Конспект урока английского языка 9 класс "Happiness"

Ход урока

- Good morning, my dear friends. I am happy to see you again. I hope you are ready to start our English lesson. So, let’s begin.
- I have got a crossword puzzle for our beginning. It is this sheet of paper on your desks.

- Let’s try to solve it and find all words and particularly our key word. I will ask you some questions, try to answer them.

Crossword puzzle

1. Where do you study, what is the name of a building where you go5 days a week?
2. As you know there are 4 seasons which of them has 4 months. What season is it now?
3. There are 7 days in a week. I want you to name today’s day.
4. It is a person who works in school. Who helps you to learn, to get knowledge in different subjects.
5. Can you describe today’s weather? What’s the weather like usually in spring?

- And now I will show you some pictures. Try to guess the common emotion, the common feeling on these pictures.
- Yes you are right – the topic of our today’s lesson is happiness, and reasons to be happy.

- You know I‘ve made a short video for you about hat is happiness. Look at the screen, please. While watching try to make your own ideas.
- Your own reasons to be happy. (Video - happiness is…Happiness (from video) is:

- Doing absolutely nothing, landing somewhere new, Burgers and chocolate, learning a new language, passing all your exam, seeing your parents in a good health, loving and be loved, get a gift you really love, when someone says you are beautiful, doing what you love.

- As you can see, the reasons to be happy are different. There are no universal, or common, or one main definitions of happiness.
- By the way we will do different kinds of tasks today. Now we will start with speaking.

Continue: 1. I feel happy when…. 2. …makes me happy 3. I will be happy if I have ….

- Today we will have several workshops and try to explain the word "Happiness" from different sides.
- We will work in pairs. You will work with your partner, you have to solve your task in a creative way.
- After 5 minutes you will each workshop will present all of us your solution. Are you ready? So choose our workshops.

Workshops

Art: Draw* what you would consider a happy or ideal day. Or: Paint a portrait* of a happy person’s face and explain all the elements that make that person’s face happy.
Health: Make a list of top ten happiness foods; give explanations. Or: Think of 10-15 activities that make you happy.

Science: Think of animals and plants* you associate with happiness and explain why. Or: Describe* "happy" weather and "happy" climate in your understanding.
English learning: Write a poem about happiness using words: sun, fun, happy, puppy, tree, agree, play, day .

People around you: Write a "Happy class" manual (with 5 rules or recommendations) how to be happy at school.
Technology and innovation: Tell about 3kinds of gadgets or devices that make people happier and say how.

- And now your time is over. I hope you are ready. One of you will read the task and the other will answer, Ok?
- Great job! Excellent! Well done. Now I want you to assess your classmates work. Here you can take stars of different color.
- Take only one star and put it near the workshop which was the best in your opinion. As for me, all of you did a great job. Thank you.

And now I want you to read a Chinese proverb - "If you want happiness for an hour - take a nap. If you want happiness for a day - go fishing. If you want happiness for a month - get married. If you want happiness for a year - inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime - help someone else". Chinese Proverb

- I wish you to be happy. But not only by having some things like modern gadgets, or money.
- But try to be happy by admiring the world around you, sharing your positive feelings with your family, friends, classmates, just people around you and helping them. Your happy emotions will double and return to you and you will be great, satisfied.

- Now your homework: There are sheets of paper with your homework. Try to explain, how these parts of your body can make you happy.
- For example? Your eyes and happiness – how are they connected? Is it clear?
- Thanks a lot. Now I want you to read a story "The house of 1000 mirrors"

The House of 1000 Mirrors

Long ago in a small, far away village, there was a place known as the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and decided to visit. When he arrived, he bounced happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail wagging as fast as it could.

To his great surprise, he found himself staring at 1000 other happy little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was answered with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he left the house, he thought to himself, "This is a wonderful place. I will come back and visit it often." (try to predict, what will happen next)

In this same village, another little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, decided to visit the house. He slowly climbed the stairs and hung his head low as he looked into the door.

When he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was horrified to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, "That is a horrible place, and I will never go back there again."

What is the aim of a story? You know all faces around us are mirrors. You get your reflected emotions. So try to give only happy feelings to people around you.
Thank you. Now I want to summarize or make a conclusion by saying: be happy, be healthy, be at your best!