Topic aims: Students speak on famous inventions and discoveries.
Skill aims: Students listen, speak, read and write.
Grammar aims: Students review Passive structures.
Communication aims: Students answer the Teacher’s questions, express their opinion and suggest ideas.
Reviewing aims: Students revise the materials on the topic Inventions.
Cultural aims: Students learn new facts about discoveries and inventions.
Materials required: computer etc.
Lead-in |
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| I. Duty report Information about the aim of the lesson |
– Is anybody absent? Why is he (she) absent? Today we are going to speak about inventions. Famous and not so famous, well-known and not. |
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| II. Warm-up 1. Brainstorming around the quotations. |
“The science of today is the technology of
tomorrow.” (Teller) Anticipated answer: I personally think, that at first smth is a theory, an idea and coming into practice it becomes technology |
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| III. Warm-up 2. | “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” (Ch.
H. Duell, Head of US Patents Office, 1899) (slides
2-4) Phonetic and speech drilling
Students name the inventions and say what they are used for. (Activating Passive constructions and cliches). (slides 5-18) |
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Main activity |
Procedure |
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| IV. Feedback 1 Long turn |
“Heavier-than-air machines are impossible.” (Lord Kelvin of the Royal Society) “Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value.” (M.F.Foch, Professor of Strategy) (slides 19-20) You should listen to the presentations your classmates have prepared. While listening answer the questions. S1. I’d like to speak about an
aeroplane. I suppose, it is one of the most important inventions of the Mankind. For
centuries people had been dreaming about wings and at last their dream became a reality.
The first aeroplane in the world was built in Russia in 1881 by Alexander Mozhaisky, a
very good engineer in the Russian army. The aeroplane was not very large. It was only
fifteen metres long and had two wings. It was made of metal, wood and canvas and had a
motor which was also constructed by Mozhaisky. |
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| V. Brainstorming | Now you are to split into groups. Discuss your answers and give us the result of your discussions | ||
| VI. Feedback 2 Long turn |
One more presentation. Listen to it attentively and answer the
questions. S2. I’d like to speak about cloning. Scientists all over the world have been studying the problem for a long time. The first successful experiments had been fulfilled by John Gordon, an English scientist, by 1980. A great tribute to the solution of the problem was made by a group of Scottish scientists, headed by Ian Wilmut. In 1997 the first cloned animal, the sheep Dolly was born. As a matter of fact, in 1998-1999 Dolly gave birth to 4 lambs, all of them were safe and sound. But Dolly herself began very quickly getting on and died. The world’s first cloned pet, Copy Cat, has turned out to be very different from her mother, Rainbow. Their DNA is exactly the same and everybody expected Copy Cat to be the exact copy of her mum. But she isn’t. Rainbow (left) has got brown, white and gold fur. Copy Cat (right) has a striped grey coat. And their personalities are different too: Rainbow is quiet but Copy Cat is playful and curious. Scientists prove that clones don’t always turn out to be exact copies. The works like those are being carried out in Russia as well, but not so successfully. On the whole the technology of cloning is just being developed. But one thing is known for sure – human intellect can’t be cloned. The problem of man cloning has both technological and ethics problems. On the one hand it would give the Mankind the possibility of getting new lungs, hearts, livers, kidneys and so on due to cloning and not due to donors, on the other hand… Officially, man cloning is persecuted by the law in the USA, France, Germany and Japan. |
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| VII. Brainstorming | Now you are to split into groups. Discuss your answers and give us
the result of your discussions. Some inventions do not shake the world, but they make our life more comfortable. Imagine, that a ballpoint pen had not been invented, what are we to write with? |
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| VIII. Feedback 3 Long turn |
One more presentation. Listen to it attentively and answer the
questions. S3. We’d like to speak about some inventions, connected with clothes. They do not shake the world but they make our life more comfortable, more interesting and funnier. A shoe that changes from stilettos into flats at the push of a button has been created for women drivers. This cool Airplane dress was created by Hussein Chalayan. The famous designer was obviously inspired by flight technology. The dress is made from the same material used in aircraft. Believe it or not, but it changes shape by remote control! This suit shows a ‘journey’ through physical and computer environments. Artist Jen Southern loves computer games and picked his favourite scene from one. The tiny tubes in this dress can carry smells. You can choose any smell you like and change it to suit your mood. This is the warmest and lightest jacket you’ve ever seen! To create it, the designers sewed bags of powdered Aerogel – one of the lightest substances on earth – between two layers of fabric. This is a raincoat that glows in the rain. The circles are sensors. When droplets fall on a sensor, the lamp lights up. The harder the rain, the faster the lamps light up. This jacket will help you survive in conditions of extreme heat. It has 50 metres of plastic tubing sewn into it! The first shoes were made by the Ancient Egyptians but there was no difference between the left and the right foot. In the 18th century, the streets of Europe were so filthy and full of rubbish that people started wearing platform shoes to avoid stepping into the dirt! The word umbrella is Italian and it means ‘a little shade’. However, the Italians didn’t invent the umbrella. It was used many centuries ago in the East as a protection against the sun. In Britain, it appeared in 18th century and it was used more as a protection against the rain. Jonas Hanaway is thought to be the first man to appear in the streets of London with an umbrella. The Londoners were so grateful to Jonas Hanaway that when he died they erected a monument to him in Westminster Abbey. A Japanese professor has invented an invisibility cloak – just like Harry Potter’s. A camera on the back of the person’s head films the scene behind them and project it onto the coat. The technology has practical applications: in the future, doctors could see ‘through’ their hands or other obstacles when they are doing surgery. Daniel Radcliffe, who plays Harry Potter in the films, would love to try it. ‘I could sneak into top-secret meeting,’ he says. |
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| IX. Brainstorming | Now you are to split into groups again. Discuss your answers and give us the result of your discussions. | ||
Follow-up |
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| X. Brainstorm | Two more quotations. They are predictions that people wish they
hadn’t made. (slides 21-22) “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” (K.Olson,President of DEC) “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” (Th. Watson, Chairman of IBM) By the way, there is a new word in the English language, created in analogy with “a couch potato”. It’s “a mouse potato”.(slide 23) “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” (Ch. H. Duell, Head of US Patents Office, 1899)((slide 24) |
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| XI. Reading | We have spoken about some inventions. Now, read the texts (page 240-241) and say what things the authors can’t do without. (3 texts – 3 groups) The texts are sure to help you with your homework. | ||
| XII. Summing-up Home Task |
Summing up, Putting marks. Open the copy-books. Write down the date. Composition. You will get the cards with topics. (slide 25) |
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Список литературы
- «Английский язык». Учебник для 10-11 классов общеобразовательных учреждений (В.П. Кузовлев, Н.М.Лапа, Э.Ш.Перегудова и др.) – М. «Просвещение», 2012.
- Подборка журналов “Speak Out” за 2003-2012 гг.