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Bollywood
Upper Intermediate level

Description

In this grammar lesson, students learn about the different forms of the Passive Voice through practise in reading, writing and speaking.

Materials

Abc Bollywood Handout
Abc Oscars Quiz

Main Aims

  • To provide students practice in using the Passive Voice

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide students practise in using the Passive Voice through reading, writing and speaking

Procedure

Lead-in Stage (3-4 minutes) • To link this stage to the Practice Stage

* Ask if Ss know any other Film Industries from around the world other than Hollywood. * Once 'Bollywood' is elicited, ask Ss for more information about Bollywood.

Controlled Practice (7-10 minutes) • For the Ss to be able to use the correct form of the Passive Voice through a reading based on Bollywood

* Tell the Ss that they will be doing a reading exercise on Bollywood. * Pre-check the following vocabulary: spectacular / produce / force / big-budget. Drill pronunciation if necessary * Give instructions to Ss: "Read the text, and decide if the verb should be active or the passive voice." Use ICQ to check instructions. * Get Ss in pairs, and check their answers. * Check answers through WCFB

Pre-teaching for Semi-Controlled Practice (5-10 minutes) • For the students to be able to form questions using the Passive Voice

* Tell the Ss that they will be doing a fun-quiz later. * Prepare Ss for the quiz by eliciting the question form of the Passive Voice. * Use modal sentence: -The Altinportakal festival has been held since 1963.(highlight the position of the subject/agent/ verb) Possible answers: Since when has the Altinportakal Film Festival been held? Which Film Festival has been held since 1963? * CCQ: 1) If we want to form the question about when the film festival was held, which question would we use? 2) If we want to form a question on which film festival, which question would we use? * Further check: Turkan Soray was dismissed by many producers in her early career. (Which actress was dismissed by many producers in her early career?)

Writing: Post Stage ( Semi Controlled) (10-15 minutes) • For the Ss to be able to produce Passive Voice based questions through Oscars Quiz

* Change pairs. (If 3 students give them 3 cards to work individually) * Tell the students that they will be playing a game called the Oscars Quiz. * Give Instructions: " You are going to host an Oscars quiz, but there are no questions. You have to write 4 questions for the answers on the cards" Check using ICQ. * Ss to write the questions based on the answers. * Once finished, check their answers for each group.

Speaking: Post Stage 'Oscars Quiz) (8-10 minutes) • For the students to be able practise speaking in fluency

* Ask Ss to come to the board (in teams) * Put group names on the board. * Give instructions: "You will now test your friends. Ask them the full question, and give them the possible 3 answers."

Taboo • Extra activity incase the lesson finishes early

Taboo: Speaking game where Ss will have to describe as many words as they can in relation to the Cinema & Film related words.

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