План-конспект урока
к 70-летию победы в Великой Отечественной войне
по теме «Зина Портнова – герой Советского Союза»
в 9 классе
Цель: совершенствовать навыки полного понимания содержания адаптированных текстов о военных событиях, выделения главной информации в тексте, составления краткого пересказа прочитанного, развивать умение работать в группах.
Задачи:
пополнить активный и пассивный словарь учащихся, познакомив с военной лексикой;
научить понимать тексты о военных событиях;
научить говорить о военных событиях, о подвиге юных героев войны в прошедших временах;
развивать интерес к историческому прошлому нашей страны;
воспитывать чувство патриотизма;
формировать правильное представление о событиях прошлого у современных школьников.
Оснащение урока: записи песен “День Победы” и “Хотят ли русские войны”, видеопроектор, на экране портрет Зины Портновой и картинки по содержанию рассказа. Тексты взяты из книги для чтения на английском языке Stories about Young heroes, Valieva I. V., Soroka I. B., Sukhomlinova T.R. Moscow, Prosvescheniye, 1984.
Ход урока.
Good morning, pupils. You know that our country is going to celebrate a great holiday on the 9 of May – 70th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War. Every year War veterans in large cities and small villages come together to celebrate Victory Day. They traditionally go to the War memorials to honor the memory of war heroes. But the numbers of them become fewer from year to year. Time takes that historic day farther away from us, but we must always remember it because it is closely related to our grandparents or great grandparents who did all their best to bring this victory close. Our country lost more than 20 millions of people in that war and saved the world from fascism. We should never forget those who gave their lives for our Motherland. And our lesson today is devoted to the War heroes.
Warming-up
Pupils, I want you to listen to one of the most famous poems of the times of the Great Patriotic War and guess about its title and the author. (Звучит стихотворение «Жди меня» К. Симонова).
Name the words which are associated with the word “war”.
Work on vocabulary
Name the words which are associated with the word “war”.
Read and translate the words.
Byelorussia tears Nazis
tread prisoner leaflet
antifascist pan interrogation
fetch seize the revolver posthumously
feat defeat spirit
Reading
Now we are going to work in groups. Each group will read an extract from the story about a Russian girl Zina Portnova and do exercises to the texts.
Zina Portnova, Hero of the Soviet Union
Group I
“Look, she’s coming over to us. Who is that girl?”
Fruza Zenkova, secretary of the underground committee only smiled and answered:
“That’s Zina Portnova. I’ve heard a lot about her already. She wants to join us.”
Some of the members knew the girl, but many had never seen her anywhere before, and they fell silent as she came towards them. There was a very young girl with short thick hear and large beautiful eyes in front of them.
“I’m from Leningrad. I came to Byelorussia during the school holidays to see my grandmother. With my sister. When the war began, we couldn’t get back home to Leningrad. I live in the village of Zuyi. I have passed into the 8th form.” She paused: it seemed as if she was thinking about something. Then she went on:
“You may wonder what has brought me to you. I know what you are thinking. You think I’m too small and can’t do anything useful. But that’s a mistake. I see and understand everything.”
She went on with her story. She told the group what she had seen in the village where she was living. The Germans had arrested a lot of people and killed some of them. Tears came into her eyes when she spoke of how the nazis had treaded a group of Soviet prisoners of war. All of them had been shot because the Germans had found a few pieces of bread on them. They tried to make them say where they had got the bread from, but the prisoners refused to answer.
“The nazis kill our people. But I want to live,” she said.
“Perhaps, it doesn’t matter to you how you live, so long as you live?” Fruza asked.
“Oh, no, not that. I want to live just the way I did before the war. Even better. Only without nazis. I hate them so much.”
Before the war her life had been quiet and happy. Everything had seemed so clear and simple. The whole world lay open to her. Her father worked at a big plant, her mother had a job in an office. She was an excellent pupil at school.
The secretary of the committee was very pleased to hear the girl talking like this. She took to her at once. “I have a feeling that this girl is quite ready to do any job now,” she thought.
So Zina Portnova became a candidate member of the Obol underground organization. The members warned Zina that it would be very difficult to work behind the enemy lines. They told her she must be careful and if she did anything wrong they might all get into trouble.
