Aims & Outcomes–These were our aims and intended outcomes–to improve reading, listening and speaking skillsto practise the usage of vocabulary and grammar skillsto increase cultural awareness to incorporate group work and work in pairsto broaden the knowledge about famous peopleto evaluate the credibility of sources and information on the Internetto develop critical thinking and digital literacy‹#›
Flipped Lesson: Famous Entrepreneurs Learners: 9 grade. Topic: Grammar Revision (Past Simple Revision)Time: 45 minutes. Pre-class activities: to revise how we form PS and the situations when we use this Tense. In-class activities: checking the TL, Listening, Speaking, working in pairs‹#›
Different stages of the lesson. Pre-class activities: Revise the rules and use of the Past Simplehttps://test-english.com/grammar-points/a2/past-simple-form-use/ B. Learn Vocabulary connected to setting up a business: To drop out of. To set up. To turn profit * Teacher can use https://chat.openai.com/ to create several vocabulary exercises: Matching the terms and their definitions, sentence completion
Different stages of the lesson2. Introducing the TLA. Reading the story & underlining all the verbs given in PSStory given in Google Docs:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1 Hw. Jro. BQOqo. IE2 Oa. Mbqs. Dda9m1u. ZG2 GQZ_V5p. J7 Wi. XWo/edit. B. Checking the past form of the verbs with Padlet:https://padlet.com/tetianacherezova/past-forms-of-the-verbs-udx8lx5vt726eabu. Teacher gives the infinitives of the verbs and students have to write the past forms of these verbs. Teacher can mix regular & irregular verbs
Different stages of the lesson3. Learning the TL: A. Divide students into 3 groups and let them use revise Past Simple Affirmative sentences, negative sentences and questions using jamboard: https://jamboard.google.com/d/1ek. Rwg8x. NAOn. DVSWYVALg9 Qds3 Ddscc. ZAGc. WE8 Blh. JGY/edit?usp=sharing. B Restricted Practice. Sentence Completion Exercise with the correct form of the verb in PS. For example: How ……………………………… (Oprah Winfrey / become) so popular on TV?Walt Disney ………… (be) a shy introvert who didn’t like spending time with people. Apple …………………… (not be) the first company to bring tablets to the market but the first to succeed.
Different stages of the lesson4. Freer Practice. Brainstorm what students know about Steve Jobs, watch a short video and learn about his early life. Then, they watch the second video, which concerns his early career, and have to mark the given sentences true or false.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h. Tc. QRDac. Ft0 B. Divide students into groups and let them prepare a short presentation about the entrepreneur they are interested in. They have to share some interesting facts about the life and career using PS. Working in Break-Out Rooms
Outcomes. This is what we think our students learned from the lesson.to become more autonomous and study at their own paceto employ the material { grammar and vocabulary ), both in the context of the class and more widelyto demonstrate that challenges have been undertaken, developing new skills in the progressto identify own strength and weakness and develop areas for growth‹#›