LESSON PLAN

School:

Level: Intermediate

Number of students: 31

Class: VIIth grade / CDS

Topic: Unit 3: MEDIA MATTERS – History of Film

Textbook: Close-Up B1+, National Geographic Learners, Cengage Learning

Content: - Video Viewing

- Use of English and Vocabulary Practice

Time: 50’

Aims:
 General aims:
 to enrich Ss’ vocabulary using modern technology;
 to develop vocabulary through various lexical structures;
 to develop Ss' communicative competence by using proper vocabulary and lexical
structures;
 to reinforce Ss’ confidence in their ability to use the English language;
 to encourage Ss to come up with their own arguments and examples;

 Specific aims:
 to prepare students for the video;
 to engage their background knowledge about the topic;
 to create interest in what they will watch;
 to watch the video for gist comprehension;
 to watch and listen closely for detail;
 to recycle target vocabulary and test Ss' understanding of the video;
 to revise the main points of the video paying attention to the sequence of events;
 to complete the summary of the video with the missing words;
 to decide whether the missing words are nouns, verbs, adjectives or adverbs;
 to reinforce learning phrasal verbs;
 to complete the sentences with the correct particle;
 to match the phrasal verbs to their definitions or synonyms.
Skills: Listening, Reading, Speaking, Writing,

Assumptions: If the students find difficulties in completing the previewing, while-viewing

and post-viewing activities, the teacher may pause, rewind or fast-forward the video to help
students focus on key segments or events.

For further activities / classes, the following could be taken into account:

 Discussion about documentary films. Working in pairs, the students could take turns
in asking and answering the following questions - If you could make a documentary
film what subject would you choose? Why? - Ask some pair to answer the questions
for the class.
 Discussion about important films in history. Lead a class discussion about what
they think has been the most important film in history, starting from a list given.

Activities: - video viewing;

- vocabulary and lexical practice;
- pair work;
- individual work;
- written assignment.

Aids: - Ss’ book;

- worksheets;
- whiteboard;
- laptop
- overhead projector.

Stages of the Teacher’s and Interaction Skill and Aims Time

lesson student’s activity
activity
Warm up T asks about T- Ss, Reading, To revise and 5’
homework (the S-T, speaking, assess story
Ss have been T-S listening writing.
asked to solve
exercise H on Dialogue,
page 27 and written,
they hand in assignment
their stories to
the teacher.
They have
alredy been
explained the
rules to apply
in writing
stories all
 together with a
lot of practice
and examples).

T tells Ss that
in this lesson
they are going
to watch a
video about the
history of film
and they are
going to do
vocabulary
exercises
related to the
topic of the
unit, media
matters, and
they are also
going to do
some activities
with phrasal
verbs.

Activity 1 The teacher (T) T-S, S-T, S- Speaking, To prepare 5’

(LEAD-IN) asks Ss to read S Reading, students for the
the sentences 1 Writing video;
- 4 in task A
and explains dialogue, To engage their
anything they pair work background
do not knowledge
understand. T about the topic;
asks Ss to do
the activity in To create
pairs and interest in what
checks it as a they will
class, writing watch;
on the board
the correct
information for
each sentence.

1. F (The First
Academy
Awards
ceremony took
place on May
16th, 1929,
when the
awards were
 given for the
best films of
1927-1928);

2. F (Charlie
Chaplin was
born in London
on 16th April,
1889);

3. F (The first
films made
with sounds in
the 1900s were
called sound
films. The
name talkies
was given to
the first films
which included
synchronized
dialogue in the
1920s. the first
one of this kind
was The Jazz
Singer in
1927);

4. T (The first
documentaries
were made at
the end of the
19th century.
They were
single-shot
moments
captured on
film which
included a train
entering a
station, a boat
docking,
factory workers
leaving work.
The term
documentary
was not used
until 1926).
Activity 2 The T explains T-Ss, T-S, Listening, To watch the 15’
to Ss that they S-T, S-S Reading, video for gist
are now going Writing comprehension;
to watch the
video and asks video To watch and
them to read viewing, listen closely
the sentences individual for detail;
in task B and work
explains To recycle
anything they target
do not vocabulary and
undersatnd, test Ss'
giving understanding
explanations or of the video
synonyms to
each of them, if
necessary.
Then, asks
them to think
about which
words may be
correct, before
watching.