“I’ve already thought of that. That’s why I’m here. I’m a pioneer,” she said firmly. So they decided to try her out.
The first job she got was to hand out leaflets and newspapers to the people living in nearby villages. She did that together with a boy named Zhenya Yezovitov. He was a very brave young fellow. They managed to get anti-fascist newspapers to many villages. They wanted as many people as possible to read the papers. Zina was really proud that the two of them could be so helpful and that the truth was now known to everybody.
Several months went by. Zina had changed a lot. She now looked quite a grown-up girl and everyone saw that she was a very helpful member of the underground organization. The partisans soon realized she could be trusted with all kinds of jobs, even dangerous ones. Both the partisans and the members of the underground organization knew she would never let them down even if it cost her life. And they were not mistaken.
Read the text and find the answers to these questions.
Where was Zina Portnova from? Why was she in Byelorussia during the war?
What did Zina tell the members of the underground organization about his life before the war?
How can you prove that Zina hated Nazis and was ready to work as a member of the underground organization?
What was the first job in the organization?
Look at the photo of Zina Portnova. Taking all the facts about Zina into consideration, make a description of this young partisan. Include:
Age and place of birth.
Family and life before the war.
Her attitude to Nazis.
Zina’s appearance and character. Find as many adjectives as possible (not only from the text) to characterize Zina’s appearance and character.
The beginning of her work in the underground organization.
Retell your part according to this plan.
Group II
There was an officers’ mess not far from the school the Germans went to for their training courses. Zina had managed to get a job there. She had to work hard and often felt very tired. Nearly every day she came back home late. But as time went on, she got used to the jobs in the kitchen and she felt that they were becoming easier.
The Germans started to pay attention to the cheerful, young Russian girl. They were pleased that she was hard-working and was able to do all the hard jobs like fetching firewood and water, cleaning tables and sweeping floors. She was ready to carry all kinds of things even if they were heavy for her. But, to tell the truth, she worked in that unpleasant kitchen because she had one clear idea in her mind: to get close to those big pans in which the meals were cooked. Of course, she was told to keep away from them, though the Germans could hardly know that their cheerful kitchen-girl had got some poison and would put it in the pans. She had planned it all out, down to the smallest detail. The committee of the underground organization had accepted her plan. She was only watching her time now. The chance came on the day Zina had to work as a dish-washer. The woman who usually did the washing-up had fallen ill the day before. It was now easier for Zina to get at those pans. But the chief cook and his assistant kept their eyes open on her all the time. She quickly washed the dishes and plates, plates and dishes, more and more of them. She was beginning to feel uneasy with the eyes of the two cooks on her all the time. It seemed to her that the two Germans had guessed what she was going to do; that was why they were both hanging about her.
At last the German officers started coming into the hall. They all sat down and dinner began. The waitresses had to move quickly among the tables. Zina was waiting for a chance to be left alone in the kitchen and drop the poison into one of the pans.
One of the girls brought a beefsteak to a German officer. The meat was so tough that he could not eat it. It made him very angry.
“What do you call this?” he shouted at the waitress.
“Beefsteak”, she answered in a very low voice.
“No, you’re lying. How can I possibly eat that? It’s like shoe-leather,” the German said.
“But I didn’t cook it,” the waitress said. Her eyes were full of tears. “I only serve it, that’s all I do…”
Then the officer asked to call the chief cook: he wanted to talk to him. That was the very moment Zina was waiting for.
Meanwhile the other cook, a fat and rather slow German, ask Zina to go and fetch some firewood. Zina came back quickly with it and when the cook opened the stove door to look at the fire and put a few logs on it, Zina emptied the packets of poison into the pan of soup.
More than one hundred nazi officers died that day. The Germans were terribly alarmed. They knew everything and everybody had been under the strict control. Of course, they suspected that Zina or some of the waitresses might know something. But they were not sure. Both cooks said that hadn’t let anyone near the food. They were afraid for themselves. However, they made Zina to taste the soup. Zina knew that if she refused they would immediately understand the she knew the soup was poisoned. She did not give herself away. With a great effort she took a mouthful of it.
“The girl will die,” said the chief cook.
Soon Zina felt sick.
“Good, good,” said the cook. “Now go home.”
