”.

The years of the space age are full of different events:

• On October 4, 1957 came the first sputnik

• German Titov was the first to orbit our planet 17 times

• Alexei Leonov achieved the first “space walk” in 1965

• Valentina Nikolayeva – Tereshkova, the first woman – cosmonaut made her flight through space

• The first experimental station with four cosmonauts on board went into orbit

• The first American expedition landed the Moon. Neil A.Armstrong – the first man to step on the surface of the Moon.

• The flights of the American astronauts to the Moon and orbiting of the Moon marked the beginning of travels to other planets

• The Soviet “Lunokhod”, automatic stations, and other space laboratories, have begun a new period in space exploration.

• Участники викторины отвечают на следующие вопросы:

Answer the questions, please.

1. What do you know about K.E. Tsiokovsky?

(He worked out the ideas of space flights and experimented with rockets.

1. What do you know about the fist sputniks and our lunnik?

2. When was the fist earth satellite launched (запущен)?

(on October 4, 1957, came the first sputnik. Sputniks were followed by lunniks.)

1. What do you know about the first space pilots?

2. Why do we say that Yuri Gagarin’s flight opened the space age?

3. How long did the first manned space flight last?

4. What was the name of the first Spaceship?

( on April 12, 1961, at 9.07. a.m. Moscow time for the first time in the worlds history Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin rose from the ground into space aboard the “Vostok” spaceship with the words “ Up we go!” The 108 minutes which it took to fly round our planet were the first minutes of the space age.)

1. Who followed Gagarin in space exploration?

2. What were the achievements of those cosmonauts?

(German Titov – the first to orbit our planet 17 times. Valentina Nikolayeva –Tereshkova – the first woman – cosmonaut 1963.Alexei Leonov achieved the first “space walk” in 1965.The first Soviet experimental station with four cosmonauts on board went in to orbit. In 1984 the American Bruce Mc Candiess made the first independent excursion in space.)

1. How did man get to the Moon?

(The American astronauts flew to the MOON. At 2:56 July 21, 1969.Neil Armstrong said: “One small step for a man – one giant step for mankind”. The flights of the American astronauts to the Moon and the orbiting of the Moon marked the beginning of travels to other planets.)

1. What are the advantages (преимущества) of automatic stations?

2. What are the aims of space laboratories?

( The Soviet “Lunokhod”, automatic stations, and other space laboratories, have begun a new period in space exploration. From the first experiments scientists went over to systematic exploration of space. The successes achieved made it possible to raise new important problems, to make new experiments and new discoveries.)

1. Why should we send automatic stations to Venus , Mars and other planets?

( The aim is at further studying near – earth space and studying the Earth from space to help geology, agriculture, meteorology, astronomy; at new experiments in biology and medicine, new technology.)

• Подводятся итоги викторины.

Я думаю, что предложенное занятие способствует воспитанию чувства патриотизма у детей и чувства гордости за родной город Калугу – город космонавтики.