Lesson 1. TV-series "Sherlock" (BBC)
Type of the lesson: English practice Age of students: 19-20 (3rd year students) General topic of the unit: Art and entertainment Topic of the class: Cinema Goals of the class: develop listening and speaking skills, and the ability to express personal opinion of the topic, learning new words. Goals of the activity: reading and listening comprehension. Dear students! Today we talk about TV and cinema and watch the episode from a famous British TV-series "Sherlock". At first you must know the difference between words serial and series . A TV series is a program that runs for a number of weeks and each week is a new episode eg: Sex in the Sity, House MD etc. A TV serial is usually a fictional story that is ‘broken up’ into a number of episodes eg: Santa Barbara, The Thornbirds etc. A TV serials are not so common now as they were about 20 years ago, the actual meaning has probably become blurred and the two are interchangeable. " S...
