To Become a Personality
Suggested level – A2 –B1
Kate Usatiuk,
A teacher of English,
Kryzhopil district
Aims
1) to develop pupils’ critical thinking and skills in listening, reading, speaking and writing.
2) to promote the cognitive skills of pupils, expand their knowledge of English
3) to cultivate respect to other people’s lifestyle and opinions.
Equipment: pictures on the topic, a set of provebs, a mindmap on the blackboard, presentation , video.
Objectives: At the end of the lesson
I
T. –Nice to meet you again. How are you? (5-8 answers)
\quite\ very fine\ not bad\ OK\ well
And what did you think opening the school door?
E.g. – I felt happy\energetic\ courageous
- I was glad to meet my friends
T. – I hope you will be energetic and creative enough discussing the topic of the lesson “To Become a Personality”.
So what does it mean to become a personality?
Student’ variants:
T. – It’s important to know some words meaning features of character which help people to discover themselves and become a personality. Work in groups, discuss what the most important words are, write them in the stickers and put them on the mind map.
Easy- going
Obstinate
Sociable
Unreliable
Well-wishing
Confident
Selfish
Strong-willed
Punctual
Social
Understanding
Dishonest
Irresponsible
Self-confident
T. Write down the unknown words into your vocabulary. So, let’s practice the new words in exercise 3,2 p.5 workbook (Chernyshova,
“Ranok”)
Activity “Reading” (Tom Sietas)
Before Reading
T. Have you ever heard of Tom Sietas?
Why do you think he is special? (3-5 pupils’ variants)
Video about Tom Sietas.
While-reading: Text Tom Sietas (Reading in groups)
After-Reading:
True or false
Activity - Creating a poster (What teens should do to become a personality, what they must not) in groups.
Activity Speaking:
Group 1: We should…
Group 2: We mustn’t …
Examples for poster:
We should
We mustn’t
Summing up
T. Did you like the lesson? Why?
And what will you do to become a personality? - It’ll be your homework for the next lesson (in written form).
Appendix
Tom Sietas
When people first see Tom Sietas, they do not usually notice anything special. He is not very tall, and he is not particularly well-built. But those factors help Tom to do something incredible. Tom has the world record for static apnea. In other words, Tom can hold his breath underwater, without moving, for just over 22 minutes. He only discovered his ability by accident when he went diving in Jamaica at the age of 18. Because he is not very big, it means that he does not need to get a lot of oxygen to his muscles. And it helps that his lungs are 20 % larger than is usual for his height and build. But it is not only a question of his body. His personality plays a big part in his success, too. Thought processes use a lot of oxygen. So it is important that Tom is calm and patient. Luckily, he rarely gets nervous in the water. In fact, Tom is so calm that he occasionally falls asleep underwater. Obviously, he always trains very carefully to prepare for a new record because what he does is highly dangerous. We are waiting this year to see what he does next. Are we expecting another record attempt? Definitely!
Apendix2
Print the next quotes of famous people on the separate papers.