New lesson plan: Passive voice

Parastesh Firouzi

Passive voice - Pre-intermediate level

Passive voice
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, the students are going to learn about passive voice and its difference with active voice in the context of inventions through PPP. After this lesson, the students will be able to use passive voice to talk about objects being in the place of subject while an action is done to them. The lesson will be finished with a speaking task about their opinions on top three most famous inventions.

Materials

Main Aims

To provide clarification of passive voice in the context of invention

Subsidiary Aims

To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of invention

Procedure (41-54 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (2-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

In this stage, I will write down a few inventions with their inventors in both active and passive voice (e.g. Thomas Edison invented light bulb. Light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison.)

Exposure (5-7 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

In this stage, I will ask the students to tell the class about a few inventions that they know of.

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

In this stage, I will write some of the sentences that the students have made in the correct form on the board to draw their attention to the TL.

Clarification (12-15 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

I will clarify the meaning of passive voice by pointing out the part of speech of the words in the active sentences and asking some CCQs (What did Thomas Edison make? Light bulb. Do we know who invented light bulb? Yes. What do we focus on? Thomas Edison.) I will also clarify the meaning of passive by asking CCQs (Do we know who made light bulb? No. What do we focus on? Light bulb (object which is the subject of the passive sentence). What do we have after the object at the beginning of the sentence? To be verb. What's the format of the verb in passive voice? Past participle. How can we talk about the subject of a passive sentence? By adding "by + the subject".)

Controlled Practice (10-12 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

The students are going to do exercise A and B on page 145 in grammar bank for 5 minutes. They will have two minutes to check their answers in pairs and then the answers will be checked with the whole class.

Free Practice (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

The students will talk about top three most famous inventions in groups and then tell the class which one they think is the best invention in the world.