Date: 1. 10. 2012
Level: 11th grade
Theme: Step 4. Young inventors
The aims: 1) to develop speaking skills and teach the
students to express opinions in group discussion;
2) widen students
knowledge about high-technological things and their origin.
The equipment of the lesson: interactive board, cards
The outline of the lesson
I. Preliminaries
1. Greeting
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Hello, boys and girls. I’m very glad to see you
There are many good and happy moments in our life and today
we have one of them. We are going to have an unusual lesson we’ll continue to
talk about the inventions and inventors.
II.
Warm up
But first of all I want to know
how are you?
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Fine, thank you
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How are you?
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I’m all right
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I’m good. Not bad.
I see you are in a good mood today but you can evaluate your
mood yourself.
Draw a face according to your mood:
They are OK, good, so-so, bad.
At our previous lesson we talked about a computer, now
answer for my questions, please.
1) What
can you say about the value of computer in our life.
P1 : As for me. I can’t imagine my life without a personal
computer/ It is so fast, convenient and reliable to work on a PC. It helps me
in solving many routine problems.
T: You’re right. Thank you.
2) What
about the internet?
P2: It is an instant access to information banks world –wide
and of course e-mail is popular way we correspond with each other.
T: Right you are.
III Main part. Reading. Speaking (2 min)
1. The aim of our lesson: Inventors who produced
inventions.
T: You know about computer,
mobile phone, internet , but what do you know about the inventors? Can you
name anybody?
S1:
Yes, we do. Alexander Bell.
T: What is his inventions?
S2:
Telephone
T: Right you are. Are there any
other examples?
S3:
Ball point pen was invented by Biro.
T: Great you are brilliant
2 Pre-reading task
(5 min)
I see you know much about
inventions and some inventors and today I want to introduce you with one of the
famous inventors of the past – Louis Braille
Before reading the text pay attention to some unknown
words.
Let’s do such activity as: I give you the lists with
the words which can be unknown for you. Your task is if you know the word put a
tick in column “know” if you don’t know put a tick in column “don’t know” I
give you 3-4 min.
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Words
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know
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Don’t know
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invent
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Inventor
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Blind
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Awl
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Sharp
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Leather
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Bend
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complicate
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slip
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Fingertips
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Link
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Infected
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Rope
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Eyesight
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Intend
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weave
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care
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dot
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slipper
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T: First group know 6 words, second group know 8 words
There are seventeen words. I write them on the board, then we
pronounce and read them together.
It’s time to read the text about Louse Braille inventor of
Braille.
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Who was he? What did he invented?
You’ll know it after reading the
text.
3. Reading the text (5 – 7 min)
a) answer
the questions:
b) When was Louis Braille born?
c) How did he injured?
d) Which school did he attend?
e) What did the pupils do at
school?
f) How did Louis Braille invent
his Braille system for blind people?
g) When was Louis Braille
officially recognized in France?
4.Listening
a) In
1876 Alexander Graham Bell, an American engineer invented telephone
b) Karl
Benz produced the world’s first-petrol driven car in Germany in 1878.
c) In
1895 the Lumiere brothers patented the world’s first cinema in Paris.
d) Wilber and Orville Wright built the first airplane
in 1903.
e) Sergey Korolev designed the first satellite in
1957.
f) In 1981 Bill Gates created Microsoft-Dos (Disk Operating
System)
T: We’ve known much about Braille about the other inventors
and their inventions that shook the world.
5 Doing exercises. Let’s do some exercises :
a) Look
at the board and match the words and definitions.
TV set – to take photographs
A car – to receive or make calls around
A computer – to perform every day cleaning tasks
A camera – to watch pre-recorded videos
A vacuum cleaner – to keep food fresh for a long time
A mobile phone – a system for sending or receiving speech
b) Which things are the most or least useful in the
house from your point of view.
- I think that … the most important thing.
- We can ….
- Some of the inventions, for example … is less important.
- We do not often….
- And I am sure we can do without…..
III.
Evaluation
Dear friends, I’d like to thank you for your work.
You were really great!
I hope you’ve learned much and perhaps will use your
knowledge of English in the future.
Your marks are: 5 and 4
VI. Home work: Ex. 7 p. 34
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