It was very difficult for the girl to get back to the village Zuyi where she lived. She came home totally exhausted. Her grandmother made her drink nearly two litres of warm milk. Then she fell asleep. She was soon quite well again.
Do the following tasks.
Find in the text the sentences which describe Zina’s job in the kitchen of Nazis’ dining-room.
What a clear idea was in her mind?
How could Zina fulfill her plan?
What was the result of her action for German soldiers?
What was the matter with Zina after that?
Think what feelings overflew Zina’s heart during that day.
What traits of character helped her to carry out her plan?
Draw scenery how Zina prepared and managed to carry out her plan. Make a story.
Group III
Several months went by and the commander of the partisan detachment sent Zina to get in touch with those members of the youth organization who remained alive.
On her way back to the forest she was stopped by a deserter. His name was Mikhail Grechukhin. She was taken to the Obol Gestapo for questioning.
“What’s your name?” asked a German lieutenant.
“Maria Kozlova. I work in a brick-yard,” the girl answered.
“Well, Maria Kozlova…” he said and left the room. A minute later he returned followed by Grechukhin. The traitor looked at the girl and said:
“Zinaida Portnova, when did you change your name?”
The secret was now out. The German had known her real name; he just wanted to make sure of it. Then the girl was taken off to prison and savagely beaten. The nazis wanted to find out all about the other partisans, their hiding-place and so on, but they could not make her talk.
Zina was then taken to a special room for interrogation and it was a different officer who spoke to her. He was a captain, the chief of the Obol Gestapo. When he came in, he was very surprised to find a small, slender young girl who looked almost a child, she was pale and confused. He told her to sit down. Zina felt nervous, but she didn’t show it. She looked at the iron-barred windows and thought, “A person can’t easily get out of here.”
He wanted her to tell him the names of the other partisans and their leaders. He was sure Zina would open her mouth. But he could not get her to talk.
“Well, I’m waiting. Come here, Zinaida Portnova,” the German said. Zina made a few steps forward.
“Why won’t you talk? You aren’t a Communist or a Komsomol!” he said.
“Now you are mistaken!” Zina cried out. “I was a pioneer and now I can say I’m a Komsomol,” she said in a loud voice.
The German became furious with anger. He raised his arm and struck her on the chest. The blow threw her backwards and she hit her head against the wall. When she got to her feet, she looked so small, so helpless in front of that tall nazi officer.
“I will not shoot you,” the German said. “I know what you did. It was you who killed our officers with the poison you put in the food. You’ll be hanged!”
He sat down at the table and began to write. Just then he heard the sound of a car outside the building. He went to the window to see who had come, and then suddenly turned around and dashed back to the table. But Zina had been too quick for him. She had already seized the revolver, and the German had no time to act. Zina fired at him and he sank to the floor. At this moment another officer, who had heard the shot, ran into the room, but he too was killed on the spot.
Zina dashed out of the room, down the corridor and across the yard into the garden. Now she could see the bank of the river and she ran still faster. She knew the big forest was beyond it. She was only thinking of how quickly she could get to it. She knew that the distance was not too great, but it would be some minutes before she was out of danger.
A number of German soldiers were already chasing her. She stopped and managed to shoot one of them; but the rest were still behind her. She pulled the trigger again, but the revolver would not fire. There were no more cartridges in it.
They got her on the very bank of the river. She was shot near a small pine-tree on a cold January morning in 1944.
So it was that her short life closed. The young girl from Leningrad died, but the feat she performed turned into a legend. Zina Portnova was posthumously given the highest award and became Hero of the Soviet Union.
Match the headings to the parts of the text
Chasing
Zina’s interrogation
Zina was taken to the Obol Gestapo
I’m a Komsomol
Perished but not surrender
Two shots
Zina’s confession
Look at the pictures; describe the last feat of Zina Portnova
Read in roles a talk between Zina and the officer during the interrogation (mind the intonation)
Try to make a description of Zina’s appearance and feelings during her interrogation and escape.
Retell the story about the last days of Zina’s life.
Presentations of short retellings of the story “Portrait of a hero”
Reflexion.
Is it interesting for you to learn about young heroes of the Great Patriotic War?
What other heroes do you know?
Would you like to follow their examples?
Now, will you stand up. Let’s honor the memory of war heroes.
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