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Dive into a prehistoric adventure! Discover dinosaurs through language, drawings, and reports. Learn about their habits, sizes, and features while exploring the Jurassic era.
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WE ARE GOING TO LEARN ABOUT DINOSAURS5a, 5bSchool 1242Supervisors I.I. Agareva, G.V. ChuprovaOctober, 2010
Agenda • Introduction • Warming up (We visited the Paleontological Museum) • Learning new words (pronunciation contest) • Reading (matching descriptions to pictures) • Reading and listening (filling in the table) • Giving the summary • Project Work: drawing a picture of a dinosaur and describing it • Homework – writing a report
WE VISITED THE PALEONTOLOGICAL MUSEUM …
The dinosaur fossils were found in many countries … Africa ['æfrɪkə] Canada ['kænədə] The USA India ['ɪndɪə] Mongolia [mɔŋ'gəulɪə] Argentina [ɑ:ʤ(ə)n'ti:nə] Russia Tanzania [‘tænzə'ni:ə] China ['ʧaɪnə] Spain [speɪn] Europe [['juərəp], ] United Kingdom
PRONONCIATION CONTEST E H G I D C J F B A
CHEEKS LIZARD [[ʧi:k]] ['lɪzəd] BEAK [bi:k] NOSTRILS HORN ['nɔstr(ə)l] [hɔ:n] JAWS [ʤɔ:] PLATES [pleɪt] SPIKES [spaɪk] CLAWS [klɔ:] BACKBONE ['bækbəun]
3 4 1 choose a dinosaur you like best Read some information and find your dinosaurs in the picture 5 2
D K B A C I E F H J G
LISTEN TO THE DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME DINOSAURSCOMPLETE THE TABLE
LOOK THROUGH the 1ST TABLECHOOSE INFORMATION AND COMPLETE THE the2ND TABLE
When dinosaurs lived on the earthTwo hundred million years agoSome were fast and some were slowTwo hundred million years ago Some ate plants and some ate meatThey chewed it all with giant jawsThey walked along on giant feetWith giant paws and giant claws They had long necks and scaly tailsThey were much bigger than three whalesSome had spikes and some had hornsThat made them look like unicorns When dinosaurs lived on the earthTwo hundred million years agoThey laid their eggs upon the sandTwo hundred million years ago The dinosaurs lived on the earthTwo hundred million years agoWe’ll never ever hear them roar -‘Cause they don’t live here anymore.
HOMEWORK Write a report about a dinosaur. It can be a real dinosaur or you can make on up! Complete the information below. Write a description.
1 VELOCIRAPTOR /vɨ-lɒsɨræptər/ • Name means: speedy thief • Lived 85 – 80 million years ago • Where: Mongolia, Russia and China • Diet: Meateater (hunted in packs) • Size: 2 metres long and 1 metre tall • Features: it could run up to 60 km an hour; it had a 9 cm long claw on the middle toe of each foot TYRANOSAURUS /taɪ-rænɵ-sɔrəs/ • Name means tyrant lizard king • Lived: 65 – 85 million years ago • Found in: USA, Canada, Mongolia • Diet: Meateater (it hunted alone) • Size: 12 metres long and 6 metres tall • Features: It could eat 230 kg of meat and bones at one bite, it had a heavy head and a long heavy tail
2 TROODON /-troʊ.-dɒn/ • Name means: wounding tooth • Lived 76 – 70 million years ago • Where: USA, Canada • Diet: Meateater • Size: 3 metres long and 2 metre tall • Features: it was probably the most intelligent dinosaur; it moved fast on two legs TRICERATOPS /traɪ-sɛrətɒps/ • Name means: three-horn face • Lived: 72 – 65 million years ago • Found in: USA, Canada • Diet: Planteater (it probably ate low-lying plants) • Size: 9 metres long and 3 metres tall • Features: It had three horns on its face; its head was nearly one third as long as its body
3 STEGOSAURUS /-stɛɡɵ-sɔrəs/ • Name means: plated lizard or roof lizard • Lived 156 – 140 million years ago • Where: USA, Western Europe, India, Mongolia, Southern Africa • Diet: Planteater (it probably ate low-growing plants) • Size: 9 metres long and 3 metre tall • Features: it had two rows of bony plates on its back and four long spikes at the end of its tail IGUANODON /ɨ-ɡwɑ-nədɒn/ • Name means: Iguana tooth • Lived: 135 – 125 million years ago • Found in: Europe, Northern Africa, USA, Mongolia • Diet: Planteater • Size: 9 metres long and 5 metres tall • Features: It had a beak with no teeth; its teeth were in its cheeks; it had a claw for a thumb
4 BRACHIOSAURUS /-brəkiɔ- -sɔrəs / • Name means: arm lizard • Lived 156 – 145 million years ago • Where: North America and Tansania • Diet: Planteater (it probably ate the tops of trees) • Size: 13 metres tall and 25 metres long • Features: its nostrils were on the top of its head BARYONYX /-bæri-ɒnɨks/ • Name means: heavy claw • Lived: 125 million years ago • Found in: United Kingdom, Spain • Diet: Meateater (it probably mostly ate fish) • Size: 8 - 10 metres long and 5 metres tall • Features: 30 cm long claws on its hands; jaws like a crocodile
5 GIGANOTOSAURUS /-dʒaɪɡə-noʊtə-sɔrəs/ • Name means: giant southern reptile • Lived 100 – 90 million years ago • Where: Argentina • Diet: Meateater • Size: 14 metres long • Features: it was the largest meat-eating dinosaur DIPLODOCUS /dɪ-plɒdəkəs/ • Name means: double-beamed • Lived: 155 – 145 million years ago • Found in: USA • Diet: planteater (it probably used its long neck to reach plants in the middle of woods) • Size: 27 metres long with an 8 metre long neck and a 14 metre long tail • Features: It had extra bones below its backbone
Paleontological Museum named after Yu.A.Orlov of the Paleontological Institute of RAS • The Paleontological Museum of the Paleontological Institute is one of the largest specialized museums of paleontology. Its history goes back to the "Kunstkamer" founded by Peter the Great in 1716, to house his collection of mammalian bones and teeth from the Ice age together with some other material on natural history. • Modern museum building was built for Paleontological Museum by the architect Yuri Platonov. • One of the most interesting peculiarities of the Museum is the combination of the display of natural materials with artistic monumental decoration, showing the evolution of life on the Earth. • The Paleontological Museum includes 6 halls and the expositions area is 4200 sq.m. The exhibits show the developmental history of organic world on the Earth. • Most of collections are unique, containing fossil fauna and flora of passed geological epochs from many regions of Russia, Mongolia, China and some other countries. • One of the most interesting exhibits was the so-called North Dvina Gallery, which showed a series of skeletons on the bank of the River Malaya Severnaya Dvina in Arkhangelsk Province at the beginning of the century.
giganotosaurus D B K diplodocus A tyranossaurus C stegosaurus velociraptor I E F brachiosarus H baryonyx troodon J G triceratops iguanodon