Class: ACCESS class (7-9 graders)
Level: mixed
Topic: Inventions and inventors
Competences:
Communicative competence:
Sub-competences
Learning objectives:
Board, markers, worksheets, computer, internet access, manual, tape, pictures, CD with audio file
References:
All about the USA.pdf (Unit 2 Inventions and Inventors)
All about the USA audio (file 4)
Online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZf9QPtqtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rIJkg5WCI
Level: mixed
Topic: Inventions and inventors
Competences:
Communicative competence:
- oral message perception
- oral message production
- written message perception
- written message production
Sub-competences
- Participating in simple oral communication on familiar topics
- Deducing the meaning of unfamiliar words from the context
- Selecting from an audio/video message information necessary to solve different tasks
- Argumentative essay writing using the “humburger” essay structure
- Formulating simple questions using patterns
- Defining the main idea of a message
Learning objectives:
- At the end of the lesson students will be able to identify the purpose of different inventions
- At the end of the lesson students will be able to talk about inventions and their role in people’s life
- At the end of the lesson students will be able to elicit the main idea of an oral message
- At the end of the lesson students will be able to use schematically presented info to ask/answer Wh- questions
- At the end of the lesson students will be able to deliver one-minute-long speech about a group of inventions
- At the end of the lesson students will be able to write argumentative essays on the topic “Why is invention important in our life?”
Board, markers, worksheets, computer, internet access, manual, tape, pictures, CD with audio file
References:
All about the USA.pdf (Unit 2 Inventions and Inventors)
All about the USA audio (file 4)
Online:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxZf9QPtqtU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rIJkg5WCI
Lesson stages
1) Introduction/Warm -up
1) Introduction/Warm -up
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2) Discussion points
Tape your ideas to the wall using sticky notes.
Tape your ideas to the wall using sticky notes.
3) Introducing vocabulary
A) Match the words below with the sentences they belong to:
A) Match the words below with the sentences they belong to:
- melted
- noticed
- weighed
- servants
- sausers
- company
- When the chocolate bar was hot, it became a liquid. The chocolate ____________.
- Spencer looked and saw his chocolate was different. He ______________ it.
- The first microwave was very heave. It ________________ 750 pounds.
- Mrs Cockrane had ___________ to do all her housework for her.
- I like to have tea parties. I usually serve tea in beautiful cups and ___________.
- He started his own ____________ in 1981. The people working on him made dishwashers.
4) Listening1
A) Take a look at the questions below and be ready to circle the correct option while listening:
C) Discussion of the main idea
5) Listening 2
A) Listen to the Audio track again and:
A) Take a look at the questions below and be ready to circle the correct option while listening:
- The invention of microwave oven:
- helped the british
- was an accident
- was not an accident
- for meat and Freanch fries
- very big
- for homes
C) Discussion of the main idea
5) Listening 2
A) Listen to the Audio track again and:
- LOW LEVEL: arrange the pictureis in the correct order:
- MEDIUM/HIGH LEVEL: complete the first line of the chart below:
what is it?
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who invented?
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when invented?
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for what?
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why invented?
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Value
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Value
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Value
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Value
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Value
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Value
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Value
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Value
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B) Watch the video and
1)LOW LEVEL: choose the correct option:
Josephine Cockrane invented the dishwasher because:
1)LOW LEVEL: choose the correct option:
Josephine Cockrane invented the dishwasher because:
- she wanted to help her servants by freeing them from washing dishes
- she wanted to become famous and start her own business
- she wanted to save her beautiful dishes from her clumsy servants who would always break them up.
6) Speaking:
A) Open the document posted below, explore the information presented in the chart and fill out the empty columns using the inventions from the word cloud for the first one and your personal knowledge for the last one.
B)
A) Open the document posted below, explore the information presented in the chart and fill out the empty columns using the inventions from the word cloud for the first one and your personal knowledge for the last one.
B)
- LOW LEVEL: Be ready to answer questions based on the chart info
- MEDIUM LEVEL: Make up 4 questions (Who…? What…? Why…? When…?) based on the chart info.
- HIGH LEVEL: Get ready to deliver a one-minute speech about (choose an option):
- inventions that entertain us
- inventions that make life easier
- invention that take us from place to place
- inventions that help our health
- inventions that help us communicate
chart_inventions.docx |
7) Make your own top of five best inventions of the modern world
8) Writing
A) Watch the tutorial about “Hamburger” essays:
8) Writing
A) Watch the tutorial about “Hamburger” essays:
B) Using the “humburger” structure, write an argumentative essay about the importance of number one invention in your top/
9) Homework:
Make a voicethread project presenting your top 5 inventions and giving information similar to the one from the chart you have explored and discussed.
TIPS:
9) Homework:
Make a voicethread project presenting your top 5 inventions and giving information similar to the one from the chart you have explored and discussed.
TIPS:
- use pictures and other visuals to maky it more eye-catchy
- comment your slides using voice comments
- check your grammar accuracy before commenting.