Тема уроку: The World of Books

Lesson topic: The World of Books

Aim: - to revise vocabulary and master the usage of Passive Voice.

Instructional: to generalize vocabulary on the topic "The World of Books", to improve communicative and socio-cultural competence of  pupils, to form  Passive Voice skills, to teach pupils how to express their thoughts and work with interactive whiteboard, tests.  

Developing: to develop cognitive activity, to learn to analyze and summarize material.

Educational: to expand children`s horizons, to develop skills of cooperation.

Equipment: the textbook Solutions Pre-Intermediate, Unit 10, р. 94, a CD player, interactive whiteboard, cards, students` presentations, teacher`s presentation.

Type of the lesson: generalized lesson.

PROCEDURE

I. ORGANIZATION MOMENT

Greeting and introduction

T: Good morning, girls and boys! Glad to meet you here. I hope you are all ready for our lesson. Please, complete the following sentences with one word, and you will guess the topic of our lesson.

Slide 1

♦ Complete the sentences with one word and guess the theme of our lesson:

1.  When your brain wants something to work at you take...

2.  When you want to learn some facts from the history of different times and countries you read...

3.  When you do your lessons, you always consult some...

4.  When you have much free time, you like to read...        -

(Students complete the sentences with  the word "Books")

Т: Are you fond of reading books? So, the theme of our lesson is "Books In My Life" (see slide 2).

Warming-up

Proverbs demonstration.

·        The more you read the more you know.

·        A good book is a source of wisdom.

Т: Now, read these proverbs and say how you un­derstand them. Do you agree with them?

Slide 2

EXPECTED RESULTS

This lesson will help you to:

·        learn about people`s reading tastes;

·        improve your skills in listening, speaking, do­ing tests, using different sources of  informa­tion;

·        know more about the world's famous writers  and works written by them;

·        improve pupils` knowledge of Passive Voice.

At the end of the lesson you will fill in these forms in order to see how active you've been at the lesson.

II. The main part of the lesson.

Vocabulary

T: To be successful in your work, let's review the material you we've already learnt. So, look at the board and match these word-combinations with their translations.

Slide 3

♦ Choose the correct translation for each word  and word- combination.
1) adventure stories	а) психологічна драма
2) love stories	b) книги про мандрівки
3) historical novels	с) детективні оповідання
4) travel books	d) наукова фантастика
5) detective stories	е) історичні романи
6) science fiction	f) романи про повсякденне життя
7) novels of everyday life	g) пригодницькі оповідання
8) psychological drama	i) любовні історії
9) guidebook	k) п`єса
10) textbook	l) словник
11) dictionary	m) путівник
12) play	n) посібник

Slide 4

Speaking on the subject, using the active vocabulary of the lesson

T:  Well done! And what kinds of books do you prefer to read? So let's work in chain. Try to use the following patterns, answering the question "What books are you fond of? Why?" Remember the following words and speech patterns and speak about your reading tastes.

1.     As for me, I am fond of …….  . I think they are…. .

2.     I like reading ….  . To my mind they are…..  .

3.     As I am keen on … , I always read… . These books are really …  .

4.     I am fond of … because I find them …. .

Exercise 1 page 94                              Can you match the titles of the books 1-8 with the writers in the box?

Jane Austen,  Agatha Christie,  Joseph Conrad , Charles Dickens,  Stephen King,       J. K. Rowling,  J. R. R. Tolkien, William Shakespeare.

1.     Hamlet

2.     Murder on the Orient Express

3.       The Lord of the Rings         

4.       Oliver Twist

5.     Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

6.       The Shining

7.     Pride and Prejudice

8.       Lord Jim

Exercise 2 page 94        Work as a class. You may wish to ask more questions, for example: Which of the books have been made into films? Have you seen any of the films? What characters do you remember? What other famous characters did the authors create? etc.

Exercise 3 page 94        Listen and repeat the list of publications in the box. Underline the stress in each word.

Publications: atlas, autobiography, biography, comic, cookbook, dictionary, encyclopaedia, guidebook, magazine, manual, newspaper, novel, play, textbook.

Exercise 4 page 94

Which publication from exercise 3 would you read if you wanted to:

1.     find out which country Timbuktu was in?

2.     look up a word you didn't understand?

3.     learn about spiders?

4.     learn how your new DVD recorder works?

5.     read the latest gossip about Hollywood stars?

6.     read stories with lots of pictures and not many words?

7.     prepare for a maths exam?

8.     find out what to do and see when you're on holiday?

9.     find out how to cook a nice meal?

10.                       read about what is happening in the world?

11.                       read about the life of a famous person, written by that person?

12.                       read about the life of a famous person, written by another person?

13.                       read a long story?

14.                       read something written for the theatre?

Exercise 5 page 94

Listen to two teenagers, Josh and India, doing a questionnaire. Complete the questions.

KEY:   Who are your………..?

……………………do you read?

…………………..do you read?

……………..would you write?

Exercise 6 page 94

Teacher allows a minute for students to read the instructions and the task.

The teacher plays the recording once. Students listen and mark their answers.

Exercise 7 page 94         Work in pairs. Do the questionnaire answering questions from exercise 5. Tell the class about your partner.

Group work

T:  And now let's divide into 4 groups. Your task is to use some facts given on the cards in making short stories about books and authors. Share this information with your friends.

(Students work  in  groups with  the given card where they have key-information  about books and their authors. Reporter of each group presents the report in the form of Power Point presentation.)

Grammar

Demonstration of the presentation. Revision of Passive Voice.

We use passive forms when:

n  a) we don`t know WHO did it;

The window was broken an hour ago.

n  b) we are interested in WHAT happens, not WHO it is done by;

His watch was stolen in the street.

n  с) the situation is rather formal.

Smoking is not allowed.

Passive Voice      be+V3

Somebody cleans      the room             every day. (active)

 subject

The room   is cleaned every day. (passive)

Object

Rewrite these sentences using Passive voice:

1.     People don`t use this road very often.

2.     They built a new hospital near the airport last week.

3.     They cancelled all flights because of fog.

4.     Somebody cleans the room when I arrived.

5.     Translators translate this article every day.

Remember

If we want to say who does the action,

we use by :

This house was built by my grandfather.

Two hundred people are employed by the company.

If somebody does the action with the help of instruments, we use with  :

Meat should be cut with  a knife.

Food in Japan is eaten with chopsticks.

Choose the right preposition:

1. Fish is cut … a special knife.

2. These novels are written … A. J. Cronin.

3. The big tree was cut down … Jim.

4. The bridge was built … five workers.

5. Who is the portrait painted …?

T:  And can you tell me where you can get books according to your tastes? So fill in this diagram. Insert the necessary word from the given below:

Where can you get books for reading?
... as a present		... from friends		through the Inter­net		... from the lib­rary		... in a book­shop

Keys: 1. receive, 2. borrow, 3. download, 4. get, 5. Buy

III. Lesson outcome

T:  Well, our lesson is coming to the end. You've done a great job. So, can you tell me what you have learnt today?

Let's sum up the results of our work:

I know...

I can...

I've improved...

T:  And now we are going to see who has been more or less active at our today's lesson.

Home task:

Write a letter to your fa­vourite writer or poet. Tell him why you like his (her) writings. The lesson is over. Good-bye!