LESSON PLAN

Teacher: Zidarescu Florin

Class: IX I /Level: Intermediate
No. of hours per week: 2
Unit: Wonders on Earth
Topic: Places
Vocabulary: related to places, landmarks, museums
Structures: Passives
Functions: describing landmarks
Aims:
1. To help students see and understand the difference in meaning and use
between active and passive constructions.
2. To help them use passive constructions appropriately
3. To provide meaningful situations for students to practice the use of passives
through controlled, semi-controlled and free practice
Teaching aids: worksheets, pictures, blackboard
Assumptions and anticipated problems: I assume that students have already been
exposed to passive structures and they are able to recognize and use them.
However I assume that students may have difficulties with turning active sentences
into passive ones.
Procedures:
Stages

Time

Aims

Teachers & students activity

Warmer

5
min.

1. To help
students
remember the
differences in
form and
meaning
between active
and passive
sentences

1. Students are asked to fill in

some sentences with active and
passive forms in order to revise
the various tenses and to
practice the formation of the
passive.

2. To be sure
that students
know the basic
rules of
forming

2. Then they are asked to

remember a few basic rules of
forming the passive voice
(subjects and objects, to be + V
in the 3rd form, agent)

2-3
min.

Interacti
on
T-S
S-T

Teaching
aids
worksheet
blackboard

T-S
S-T

-blackboard

Individually
Skills: Writing, speaking

Ob
s

passive
sentences
Controlle
d and
semicontrolled
practice

10
min

15
min.

Individually
Skills Speaking

3. To help
students
practice the
structure To be
+ verb 3 and
help them
better
understand
how the
passive may
be used in
real-life
contexts

3. Ss are asked to complete a T-S

text with some passive forms S-S
and then match a heading to S-T
each paragraph.

5. To help Ss
practice the
use of passive
in meaningful
context and
check their
understanding
of the
structures

The students are divided into T-S

groups of three. They are going S-S
to edit some short newspaper S-T
stories. Students A and B will
have 3 stories each. The stories
are the same but the language
used in them is different.
Student C is the editor who will
have to decide if the active or
passive (or both) are better for
each fragment. The best part
will be dictated to the editor
and they will also have to find
a suitable title for each
fragment.

In pairs.
Skills Writing, speaking

4. Groups
Skills:Speaking

10
min.

To make
students aware
of the
functions of
the passive in
a real-life
situation.

worksheets

Before/After
Students are given two pictures
of a room, before and after a
burglary has taken places. With
the help of some vocabulary
they are asked to write some
passive sentences to describe
what has taken place.

T-S
S-S
S-T

Workshhets
blackboard

8. In pairs.
Skills: speaking, writing,
speaking
3-4
min.

Teacher comments upon the

lesson, grades the students and
assigns the homework

T-S

textbook