Lesson plan - Unit 4: Conservation - Language focus: Passive voice

LESSON PLAN
Unit 4: Conservation
Language focus: Passive voice
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Class description
22 tenth-grade students ( one boy and 21 girls) at high school. 
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Time 
35m
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Objectives 
After the lesson, students will be able to:
+ understand the usage of the passive voice
+ have general understanding the form of passive voice
+ know how to transfer from active voice to passive one.
+ do well on passive voice exercises. 
+ apply fluently passive voice in writing and speaking.
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Assumed knowledge
Students have already known the active voice of some particular tenses. 
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Anticipated problem(s)
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Teaching aids 
Textbook, handouts of exercises, visual aids (pictures and A0 paper).
Procedure: 
Teacher 
Students 
7.1 Lead-in (2m)
7.2 Present (11m)
- Writes on the board the general structure of passive voice: To be + P.P
- Asks Ss to write down in their notebook.
- Presents the specific form of three tenses: present, past and future.
+ Calls a student to take some examples on simple present. 
+ Gives feedback: says "Good!" if it is true or corrects if it is false. Then thanks him/ her. 
+ Transfers the sentence into passive voice.
+ Adds some more examples.
+ Asks students to write those sentence in their notebook. 
+ Present the form of the past and the future that were prepared on an A0 paper.
+ Asks students to write the structures.
+ Calls four students to give examples. 
+ Corrects, gives feedback by asking the others "Is it right?", "Good! Thank you, sit down."
- Write the structure To be + P.P in their notebook.
- Stand up and speak out his/ her sentence. The other students listen to their friend and teacher. 
- Write down in the notebook. 
+ Write down the structure.
+ Stand up and give examples. 
7.3 Practice (11m)
Activity 1: Gives each student a piece of paper which has three sentences in active voice (can be extracted from the textbook). 
- Asks Ss to work individually in 3m to transfer those sentences into passive voice.
- Stops Ss after 3m. 
- Calls Ss to read aloud their sentences. 
- Corrects the answers.
Activity 2: Divides the class into 11 pairs. 
- Gives each pair a pair of incomplete sentences. 
- Asks Ss to use the given words to write the full sentences using passive voice.
- Calls Ss to read their sentences.
- Corrects the answer of Ss
- Receive a piece of paper.
- Work individually to finish the exercise.
- Stop writing.
- Stand up and read aloud their sentences.
- Sit in pairs
- Receive the incomplete sentences.
- Write the full sentences with passive voice using the words given.
- Stand up and read their complete sentences.
7.4 Production (11m)
- Divides the class into 4 groups ( 2 groups of 5 and 2 groups of 6 Ss).
- Gives Ss situation: 
"Imagine that you are working in a recycling paper factory. There are groups of students visit your factory and want to know about the process of recycling paper. You tell them about how paper is recycled". 
- Asks Ss to discuss the process of recycling paper, then use passive voice to describe to the others. 
- Gives each group 1 minute to present their description.
- Asks the other group to listen. 
- Corrects and gives comments.
- Sit in groups of 5 or 6.
- Listen to the situation and teacher's instruction (3m).
- Discuss in group (4m)
- Present in 1 minute
- Listen to the presenter(s)
- Listen to teacher's comments
8. Summary and Homework: remind students what they have learnt and asks them to finish 3 exercise in the textbook.