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LESSON PLAN

Teacher:Alina Simu

School:Onisifor Ghibu High School, OradeaDate: June 1st, 2012Class: XI A (5 classes per week)Time: 50 minutesLevel: Advanced L1Lesson:Our Changing World

Textbook: Upstream AdvancedExpress Publishing

Aims:to expand students vocabulary and awareness of technological advances

to encourage students to express their outlook on various technological

inventions, their advantages and disadvantages

Objectives:

By the end of the lesson the students:

will have identified technological advances and discussed their influences onour lives

will have learnt about technological discoveries already in use will have listened for specific information will have speculated upon the future of technology

Skills: listening, speaking, reading

Methods: conversation, question-answer, group work

Previous knowledge:

Students have a wide range of vocabulary and are able to express theiropinions clearly.

Anticipated problems:

Students may find it difficult to speculate upon the technological future ofhumanity.

Teaching materials: textbook, blackboard, CD player, video

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Lesson Stages:

Activity 1: Warm Up

Aims: to set the students in the right mood for starting the lessonSkill focus: speakingTiming: 5 min.

Procedure:

T greets the Ss and marks the absents.

T asks the Ss to read their homework. They had to write a paragraph about the twomost important technological advances in their lives.

Activity 2: Lead-in

Aims: to encourage communicationSkill focus: speakingTiming: 10 min.Procedure: T asks Ss to look at the pictures on page 99 in their books. Ss have toidentify the technological changes illustrated by the pictures: traffic congestion,

reliance on the car, technology, computers, the Internet, climate changes, flooding,

drought, architecture, inner cities, and environment.

Then, T asks Ss questions like:

How will these changes affect our lives in the future?Which will have the greatest impact on our lives?Which are changes for the better and which for the worse?

T announces the title of the new lesson and writes it on the blackboard: Our

Changing World.

Activity 3: Listening ActivityAims: to provide Ss with a broader range of opinions on changes in lifestyleSkill focus: listeningTiming: 10 min.

Procedure:

T tells Ss they are going to be listening to people talking about changes in lifestyle.

T elicits what changes Ss think might arise in the discussion. Ss listen once to seeif they predicted correctly. Ss listen again to do the task, identifying the speaker to

the changes presented.

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A: travel, means of transport

- people travelled less and shorter distances in the past- long haul travel is popular and easy today- in the future people will travel into spaceB: banking- the service was more personal in the past- nowadays the service is impersonal- in the future people wont need cash because of the Internet

C: health, eating habits

- in the past, people ate what they wanted or could afford- nowadays people are more health conscious- in the future food will be replaced by vitamin supplements

Activity 4: Group work

Aims: to encourage students to be aware of the future of technology and speculate

upon the advantages and disadvantages of the technological development in ourlives

Skill focus: speakingTiming: 10 minutes

Procedure: T asks Ss to watch a video presenting ten of the future technological

inventions that are already used in real life, in various domains. Then, T asks Ss to

look at exercise 3, p. 99 and to decide which of the technological advances listedthere will occur in the next 50 years. Ss work in groups, discussing and giving

reasons for their opinions.As an extra activity, Ss fill in a questionnaire with their beliefs about the

future (worksheetUpstream Advanced Workbook).

Activity 5: Homework (5 min.)

T assigns the homework: Ss have to paraphrase one of the quotations in ex. 4/ p.

99.