Students must learn how to construct passive statements.
The goal of the lesson is for the students to be able to describe the differences between active and passive voice.
Students should be aware of how passive voice is constructed.
Additionally, the pupils should be taught how to switch between active and passive voice in sentences.
The lesson's second goal is to assist students in incorporating their knowledge of the passive sentence into their use of grammar.Class B2 levelStudent count 50 pupils50 minute session durationMaterials
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Stage Aim Timing Interaction Teacher Activity Student Activity
Introduction The stage is aimed at reviewing the students' knowledge on the listening lesson already completed. The teacher explains the stories given in the previous lesson and their importance. 3 The teacher gives a short story about animals to provoke the students' reasoning. Students are asked to predict the aim of the story. Students are also asked to identify the tenses used in the story. According to Adams and Hamm, these stories are very helpful to students. The teacher starts the lesson as usual.
Students are reminded about the date, day and the weather.
Teacher shows some images from the hand out to activate learners' knowledge on the topic.
Students are shown sentences from the stories in the previous lesson that are in passive form. Students respond to the teacher's queries about the day the date and the weather.
They also watch the pictures presented to them by their teacher.
Presentation stage. Students' understanding of the sentence structure is determined at this stage.
5 The teacher introduces cards with phrases in passive form to enable every student to understand the topic better.
Students analyse the cards in groups. The teacher uses several sentences from the listening lesson and explains their structure to the student.
Teacher explains the students how to identify phrases in the passive form.
The teacher extracts a paragraph from the listening lesson and asks the student to identify passive phrases from it. Students identify passive phrases from the paragraph presented by the teacher.
Students also identify specific words that make the phrases to be in passive form
Students also express their views on the understanding of the previous topic.
This stage is aimed at introducing some vocabularies encountered in the listening lesson. 3 The teacher reads out the vocabularies and students write them down. The teacher explains the meaning of vocabularies such as, bringing up children, legend, autistic, kidnaping, jungle, disprove, among others used in the listening lesson. Students take note as the teacher defines the vocabularies to them.
This stage is aimed at testing the understanding of the vocabularies encountered in the listening lesson. 10 The teacher asks some questions about the vocabularies
Students give their response. The teacher helps students to use the vocabularies explained in the previous stage in forming sentences. Students form sentences using the vocabularies based on the teacher's directions.
Students expand their grammatical skills on passive tenses in this stage. 4 Students use the knowledge acquired in identifying passive voice sentences from the stories with the guidance of their teacher. The teacher gives an assignment to test students' understanding of the lesson. They are asked to identify sentences where the vocabularies were found from the listening lesson stories. The students carry out the assignment given to them by the teacher.
Examples of some passive phrases from the listening lesson are introduced to students. 10 Both the teacher and the students actively search for phrases in passive form from the stories. The teacher highlights some of the passive phrases encountered in the previous lesson. Adams 2017 advocates for such an activity which according to him is critical for the student to have a better understanding of the topic. Students follow up as the teacher's highlights the passive phrases from the stories.
Students learn how to write sentences in passive form. 5 The teacher gives examples of passive form sentences as the students follow up. The teacher guides students on how to form sentences in passive voice. The main activity at this stage is to form sentences in passive voice.
Application of the grammar skills acquired in this lesson. 5 The teacher gives out instructions to be used at this stage, Students express their understanding of the instructions. Students are given an assignment to form sentences in passive form. The students complete the assignment given by their teacher.
Students demonstrate their knowledge on passive voice as learnt in this lesson. 5 The teacher asks students whether they have any difficulties on the topic of the day. Students are expected to give their response to the teachers question. Cockrum, claims that it is very important for the teacher to give the students a chance to have a summary of what they have learnt. The teacher asks students to write a summary of what they have learnt in the lesson. Responses are analysed and those of student's facing difficulties are accorded the necessary support as the lesson comes to an end Students analyse whatever they have learnt in the lesson and put it down in a summarised way.
Works Cited
Adams, Dennis, & Hamm, Mary. Engaging eager and reluctant learners: STEM learning in action. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2017.
Cockrum, Troy. Flipping Your English Class to Reach All Learners: Strategies and Lesson Plans. Taylor and Francis, 2013.
