VASILE GOLDI NATIONAL COLLEGE, ARAD

TEACHER: PCURAR EMANUELA

LESSON PLAN
Date
Class
Number of
Ss

23rd February 2016

IX E
14 students

Level

Upper-Intermediate

Time of
lesson

50 min

Textbook
Unit
Title/Topic
of the
lesson
Type of
lesson

Upstream intemediate
6
Better Safe than
Sorry/Passive Voice
Grammar

AIMS: 1.1. -to identify the global meaning in authentic oral/written texts with passive voice
1.2. -To anticipate elements of content from a visual/oral stimulus
1.4. -to select various information to do a task (writing sentences in the passive)
4.2. -to translate various texts using the bilingual dictionary.

AIDS/MATERIALS: textbook, handouts for the translation, blackboard

TEACHING TECHNIQUES: matching exercises, writing passive sentences using prompts,
transformation drills, translations
Anticipated problems:
Students may not be familiar with some of the forms of passive voice, i.e. the present
continuous, and they may not be able to think of many reasons why the passive is used. Most
students, however, can draw on the previous knowledge especially when they are offered the
grammar reference ground.

Activity

Time

Skills

Aim

Procedures

InterAction

1.

Reading

1.2

Speakin
g

2.

15

Reading

1.4.

Speakin
g
Writing

Warm-up: T shows students a photo/ a card

with a famous painting by Van Gogh.
Students answer the question Who painted
this picture? and then rephrase it into It was
painted by

Ss-T

Presentation: Read out the Grammar

reference. Draw students attention to the
examples. Ss do the exercise. Check Ss
answers. Answer key:

T-Ss

The sentences above might be seen on signs

or notices and in newspaper articles.

Ss-T

Pair work

They are formal in style.

We form the passive with the verb to be and
the past participle.
The agent is included when it is a specific or
important person or when it is essential to the
meaning of the sentence. The agent is
introduced with by.
We use with to introduce an agent when the
agent uses an instrument, material or
ingredient.
3.

10

Speakin
g

1.1.

1.4.

Controlled practice: Teacher explains the task: T-Ss

Ss are going to use the prompts to make
passive sentences, as in the example. Ss do
the task. Check Ss answers. Answer key:
Were you invited to Bills birthday party?
Your bill is being prepared now.
Has the new CCTV camera been installed
yet?
I visited the website last week, and it has not
been updated for months.

Ss-T

Our identity cards are being checked by the

security guards.
4.

15

Reading
Writing

4.2.

Practice and Production: Teacher puts

students into groups of four. Teacher gives
two persons in each group a sheet of paper
with a short Romanian text from Constantin
Noicas Jurnal de Idei. The students must
write an English translation for that text

Group work

Lesson materials 1

Ex.13. Read the sentences a-h and underline the passive forms, then answer questions 1-6.

a.

Customers are requested to refrain from smoking inside the store.

b.

The motorist was fined $80 for illegal parking.

c.

Breakfast is now being served in the Garden Room.

d.

Guernica was painted by Picasso.

e.

The theft was committed with high-tech equipment.

f.

Rentals should be returned to the main garage.

g.

The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell.

h.

This is clearly a case of arson, because the fire was started with rags soaked in petrol.

1.

Where might you see/read the sentences above? Are they formal or informal in style?

2.

How do we form the passive?

3.

Which sentence(s) contain(s) the agent? Why? How is the agent introduced?

4.

Why is there no agent in the other sentences?

5.

How do we form the passive of modal verbs?

6.

When do we use with to introduce the agent?

Ex.14. Use the prompts to make complete passive sentences, as in the example:

1.

A: my office / break into / last night.

My office was broken into last night.

B: Oh no! Did they take anything?
2.

A: you / invite / to Bills birthday party?

B: No, I wasnt.
3.

A: Can I have my bill, please?

B: Of course, sir. Your bill / prepare / now.

4.

A: the new CCTV camera / install / yet?

B: No, not yet.

5.

A: Is their website information up to date?

B: Maybe but I visited the website last week, and / it / not / update / for months.
6.

A: Why is everyone lined up?

B: Our ID cards / check / the security guards.

Ex.17. Expand the newspaper headlines into full sentences using the passive, as in the
example:

Schools Try out Laptops in the Classroom.

Laptops are being tried out in the classrooms by schools.
Hackers Stole Credit Card Numbers.
Hospitals Test Robot Surgeons.
Police to Install CCTV Cameras in City Parks.

Lesson materials 2

In pairs translate this text into English. Then fold over your paper.
,,Triesc n ceasul cnd se poate pune ntrebarea aceasta att de adnc.
Ce e de fcut cnd nu mai e nimic de fcut?
ntr-o cultur minor, n anii acetia, cu trecutul acesta, cu interdic iile acestea ce e de fcut?
i-mi pun singura problem ce poate fi pus acum, problema ntrebrii. De la ea poate rena te
lumea. Dar i a mea?

Fold here ..

In pairs translate the Romanian text back into English. Are there any differences with the original
version?

Suggested answer key:

I live in this moment when this deep question can be asked.

What is to be done when nothing else is to be done?
In a minor culture, these years, with this past, with these interdictions what is to be done?
And I pose for myself the only problem that can be posed now, the problem of the question. The world
can revive from it. But can mine, too?