Методическая разработка плана Шекспировского урока : "Conflict Resolution" для учащихся 9-х 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

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 name 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 told the plot of ‘Romeo and Juliet’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 their families could have prevented such a dreadful 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 student worksheets for writing down their thoughts.

Pupils discussed and compared problems between 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 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 wrote 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