TP 8, Grammar, Rausmith Farak
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of present simple passive.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist reading practice using a text about The world's most popular brands.
Procedure (37-49 minutes)
Show Ss a video related with the lesson, in this case a video about KFC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xj9OvEmk1c then, ask some quick question to engage students: "Do you know who Colonel Harland Sanders is, and what is he famous for?" Encourage students to share their knowledge or any stories related to KFC or Coca-Cola.
Introduce Reading 1 and Reading 2 as texts about famous brands and their founders. Ask students to read both texts silently and prepare to discuss what they learned. Reading 1. The famous face which is seen at more than 9,000 KFC restaurants worldwide actually belonged to a real person: Colonel Harland Sanders. At different times he was a soldier, an insurance agent, a tyre salesman and worked in his parents' petrol station. When he saw that people were more interested in his home-made food than the petrol he was selling, he decided to open his first restaurant in Utah, USA, in the early 1950s. Colonel Sanders is also remembered for organizing the biggest party In KFC history - about 35,000 people attended his seventy-ninth birthday in 1970. Reading 2. It is the world's number one brand, and it is recognized by 94% of the world's population! For many years now, Coca-Cola has been a symbol of American culture. It is also the best-selling soft drink in the world. More than 60,000 products from the Coca-Cola company are drunk around the world every minute.
Show students the two highlighted sentences and try to elicit meaning and ask them some CCQs also. Sentence 1: "Colonel Sanders is also remembered for organizing the biggest party in KFC history." Questions to Elicit Meaning: Q: "Who is remembered in this sentence?" A: Colonel Sanders is remembered. Q: "Who organized the biggest party?" A: Colonel Sanders organized the biggest party. CCQs for Sentence 1: CCQ: "Is Colonel Sanders the one doing the remembering?" A: No, he is the one being remembered, not the one doing the remembering. CCQ: "Who is the focus of the sentence, Colonel Sanders or the biggest party?" A: The biggest party is the focus of the sentence, and Colonel Sanders is the one associated with it. Sentence 2: "It is recognized by 94% of the world's population!" Questions to Elicit Meaning: Q: "What is recognized by 94% of the world's population?" A: "It" is recognized. Q: "Who is doing the recognizing?" A: The sentence doesn't specify who is doing the recognizing. CCQs for Sentence 2: CCQ: "In this sentence, is 'it' doing the recognizing?" A: No, "it" is not doing the recognizing; it is the one being recognized. CCQ: "Is the focus of the sentence on the one recognizing or the one being recognized?" These questions and CCQs will help students understand that the present simple passive is used when the subject (Colonel Sanders and "it" in these sentences) receives the action or is the focus of the statement, rather than the doer of the action, which might be unspecified or less important.
During this stage, ask Ss some CCQs to help them understand the present simple passive and let them to construct the structure by themselves. Structure of Present Simple Passive Voice: The present simple passive voice consists of a subject (the receiver of the action), an auxiliary verb ('am,' 'is,' or 'are'), and the past participle form of the main verb. CCQs for Structure: What are the three main components of a sentence in the present simple passive voice? Answer: The three components are the subject, an auxiliary verb ('am,' 'is,' or 'are'), and the past participle of the main verb. How do we form the negative in the present simple passive voice? Answer: To form the negative, you add 'not' after the auxiliary verb. For example, "is not" or "are not." What is the structure of an interrogative sentence in the present simple passive voice? Answer: In an interrogative sentence, you start with the auxiliary verb ('am,' 'is,' or 'are') followed by the subject. Example Sentences: Affirmative: "The book is read by many students." Negative: "The book is not read by many students." Interrogative: "Is the book read by many students?" More Structure Details: Subject: The subject of the sentence can be a noun or a pronoun, and it receives the action. It can be singular or plural. Auxiliary Verb: The choice of 'am,' 'is,' or 'are' depends on the subject. 'Am' is used with 'I,' 'is' with 'he,' 'she,' and 'it,' and 'are' with 'you,' 'we,' 'they,' and plural nouns. Past Participle: The main verb is used in its past participle form. For regular verbs, this typically involves adding '-ed' to the base form (e.g., 'read' becomes 'read,' 'open' becomes 'opened'). Irregular verbs have unique past participle forms.
For controlled practice show students images on page 145 and ask them the next questions: 1 Look the objects on page 145. Which object do the following sentences refer to? a. It's mainly used by women. It's usually sold in chemist's shops. It's usually kept in a handbag or purse. b. They're usually made out of plastic. They're sometimes kept in people's bathrooms. They are used more by men than by women. c. They're accepted all over the world nowadays. They're always made out of plastic. They're used by millions of people every day to buy things.
Tell students to write some more sentences about three of the other objects on page 145 using the Present simple passive. Give sentences to another student. Can he/she guess which object they refer to? Summarize the key points of the lesson. Encourage students to reflect on what they've learned and set goals for the next lesson.