Lesson Plan
Topic: Coca Cola (grammar lesson)
Level: Pre Intermediate
Grammar point: Passive Voice
I Warming up:
1. You are going to watch a video about the history of Coca-Cola. Before you watch, check the meaning of the following words or phrases.
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2. Before you watch the video, try to complete the sentences with the active or passive form of the verb in brackets.
3. Now watch the video and check your answers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdrr3ZxZUOc
II Presentation of the material stage
Read the story about coca cola and underline verbs in Passive Voice.
Coca Cola is enjoyed all over the world, in fact 1.6 billion gallons are sold every year, in over one hundred and sixty countries. The drink was invented by Dr John Pemberton in Atlanta as a health drink on 8 May 1886, but it was given the name Coca-Cola by his partner, Frank Robinson, because it was originally made from the coca plant. In the first year, only nine drinks a day were sold.
The business was bought by a man called Asa Candler in 1888, and the first factory was opened in Dallas, Texas, in 1895. Billions of bottles and cans have been produced since 1895, but recipe is still kept secret. It is certain that Coca-Cola will be drunk far into the twenty-first century.
III Guided practice:
1 Put words into the correct order to make sentences.
https://wordwall.net/uk/resource/7803957
2. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct tense, Active or Passive Voice.
The hamburger is the most eaten food of the world. The first hamburger (1) ______ (make) and sold in Connecticut in 1895 by an American chef called Louis Lassen. Louis (2) ______ (call) them hamburgers because he (3) ______ (give) the recipe by sailors from Hamburg in Germany.
Hamburgers (4) ______ (become) a favourite in America in the early part of the 20th century. Their popularity (5) _____ (grow) even more after the Second World War, when they (6) _____ (buy) in large quantities by teenagers who (7) _____ (prefer) fast food to family meals.
In 1948 two brothers, Dick and Mac McDonald (8) _____ (open) a drive-in hamburger restaurant in San Bernardino, California. Since then over 25,000 McDonald’s restaurants (9) _____ (open) worldwide and now 35 million McDonald’s hamburgers (10) _____(eat) every day in 115 countries from India to the Arctic Circle.
IV Production
Prepare a short presentation (2-3 minutes long) about the history of Coca Cola. You can search the Internet for more information.
In your presentation you should include:
References:
Soars, L., Soars, J. New Headway. Intermediate Student’s Book. [Text]/ Soars, L., Soars, J.: Oxford University Press, 2009.