Date of preparing:............................................................
Date of teaching:..............................................................
Class: C3-0
Period: 06
MODULE 2: INVENTIONS
Lesson 1: A place in history
I.
Objectives:
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to :
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get the general ideas and sepcific information about some inventors and their
inventions in the world.
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practice and use the simple past and past progressive tenses to make the
sentences.
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acquire some new words and phrases related to the topic « inventions »
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read for general, specific and detailed information about the topic « Animals in
the air »
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give opinions and make discussions about the hot air- balloon in a hypothetical
situation.
II.
Time allowed: 60 minutes
III.
Method:
- Communicative approach: teacher and students, students and students, students
and teacher.
- Work in groups, work in individually, work in pairs.
IV.
Teaching aids:
- Course book “Access grade 9”, posters, cards, chalks, board, pictures, CD,
tape script, computer, projector, hand-outs.
V.
Procedure:
1. Organisation:
- Ask Ss to sing a song before learning new lesson.
Class’ name:
Total of Ss in class:
Absent students’
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names:
Students’ marks:
2. New lesson:
Content
1. Getting started (p.19): Vocabulary: Science
Steps and activities
* Identifying inventions and inventors:
- T asks Ss to look at the porjector
* New words:
and identify the inventions and
- invent>> inventor; invention
inventors in the world.
- discover
- T explains the new words if
- paint
neccessary.
- create
- T asks Ss to read aloud the new
- English currency
words several times.
Some great inventions:
- T asks Ss to copy the new words
- hot- air balloon
on their notebooks.
- radium
- penicillin
- gravity
2. Making sentences:
Structure:
Name (s) of inventor(s)+ Ved/V2 (inventinvented/ discover- discovered/ paint- painted/
create- created)+ Name of the suitable invention
- T gives the example (in Ss’book)
and
explains
the
example
by
analysing the structure.
- T asks Ss to make senetnces by
using
the
fixed
structure.
(Individualworks)
- T calls some Ss to make sentences
by using the provided structure.
3. Skills: Reading and listening (p.20)
Animals in the air!
* New words: (Task 3- page 21)
- laundry
- T asks Ss to describe the picture
of a hot- air ballon by answering
some suggested questions
- T asks Ss to pay attention to the
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- noticed
animals in the hot- air ballon and
- float
leads in the new lesson “Animals in
- power
the air”
- come to the conclusion
- T calls a student to read the title
- lift (v), (n)
and
- capture
paragraph (the headlines paragraph)
- experiments (n)
(T may translate into the mother
- present (v,n)
tongue to get the information
- realise (ize)
easily)
- underneath
- T introduces and gives some new
- safe and sound
words if neccessary (asks Ss to do
- gather (v)
the third task before the step of
- permit (v)>> permission
reading the text)
- afterwards
- T asks Ss to repeat the new words
- human passangers
in several times after the T.
the
short
introduction
- T calls some Ss to repeat the
words.
* Reading comprehension:
Activity 2: Read the text and choose the correct
- T asks Ss to look at the task and
answer. Give reasons:
read the requirements of the task.
Answer Key:
- T explains the way to do the task.
- 1 C – While in front of the fire with his laundry
- T asks Ss to read the sentences
drying he noticed one of his shirts float
and underline the key words in
upwards.
each sentence and find out the
- 2 B – Joseph loved science and wanted to
become an inventor.
relating information in the reading
text to answer and choose the best
- 3 A – ... the heat helped the balloon to float.
answer for the question.
- 4 C – A huge crowd gathered to watch the
- T gives Ss an example
balloon.
- 5 B – The brothers asked the king for
- T asks Ss to work in pairs to
underline the key words and find
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permission to send some men up in the
out the information in the text to
balloon.
compare with the statements.
- T goes around to help Ss if
necessary.
* Playing game “lucky animals”
- T divides the class into 2 groups.
- T gives the rules of the game
“lucky animals”
- T asks Ss to play lucky animals
game.
- T gives the key after getting the
answer from Ss.
- T congratulates the winner with
Ss.
4. Skills: Speaking (p.21)
- T asks Ss to read the requirements
* Activity 5: THINK! How would you feel about of the task.
traveling in a hot- air balloon? How do you - T explains the way to do the task
think it would compare to traveling in a car or and asks Ss to think by themselves
an air plane?
in 1 minute.
* Suggested answers:
- T callls some S s give their
I think it would be scared to travel in a hot- air opinions about this statements or
balloon because I would worry in case it crashed the hypothetical situation in activity
or in case I fell out of the basket. It would 5 (Giving, asking and responding)
probably be more exciting than traveling in a car
or an airplane because it would be amzing
experience.
- T asks Ss to revise the past simple
5. Grammar: Past simple- Past progressive:
and past progressive in groups by
Activity 6: Match the tenses in bold to their use doing activity of table completion.
(a-e). Find examples in the text.
- T gives the correct poster and
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Number Past simple
Past progressive
Form
Use
Advs
(Handouts: GR4-Module 2- Access Gr9)
check Ss’ ideas
Key:
knowledge.
-
T
explains
the
essential
information if neccessary.
- T asks Ss to copy the essential
1b, 2c, 3a, 4e, 5d
6. Prepositions:
Activity 7: Choose the correct preposition. - T asks Ss to move to part of
Check in the word list. Then complete the preposition.
sentences about the Montgolfier:
- T shows the word list with the
Key:
suitble preposition and explains its
(curious about, happend to, think of, experiment meaning if neccessary.
on, made from, consist of)
(curious about, happend to, think
of, experiment on, made from,
consist of)
-
T asks Ss to read aloud the
preposition phrases several times.
- T asks Ss to copy on their
notebooks.
7. Consolidation and homework:
- T asks Ss to remind the new
* Consolidation:
knowledge that they have just
- Revise the knowledge related to the topic studied.
“animals in the air and inventors-inventions” - T instructs homework for the Ss.
- Revise the skills and strategies of deductive - Ss listen to the T’s instructions
skills and productive ones.
and take notes.
* Homework:
- Learn by heart the new words
- Do the “workbook module” tasks.
- Prepare
the
next
lesson
“Module
2-
Inventions. Lesson 2: 2b: Breakthrough”
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