Lesson Plan for Passive Voice
Elif Başak Günbay, Turkey
Elif Başak Günbay is an English instructor at Gediz University. She is interested in teaching English to young adults. E-mail: elifgunbay@gmail.com
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About the lesson plan
Main lesson aims
Procedure
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
| About the lesson plan |
| Name of lesson plan activity: |
Passive Voice |
Type of student group
(age/s and ability levels)
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Number of Students: 18
Age: 18
Ability level: B1
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| Duration |
45 mins. |
To enable students to differentiate between active and passive voice.
To practice the meaning, form and function of passive voice. (S. Present and S. Past)
Materials: A General Knowledge Quiz for Warm-up (see Appendix 1)
Scrabble (see Appendix 2)
B1 level Reading Text
| Stage and Stage Aims |
Procedure |
Timing and Interaction |
Lead-in / Presentation of the Language
• To activate schemata
• Introducing the passive voice
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Divide the classroom into 2 or more groups and tell them that we’re going to play a General Knowledge Quiz Game. Ask the questions below one by one for each question give 1 minute. Each group writes their answer at the end of 1 minute. The group who gets the answer correct, gets one point. |
10 min.
T-S
S-S
S-T
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Language Focus
• To introduce the target language and to help students with meaning and form.
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Write one of the sentences on the board. Draw their attention to the structure of the sentence. Ask some CCQs to elicit the meaning of Passive Voice. |
10 min.
S-T
T-S
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Guided Discovery
• To promote learner autonomy
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In the next stage of the lesson, you give students a text and ask them to differentiate sentences with active and passive voice. Do some language focus. |
10 min.
S-T
T-S
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Practice
• To allow students more freedom to use the target structure.
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At the end of the lesson, students will work with a partner to use this passive voice scrabble below. They will create as many sentences as possible using the words below. The teacher monitors and help if necessary. In the end, the teacher will give delayed feedback. |
15 min.
S-S
S-T
T-S
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www.eltbase.com/vtr_item.php?type=mat&matid=836
Warm-up Questions
- Who was Titanic directed by? (James Cameron)
- Who was My heart will go on sung by? (Celine Dion)
- Who was Mona Lisa painted by? (Leonardo Da Vinci)
- How many babies are born every minute all over the world? (200)
- Where are most of world’s bananas grown? (Brazil)
- When was telephone invented? (1876)
- Which language is spoken in Netherlands? (Dutch)
- How many different alphabets are used in the world today? (65)
- Which country in the world is visited the most? (Italy)
- Who was dynamite discovered by? (Alfred Nobel)
Scrabble
| It | is | Made | China | Is | given | the food |
| watches | are | Seen | Japan | Were | sold | held |
| the couple | were | Eaten | a tiger | Was | were | the concert |
| my brother | was | Taken | to the police station | Are | stolen | was |
| the manager | was | arrested | hospital | Were | everyone | were |
| they | were | told | to go home | on Friday | last week | was |
| thirty people | is | called | have | the car | this year | are |
| the students | was | given | was | the jewels | since Christmas | been |
| the party | Henry | she | asked | to help | New York | in |
| in | to | to | by | By | by | to |
| is | repaired | sent | prison | By | he | she |
| in | on | in | to | these trousers | made | bought |
| was | were | seen | to leave | the president | attacked | London |
| a thousand dollars | found | taken | FREE | FREE | FREE | FREE |
| FREE | FREE | FREE | FREE | FREE | FREE | FREE |
Please check the English Language Improvement for Teachers course at Pilgrims website.
Please check the Creative Methodology for the Classroom course at Pilgrims website.
Please check the Methodology & Language for Secondary Teachers course at Pilgrims website.
Please check the Teaching Advanced Students course at Pilgrims website.
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