Тема: 6.1. Обучение детей с нарушениями зрения и слуха.
Органы чувств. Грамматика: модальные глаголы, обзор, особенности модальных глаголов can,
may.
Количество часов: 2
Цель: формирование лексических навыков. Формирование грамматических навыков
Теоретический блок. The senses
I. Актуализация имеющихся знаний.
Answer the questions:
· What are the 5 sense organs?
· What are the 7 senses of the body?
· Why are sense organs important? How do sense organs help us?
· Is there a sixth sense? What is it?
· Which is the largest sense organ? What is the smallest one?
· What is the 8th sense?
· How do our senses protect us?
· Which is the strongest sense?
· Why is learning the 5 senses important?
II. Новая информация
Read the article. Check whether you gave the correct answers to the questions. Find the information you did not know.
| The senses A sense is our ability to detect stimuli which we interpret and respond to accordingly. Senses are important because they allow us to perceive the world in which we live. Our five senses are our sense of sight (also known as vision), smell (olfaction), hearing (audition), taste (gustation), and touch (somatosensation). Humans are not the only creatures with sensory capacity – animals have senses too. The degrees of sensory capability vary among species. Some animals have a weaker sense of smell than others. Some have a sharper sense of sight, etc. We can use all five of our senses at the same time without even realising it. Not everyone is able to use all five of their senses. If someone cannot see, they are blind; if someone cannot hear, they are deaf. The sense organs are the body organs by which humans are able to see, smell, hear, taste, and touch or feel. The five sense organs are the eyes (for seeing), nose (for smelling), ears (for hearing), tongue (for tasting), and skin (for touching or feeling). There are two types of receptors depending on the sensory organ: general receptors and special receptors. General receptors are present in the skin and muscles. Special receptors are photoreceptors (in the eyes), chemoreceptors (in the mouth and nose), and mechanoreceptors (in the ears). Most people think there are just 5 senses, but besides the listed below, we have vestibular (movement) and proprioception. Vestibular is the movement and balance sense, which gives us information about where our head and body are in space. It helps us stay upright when we sit, stand, and walk. Proprioception (Body Position): the body awareness sense, which tells us where our body parts are relative to each other. It also gives us information about how much force to use, when we do something like crack an egg and don’t want to crash it in our hands. Intuition, or a sixth sense, is something many of us rely on for judgments and important decisions. A 2008 study in the British Journal of Psychology defined intuition as what happens when the brain applies to past experiences and external cues to make a decision -- but it happens so fast that the reaction is at an unconscious level. Did you know that the skin, the largest sense organ of the body, is the interface between the organism and its environment. Some parts of the skin are more sensitive than others – this is because they have more receptor cells. Smell is in fact the strongest human sense, and contrary to popular belief, may be just as powerful as in dogs and rodents. As one of the five major senses, you could say that our sense of smell is the least important. Sight, hearing, and touch may seem more important than smell. But never tell that to someone who has lost their sense of smell entirely! We taste food using both our sense of taste and smell. We need our sense of smell in order to taste properly – if you hold your nose shut while you eat, the taste won’t be as strong. It’s why food sometimes tastes plain when we have a cold and our nose is blocked up. Our tongue can have 2,000-8,000 taste buds on it! There are four kinds of taste receptors on the tongue – bitter, sweet, salt and sour. It’s fun to experiment with your senses – for example, try to guess products with your eyes closed and nose blocked. Senses allow us to observe and understand the world around us. Our senses send messages through receptor cells to our brain, using our nervous system to deliver that message.Our senses also protect us by warning of dangers in our surroundings. Information gathered by the sense organs is sent along nerves to the brain. The brain then sends messages to the body telling it how to respond. |
III. Усвоение и применение информации
Write out the unknown words in bold and give their Russian equivalents.
2. Watch the video for kids to hear the English speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1xNuU7gaAQ and to learn some new information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUIYflGxG8M (the 1st episode till 3:37).
3. Express your point of view:
1) Do you think the intuition really exists? Have you ever applied to your intuition to make a choice? Tell the story if so.
2) What is the main/most important sense for a human?
3) Do you know any people whose senses are developed to a high degree? Tell a story.