Конспект урока на тему: "Plants which changed the world"

Theme: Plants which changed the world

Teacher’s notes

Level: Pre-intermediate

Objectives: to students’ vocabulary skills

                     to raise motivation to the lesson

Time: 45 min

Materials: board, chalk, handout

PRE-VOCABULARY

Warm up activity (3 min)

Material: board, chalk

Procedure: Divide students into 3 groups, write down 3 words on the board and ask students to find different words from those ones.

Answer keys:

Commercially	thousands	Europeans
Come, mercy, call, ill, silly, coal etc.	Sand, thus, and, hand, nod etc.	Euro, pen, pan, sure, pear, peas etc.

Activity 1

Objective: to improve learners’ thinking and speaking skills              

Time:  7 min.

Material: handout 1

v       Procedure: Give handouts to the students and ask them to tell what these pictures are associated with.

1.                  2.  3.

Possible answer: the answers may vary

WHILE VOCABULARY

Activity 1.

Objective: to improve learners reading, speaking skills

Time: 15 min.

Material: handout 2

v    Procedure: Work in groups. Give for each group text in different themes. They should read and then retell their text for other groups and the others should find what the text is about and give their own title.  

Activity 2

Objective: to enrich the students’ vocabulary skills

Time: 10 min

 Material: handout 3

v    Procedure: It’s a pair work. Distribute the students with handout 3, in this task all words below appear in the article about the plant, ask the learners to write words which go with plants given below. Some go with more than one.

Nouns	Addict, soil, fabric, silk, plantation, slaves, lung, cancer, luxury
Verbs	Chain, smoke, inhale, ban, sweeten, refine, chew, harvest
Cotton Silk, fabric, plantations, slaves, harvest		Tobacco Chain, smoke, cancer, lung, plantation, ban, inhale, chew	Sugar Luxury, sweeten, chew, harvest

POST-VOCABULARY

Activity 1

Objective: to improve speaking skills

Time: 8 min

Material: none

v    Procedure: ask the question about what the students think which other plants changed the world.

Home task (time 2 min): make crossword using the words from the text below

Reference: John and Liz Soars New Headway “Pre-intermediate Students’ Book”

                   Oxford: Oxford University Press

ENTRY – I (VOCABULARY TASK)

Students’ worksheet

Handout 1, Activity 1

v What are these pictures associated with?

2.                  2.  3.

Handout 2, Activity 2

v    Work in groups. Read and retell your text for other groups and ask the others find what the text is about and give your own title.  

Handout 3, Activity 3

 All words below appear in the article about the plant which words go with which plants. Some go with more than one. Write down under

Nouns	Addict, soil, fabric, silk, plantation, slaves, lung, cancer, luxury
Verbs	Chain, smoke, inhale, ban, sweeten, refine, chew, harvest