Урок на тему "Технології та винахідники"

Topic: Technology and inventors

Learning outcomes: By the end of the lesson students will be able to:

• use vocabulary on the topic
• transform sentences in the active voice into passive
• speak about different gadgets and inventors

PROCEDURE

Teacher: I am glad to see you at today’s lesson and hope   you are in a good mood. I wish you luck as we are going to speak about your favourite topic “Technology and inventors “.

     You will practice the words, passive voice , improve your speaking and  listening skills. I hope that by the end of the lesson  you will be able to speak about different gadgets and people who have done a lot in this field .

Warm-up

 Teacher: Let’s start our lesson with a vocabulary quiz. Look at the sentences and   try to fill in the missing words.

• ………has changed our lives dramatically.
• It is important to be ………………literate nowadays.
• ……………….. can replace many other products.

• Technology has changed our lives dramatically.
• It is important to be computer literate nowadays.
• Mobile phones can replace many other products.

Do you agree with the sentences ? Why? How?

Vocabulary    Practice 

 Teacher: Our life is full of technology including computers, mobiles and  others items. Look at the picture and say what technological gadget you see  using the scheme:

 It can’t be a …

 It must be a … 

 … is used to / for….

( Key : USB stick, camcorder, ATM, TV, remote control, fax-machine, digital camera, keyboard )

Teacher: Now, 2 students will go to the board and write 5 words on the topic. All the rest, do a crossword in your groups.

Across

2. parts of a computer where the sound comes out

6. parts of a computer including hard disks, monitor ,keyboard...

7. small object which you move to operate a computer

9. a machine that can copy documents to be stored on a computer

10. equipment to send information from one computer to another using a telephone line

Down 

1. a board with buttons to put information into a computer

3. the flat part of a computer on which you see information

4. a group of two or more computer systems linked together

5. a person who seeks weaknesses in a computer system

8. a small computer you can carry with you

(2- speakers, 6-hardware, 7-mouse, 9-scanner, 10-modem, 1-keyboard, 3-screen, 4-network, 5-hacker, 8-laptop )

Teacher: Stand with your back to the board, your group mates will explain the words, try to guess what they are.

Grammar practice 

Teacher: Reading about new inventions we come across a lot of passive

                                 structures. How do we form Passive voice ?

S-S :  be + Past Participle

Teacher: Read a sentence and transform it into the Passive.

 1- They   use   cameras   in   shops   to   help   prevent    crime.

2- NASA will  have  designed  a new  robot  for  space exploration.

3- Manufactures   are  developing  a  new  type  of  phone.

 4- About  2  billion  people  use  the  Internet  every  day.                                                               

           5- They  always  store  important   information  about  the  company on  this computer.

6- A  new  worker  broke this fax-machine yesterday.

Speaking  Teacher:

Nowadays, teenagers can’t imagine their life without computers or  mobiles, while adults use other types of technology like CCTV, ID or TV.

Work in groups . You have 3 technologies, put them in the order where number 1 is the most important  or useful for you. Discuss  it in the groups and present your ideas speaking about advantages of these technologies.

  - computers, GPS , TV

  - mobiles, CCTV, ID

 Teacher: Now, you  have a minute to relax.

No technology has been created without people, they are inventors, scientists and researchers who have made a great contribution to science. Here I have 2 puzzles, 2 pictures of famous people who have done a lot for us to have computers and mobiles as we do today.

Do these puzzles and tell us who they are.

S-S:  Bill Gates, Steve Jobs

Teacher: We learnt about Bill Gates some years ago. Do you remember anything about him? Look at the key words and make sentences.

S-S  tell about Bill Gates.

Listening  Teacher:  Now, you will have a listening activity about Steve Jobs. Do it

                    individually, then you will check with your partners.

 https://www.famouspeoplelessons.com/s/steve_jobs.html

LISTENING GAP FILL:

Steve Jobs was the _________________ of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He was the _______________ shareholder in Walt Disney. Jobs’ name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone, iTunes and iPad. He was a much-respected _______________ whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function _______________ millions of fans.

Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager and _______________ after school at Hewlett Packard. In 1974, Jobs got a job _______________ the video game maker Atari. He _______________ money to _______________ India and then returned to Atari, where he met Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs persuaded Wozniak to make a computer and sell it. Together, they _______________. It was the first small computer with a _______________ to be commercially successful. Jobs also built the computer on which the World Wide Web was created. He _________________ for style and functional perfection, which became _______________.

Jobs guided Apple to be _______________ in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other __________________ made Apple a powerful brand with a _______________. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as ‘Toy Story’ and ‘Finding Nemo’. Jobs’ _________________ is: “You’ve got to find what you love." He died in October 2011, aged 56.

Teacher: Check in your groups , now read one by one.

  What do these people have in common ?

Home task 

Teacher: Your home task is to work out the text about Steve Jobs. Search the Internet and find more information about Steve Jobs. Talk about what you will discover in the next lesson.

Summing up  Teacher: What have you done at the lesson?

   Have you learnt anything new?

Which activity did you like most?

  I would like to finish our lesson with the words of Mark Kennedy , a former London police officer, who said: "All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - say little about his intelligence, but speak volumes about his laziness." Do you agree with them?

I wish you to stay always intelligent, hard working and active and in no way lazy, no matter what kind of technology is to come in the future.