I Have a Dream!

Сценарий урока "Dreams"

Teacher: Today we are going to dream a lot and to discuss quite a lot of interesting things. But before we start dreaming, I need two experts. They will look up the word “dream” in the dictionary and provide us with a professional view on it. While they are working, we will try to predict what a dream is.

Учащиеся делают свои предположения.

Teacher: Ok, thank you very much. Now it’s high time to see what our experts will tell us. Dear experts, you are welcome.

Expert 1: a series of thoughts, images, and feelings that you experience when you are asleep.

Expert 2: something you hope for and want to happen very much, a wish.

Teacher: So the word “dream” has two meanings and perhaps our night dreams are the reflections of our dreams in real life. Let’s survey what you dream about and whether your dreams of today are different from your childhood dreams. Divide into 3 groups and within each group find out what your dreams were when you were children and what they are now.

CONDUCTING A SURVEY What do 15-year-olds dream about? • • • • • •

Учащиеся работают в группах, проводят социологический опрос. Представляют результаты по группам. Учащимся предлагается использовать следующие фразы: The survey shows that ...; The majority dreams about …; Such dreams as ... are highly rated.

Teacher: Thank you very much. Were the expected results what you got? So we can conclude that when people don’t possess food, water and shelter, their dreams tend to ..... (Ученики дают вывод.) material needs. When they have the necessities of life, they start dreaming of .... (Ученики дают вывод.), education and career. So we can say that our dreams depend on our needs. But do you agree that what we have discussed so far is connected with personal dreams? There are such extraordinary people whose dreams are not personal, who don’t dream about their own prosperity. Well, let’s listen to one such person and see what his dream was.

I Have a Dream

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed – “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal.”

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day the state of Alabama, whose governor’s lips are presently dripping with the words of interposition and nullification, will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, and rough places will be made plains, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

Teacher: Who was speaking? What did he do? What was unusual about his dream?

Можно предложить учащимся следующую информацию о Мартине Лютере Кинге.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, African Americans, led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., used boycotts, marches, and other forms of nonviolent protest to demand equal treatment under the law and an end to racial prejudice. A high point of this Civil Rights Movement came on August 28, 1963, when more than 200,000 people of all races gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., to hear King say: “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Not long afterwards the U.S. Congress passed laws prohibiting discrimination in voting, education, employment, housing, and public accommodations. The world was shocked when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Ever since, special memorial services have marked his birthday on January 15. By vote of Congress, the third Monday of every January, beginning in 1986, is now a federal holiday in Dr. King’s honor.

Teacher: Do your dreams correlate with his? Let’s try to dream in his way. What do you want your country to be in the future? What do you dream to do for your motherland? For instance, I want my country to reduce the number of poor people.

На доске появляется плакат “I want my country ...”, я прикрепляю свою идею на него.

Teacher: I am sure you can add a lot to my idea.

Учащиеся пишут на месте, подходят и прикрепляют свои идеи на плакат.

Возможные ответы учащихся: entrance to university, independence, money, wealth, own flat, car, significant half, mutual love, good marks at school, children, future profession, successful career, to leave school, as soon as possible, fame, peace, state prosperity, health.

Teacher: So, thank you very much for your work and cooperation. I am sure that our dear country will definitely prosper while such people live here. Thanks a lot for what you have done.