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Humanising Language Teaching
Year 4; Issue 4; July 02
Growing Tea – present simple passive Secondary and Adult
taken from Teaching Geography in Secondary Schools ed. M, Smith, Open Univ Press, 2002.
Tell the students to work in pairs and to re-organise the sentences below into the correct process sequence.
1. Fermentation in a cool, damp room to make black tea.
2. The plants are pruned so they become bushes not tress.
3. Two leaves and a bud are picked from each plant.
4. Tea is sold in auction, eg London.
5. Into our teapots.
6. The land is cleared and broken up and fertilised, ready for planting.
7. For green tea the process stops here.
8. Different types of tea are blended together.
9. Tea is packed into chests for export.
10. The harvested tea is taken to a special building for withering.
11. Young tea plants are grown in nurseries.
12. Plants are covered with bamboo frames to shade them from the sun.
13. The tea is taken to the factory to be packeted.
14. Tea is taken by vans to the shops and supermarkets.
15. Firing- to produce the black tea we drink.
16. The leaves are rolled to remove any remaining juices.
17. The plants are transplanted to fields on the hillsides.
18. Plants are sprayed to prevent disease.
Note: Sometimes we find ready-made teaching materials in books designed to
teach other subjects.
This sort of exercise is excellent for accustoming novice academic writers to
come to grips with the use of