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3. Approbation of technology in teaching communication

We have developed and approbated 10 lessons using the communicative activities for the 7th Form of the secondary school.

Approbation was held at Ushakovskaya school, Karasusky district, Kostanay region.
10 lessons were conducted.
Conditions of approbation:
There were computers for each pupil, interactive board, tape-recorder, video-recorder, multimedia.
Lessons were designed for the group of 14 pupils with middle and high level of the English language.
Procedure of approbation
Lesson 1
Topic: "Environmental problems”Date: 8.10.2011
Aim: to develop communicative competence.
Objectives:
encouraging dialogue skills,
perfection of listening skills with a support on the read text,
development of ability to a logic statement of the text,
development of speech habits on the situation
developing of ecological thinking and conducting.

#	Stage (ESA)	Procedure	Time	Materials	Note
1	Organization moment	Teacher: Good afternoon dear children! Glad to see you. Today we are going to speak about environmental problems. We’ll practice our skills in speaking, reading and listening. I wish you to be calm and to work well.	2 min
2	Engage	Look at the screen, please. Let’s see the first slide - the topic of the lesson and the second slide - the inscription and try to translate it: "People will be lost from inability to use forces of the nature and from ignorance of the true world"-the inscription on a pyramid of Cheops.	2 min	1-2 slides of the presentation
3	Study	And now, let’s speak about nature and environmental problems. But at the beginning look at the blackboard and read the words which help us understand the information from the text (see Appendix to the lesson 1)	3 min	words
4	Activate	Reading the text. Using the words. "The Earth’s atmosphere" - see Attachment to the lesson	7 min	Text "The Earth’s atmosphere. ”
5	Activate