A Portrait of a Good Politician

1.Определение темы, постановка цели урока.

Look at the pictures and guess the topic of our lesson. What are we going to talk

about?

Are these people good or bad politicians? It’s difficult to answer this question but

today we’ll try to do it because the name of our lesson is “A portrait of a good

politician”. So, what is the aim of our lesson?

(to find out the traits of character necessary for a good politician)

2. Актуализация изученного материала.

a)Аукцион.

I’m sure, it’s impossible to imagine a good politician without a stylish pen. They

often use it to sign different documents. Look, I’ve got a fashionable pen too. Do

you like it? Of course, you like it. It’s really nice. Now you’ve got a unique chance

to buy it, if you know different traits of people’s character, both positive and

negative.

b) “Назвать черты характера по их описанию»

Now I want to see how you understand the meaning of these words. Name people’s

characteristics by their descriptions.

(honest,

sociable,

gifted/talented,

ambitious,

eloquent,

self-confident,

ruthless/cruel, reserved, fair, unfair, patient, impatient, wise, hard-working, lazy,

courageous/brave, cunning, mobile, patriotic, kind, disciplined, risky, charismatic,

tolerant, reliable, bright, power-loving, nervous, intelligent, selfish, well-educated)

1. He or she has the ability to move quickly from place to place - mobile

2. He or she has the ability to wait for success for a long time – patient

3. He or she always tells the truth – honest

4. He or she has the ability to communicate with other people easily - sociable

5. He or she loves his country very much - patriotic

6. He or she doesn’t show feelings - reserved

7. He or she doesn’t like to work very much- lazy

8. A person believes in himself/herself, feels that he or she is attractive and can do

things successfully– self-confident

9. He or she has a natural ability to do smth. well – gifted/talented

10. He or she has a strong wish to be successful, powerful or rich – ambitious

11. He or she has good education – well-educated

12. Has oratory skills, gives a clear, strong message – eloquent

13. A person who loves risk – risky

14. Extremely unkind and unpleasant and causing pain to people or animals –

ruthless/cruel

15. He or she has the ability of treating everybody equally – fair

16. A person always doing a lot of work – hard-working

17. Has deep knowledge, deep understanding and experience of life – wise

18. He or she loves to control people and events – power-loving

19. Having or showing courage/brave - courageous

20. He or she has the ability to respect behavior, points of view, beliefs different

from his/hers – tolerant

21. Worried a lot – nervous

22. He or she is clever, can learn and understand things easily – intelligent /bright

23. This person naturally has a special power, thanks to it he or she can influence

other people and attract their attraction and admiration – charismatic

24. Such people think only of their own advantage – selfish

25. Clever at planning something so that they get what they want, especially by

tricking other people - cunning

4. Описание характера реальных политиков

I see that you know traits of people’s character perfectly well. And now it’s time to

describe the character of some real modern politicians using these words.

(Путин, Жириновский, Трамп)

5. Exam Practice. Reading.

Donald Trump was elected the President of the USA two years ago. The second

candidate for this post was Hilary Clinton. By the way, do you know how

US

presidential elections work?

You know that at the exam at the end of the ninth form you will have to read the

text and do similar tasks. And four of you have chosen this exam. So, it will be a

very useful task for you.

6. I see that you are really tired and you deserve a short rest. Of course, you are not

small children to do exercises. You will sing. You will sing political rap.

Физкультминутка. Political Rap.

A good politician must be ………

A good politician must be ………

A good politician must be ………

A good politician must be ………

7. Exam practice. Аудирование.

By the way, do you know this beautiful girl? This is Pink, an American pop singer.

She is popular not only with her songs about love and friendship but also with her

song «Dear Mr. President». Pink said that this song was an open letter to the

President of the USA, George Bush, and that was one of the most important songs

she had ever written. Listen to the song and fill in the gaps in your cards. We’ll

listen to the song twice.

Now let’s read and translate the song.

Answer the question: What`s the message of the song? What is the main idea

of this song and how is it connected with the topic of our lesson?

8. Correction Mistakes. Work in pairs.

And now I want you to read one comment about this song from one of the

American forums. Your task will be to find some mistakes in it. You will work in

pairs.

Let’s translate these words.

Do you agree with these words about politicians?

9. Домашнее задание.

Your hometask for the next lesson will be to write a letter to our President

V.V.Putin. You know, our President speaks English pretty well and so he can read

and understand your letter. It should be about the problems that worry you and

your parents, the problems of our town, our country. Your letter shouldn’t be very

long, just about the size of a page. You know, our President is a busy person and

he doesn’t have time to read long letters. Have you got questions? Is it clear?

10. Подведение итогов урока.

Our lesson is coming to an end. Let’s remember the aim of our lesson. Have we

found out the traits of character necessary for a good politician? Have we achieved

our aim?

11. Рефлексия.

Politicians often give speeches before people and use microphones. Now I want

you to take my microphone and say something about our lesson, try to analyze it.

What was easy?

What was difficult?

What part of the lesson did you like most of all?

Would you like to be a politician yourself? Why/Why not?

Thank you for the lesson!