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LESSON PLAN

10th Grade (L1)

Title and type of the lesson: Unit 7 – History (Communicative lesson)
Student’s book: Upstream Upper – Intermediate (Express Publishing)

Aims of the lesson:

- To develop listening skills (listening for specific information);

- To develop speaking skills (talking about historical figures and events using specific vocabulary);
- To develop reading skills;
- To develop independent work skills;
- To raise historical and cultural awareness.

STAGES OF THE TEACHER’S ACTIVITY STUDENTS’ ACTIVITY TIMING

LESSON
1. Warm–up; Asks a few informal questions to make the students feel at ease: ‘How do Answer teacher’s questions
Homework you feel this morning?’, ‘Do you like the weather today?’ 5’
checking Checks if all the students have done their homework and corrects the Volunteers read the homework
errors made by them. aloud in order to compare it
with their classmates’.
2. Lead-in: Introductory questions: ‘What is history?’, ‘What words can you
Elicitation of new instantly associate with this notion?’ Work in pairs to do the task
words Asks students to work in pairs in order to make sentences about what the then read out their sentences to
(brainstorming) people in the picture on page 121 are famous for (by using the verbs in have them corrected by their
ex. 1). If they need help, the teacher explains a verb or gives them classmates or by the teacher.
information about a certain historical figure:
1. Christopher Columbus is famous for discovering America in
1492.
2. Mao Tse Tung is famous for ruling the People's Republic of
China from 1949 to 1959 and for being leader of the Communist
Party until his death.
3. Tsar Nicholas II is famous for being assassinated by the
Bolsheviks. Nicholas proved unable to manage a country in
political turmoil and command its army in World War I. His rule
ended with a forced abdication in 1917 when the Russian 10’
Revolution started.
4. Marie Curie – a French scientist of Polish origin - is famous for
discovering radium.
5. George Washington – a general and chief commander of the
American troops during British occupation - was elected the first
president of America when the Independence War was over
(1776).
6. Martin Luther King is famous for fighting for the civil rights of
the Negro population in the USA. He got the Noble Peace Prize
but was assassinated in 1968 while leading a protest march of
striking garbage workers.
7. Amadeus Mozart – an Austrian composer who lived in the 18th
century - is famous for having composed 50 symphonies starting
from a very early age.
8. Galileo Galilei is famous for claiming that the Earth moves round
the Sun. Also, he invented the telescope.
9. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) is famous for his military
 campaigns meant to conquer many territories of the world in
order to build a French empire.
10. Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603) is famous for her peaceful 45-year
reign of England.

Tape listening Plays the cassette about three historical figures and then elicits answers Listen and write down the 5’
from students concerning their identity. names of the respective
personalities.

3. Pre-reading Teacher gives worksheet 1 which contains three sentences and the Work in pairs. Read the text 5’
students have to guess if they are true or false. quickly and check.

While-reading Teacher helps the student if they don’t know the meaning of some words Read the text aloud. 5’
or how to pronounce them.

Post-reading After the reading of the text, teacher gives worksheet 2(a set of seven Students choose the correct 5’
questions) which is a checking for comprehension worksheet. anwers and underline the parts
of the text which helped them
decide.
4. Specific language Gives students the task of working in pairs in order to solve worksheet 3 Students resolve worksheet 3
focus: War & which contains 3 exercises.At the first one they have to make a list of 10’
Peace words related to the idea of war. Then, they have to fill in a spidergram
with the given words and at the last point, they have to complete some
sentences using words from the spidergram.
Goes around the class to correct mistakes.

5. Feed-back Gives homework: Describe an event or a personality which, in your

opinion, changed the course of history. Motivate your choice (250 5’
words).
Praises the most active students and marks them.