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History of Clock Making

What we already know about the time:

• What are the two types of clocks?

• What parts of clocks do you know?

• Can you tell the time?• What do you want to

learn about the clocks?• What should we do for

that?

There are …

I know …

I want to learn about …

We should …

Phonetic drill:[Λ]lunch

compassother

sundialRussia

company

[aʊ(ə)]countdown

aroundnow

outsidetower

hourglass

[ɔ:]strawbeforeNorth

[æ]candle

sand-glassmechanicshadowplastic

[ɜ:]Earthearlyworld

Guess the proverbs:

Time is money.Time flies.

Time and tide wait for no man.

What famous clocks and clock towers do you know?.

History of Clock Making

Watch a video and do the tasks:1) Match the clocks with their names.2) Say when we can’t use the sundials.3) When was the mechanical clock invented?

sundial

candle clock

hourglasssand-glass

mechanical clock

atomic (digital)

clock

unveil(ed) [Λnveil]-

торжественно открыватьhost [həʊst]city- город,

принимающий игрыtime zones – часовые пояса

Watch the video and guess the clock:

1. In May, 2011, OMEGA (the famous clock company) unveiled a clock in the host city that will count down the days, hours, minutes and seconds to the Opening …

Put the parts of the text in correct order:

3. ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games. On the 7th of February, 2013, one year before the start of the Olympic Winter Games, OMEGA unveiled Countdown Clocks in eight other …

4. cities of Russia. The nine cities that are now home to an OMEGA Countdown Clock are the host city Sochi, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Pyatigorsk, Novosibirsk …

2. and Khabarovsk. They are nine because Russia is the world’s largest country and has nine time zones. These clocks are 3.5 metres …

5. high and are made in the same design as the Olympic Sochi clock. And only Moscow’s Countdown Clock is red, not blue.

Let’s sing!

Olympic Countdown Clocks

Answer the questions:

1. What does the Olympic Clock in Sochi count?

2. How many Countdown Clocks are there in Russia?

3. Why are they nine?

4. What’s the size of the Clocks?

5. What colour are the Clocks?

Sundials

5000 years ago

Sundials use shadowsShadow is a dark spot

The longest shadow is in the morning/ afternoon

How sundials work

Answer the questions:

1. When were the first sundials made?

2. How do the sundials work?

3. Can we use the sundials at night?

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