Вишневецкая Надежда Васильевна,
учитель английского языка
МОУ «Гимназия №1 г. Нерюнгри», Республика САХА (Якутия)

Конкурс знатоков английского языка
для обучающихся 6-8 классов
                           (команды по 8-10 человек)
Цели:
1.	Ознакомление с типичными для англоязычных стран интеллектуальными заданиями для детей.
2.	Приобщение к иноязычному общению вне урока.
3.	Развитие творческого потенциала, стремления к поиску неординарного решения.
Задачи:
1.	Дать  учащимся почувствовать себя частью команды.
2.	Выявить скрытый потенциал отдельных учащихся.
3.	Совершенствовать речевые умения учащихся в обстановке непринужденного общения.
Подготовка:
1.	Домашнее задание для команд. Заполнение музыкальных пауз.
2.	Секундомер.
3.	6 ксерокопий к заданиям 2,3,5.
4.	Иллюстрации к загадкам задания 8.
5.	Карточки с предметами к заданиям 1 и 7.
6.	2 квадрата к заданию 4 и образец с заполненным квадратом.
7.	Смешное определение к заданию 6. Перечень слов к этому заданию.
8.	4 копии рассказа к заданию 3.
9.	Листы для жюри.
Task 1
Word Order
Time: 3 minutes.
   Put the words in the correct order to make statements and questions.
Score: 6 – according to the number of correct sentences.
Music pause
Task 2
Prepositions of time
Time: 2 minutes
   Look at the time words and use the correct prepositions. You are to put them in the correct column.
   Score: 15 – according to the number of correct phrases.
Task 3
Contest of Captains
Time: while the teams are fulfilling their 1-2 further tasks.
   Put the parts of the story in the correct order. Mind the punctuation: full stops, commas, question marks.
   Score: the largest number of points – according to the number of correctly arranged sentences.
Task 4
Square Words
Time: 3 minutes
Fill in the gaps in the sentences and complete the squares with the words consisting of 3 letters.
Example:
      D  O  G
O  N  E
G  E  T
       Square 1
1)	I am hungry, let’s…
2)	I am, you …, he is.
3)	Eight, nine, …  
Task 5
Daffy Dictionary
Time: 3 minutes
Read the definition below. Then try to make up your own definitions for the words in the box.
Write the definitions down.
Example:
A skyscraper is a sharp tool on the end of a very long stick. It is used for keeping the sky clean.
butterfly
timetable
keyboard
friendship
oilskin
Music pause
Task 6
20 Questions
Time: 5 minutes
  Try to find out what is in the picture that you can’t see. You are allowed tj ask 20 general or alternative questions.
  The first thing to be guessed, for example, is a vegetable (a carrot).
  The second thing, for example, is a tool (scissors).
        Score: according to the number of correct questions in the case the team has guessed the thing.
Task 7
Illusrtated Riddles
Time: 5 minutes
Think out an unusual answer, perhaps even humorous, to the riddles: 
1)	Why did the little boy throw the clock out of the window? – Becouse he wanted tj see time fly.
2)	What kind of animal has got a head like a cat and a tail like a cat, but isn’t a cat? – A kitten.
3)	3) Why do birds fly south? – Because it’s too far to walk.
4)	How many lions can you put in an empty lion case? One. After that case is njt empty.
5)	What kind of dog has got no tail? – A hot dog.
   Score: 5 - for each interesting answer.

Приложение
1.	К заданию 1
1)	Meet, at, will, cinema, the, you, I, outside, 7, o’clock.
2)	Very, Chinese, speaks, fluently, she.
3)	You, ?, faster, car, mine, than, is.
4)	Often, ?, TV, do, watch, you.
5)	Much, drawer, the, is, typing, in paper, not, there.
6)	?, pass, salt, me, could, you, the, salt.
2.	К заданию 2
March, Saturday, 1914, 4 o’clock, Monday, Christmas, autumn, midnight, September, half past six, March 1st, Tuesday morning, two minutes, Wednesday evening, 2:30, the morning, Friday, a quarter past twelve.
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3.	К заданию 3
Put the parts of the story in the correct order:
1)	“Didn’t I tell you?”
2)	“Take it to the Zoo”
3)	Said the man
4)	A man was walking in the park
5)	“I did”
6)	He still had the penguin
7)	“and he liked me very much”
8)	Answered the policeman
9)	And asked what to do
10)	He asked
11)	“Now I’m taking him to the cinema”
12)	The policeman saw the man again
13)	When he met a penguin
14)	Next day
15)	“To take the penguin to the Zoo
16)	So he took it to a policeman
17)	One day
4.	К заданию 5
  Можно подобрать рецепт с последовательным описанием порядка приготовления.
5.	Лист для жюри:
Название конкурса	Максимальное кол-во баллов	Команда	Команда	Время	

1.Word Order 
	
6-по количеству предложений
			
3	

2. Prepositions of time
	15-по количеству фраз			3	

3. Contest of   Captains
	17-по количеству предложений			2
конкурса	

4. Square Words
	6-по количеству отгаданных слов				

5. Daffy Dictionary
	5-за каждое определение			3	

6. 20 Questions
	
20-за правильные вопросы			
3	

7. Illusrtated Riddles.
	5-по количеству правильно сформулированных ответов			5