series (noun,
plural - same)

1. a number of
events, objects,
or people, of a
similar or
related kind
coming one
after another,
e.g. he gave a
series of
lectures on
modern art;

2. a set or
sequence of
related
television or
radio
programmes,
e.g. a new
drama series;

succession
(noun)

1. a number of
people or
things of a
similar kind
folowing one
after the other,
e.g. she had
been a
secretary to a
succession of
board
directors;

2. the action or
perocess of
inheriting a
title, office,
property, etc.,
e.g. the
succession to
the throne was
disputed;

bill (noun)

1. a printed or
written
statement of
the money
owed for goods
or services, e.g.
the bill for
their meal
came to £17;

2. a programme
of
entertainment
at a theatre or
cinema, e.g.
she was top of
the bill at
America's got
Talent;

fee (noun)

1. a payment
made to a
professional
person or to a
professional or
public body in
exchange for
advice or
services, e.g.
an annual
membership
fee;

production
(mass noun)

1. the action of
making or
manufacturing
from
components or
raw materials,
e.g. banning
the production
of chemical
weapons;

2. the process
of or
management
involved in
making a film,
play, or record,
e.g. the film
was still in
production;

3. (countable) a
film, play,
television or
radio
progreamme,
CD etc, e.g. a
new
production;

film (noun)

1. a series of
moving
pictures with
sound that you
can watch at
the cinema or
at home, e.g.
Have you seen
the new James
Bond film?;

movie (mainly
American)

1. a film shown
in a cinema or
television

simulation
(noun)

1. something
that seems real
but is not, e.g.
pilots training
with flight
simulation;

animation
(noun)

1. the process
or result of
making
animated films
or cartoons,
e.g. the first
film to be made
using computer
animation.

T plays the
video and asks
Ss to do the
task
individually
and checks it as
a class, playing
the part of the
video which
emphasises the
corect answer.

1.series (00.26)
2. fee (00.41)
3.productions
(01.29)
4.movie
(01.54)
5.animation
 (03.10)

Activity 3 The T explains T-Ss, T-S, Listening, To revise the 10’

to Ss that the S-T, S-S Speaking, main points of
text in task C is Reading, the video
the summary of Writing playing
the information attention to the
they heard on completing sequence of
the video. T gapped text, events;
reads the words individual
in the yellow work To complete
box to the Ss the summary of
and asks them the video with
to repeat them the missing
after her. words;

Afterwards, T To decide
asks Ss to write whether the
N, V, Adj, or missing words
Adv beside are nouns,
each of the verbs,
words adjectives or
depending on adverbs.
whether it is a
noun, verb,
adjective or
adverb. T
explains to Ss
that they
should read the
whole
summary
before writing
any answers
sirst to work
out which part
of speech is
missing. Ss
then read back
through the
text once they
have finished
to check their
answers. Ss do
the task
individually
and at the end
of the activity
T elicits
 answers in the
class.

1. experience
2. series
3.depicting
(represent by a
drawing,
painting;
describe)
4.sophisticated
5. aware
6. globe
7. medium
8. begin

Activity 4 The T divides T-Ss, T-S, Listening, To reinforce 10’

the class into S-T, S-S Speaking, learning
eight groups. Reading, phrasal verbs;
Then, writes Writing
the eight To complete
phrasal verbs phrasal verb the sentences
on the matching, with the correct
whiteboard, group work particle;
bring out,
bring round, To match the
pick out, pick phrasal verbs to
up, ring back, their definitions
ring in, tune in, or synonyms.
tune out, and
asks Ss to
complete the
sentences in
exercise B on
page 103 with
the correct
particle. When
the Ss are
ready, they
take turns in
reading the
sentences and
the particle
they have
chosen.

1. in;
2. out;
3. back;
4. out;
 5. out;
6. up;
7. round;
8. in.

Afterwards, the
T gives each
group two
envelopes, the
first one with
yellow stripes
with the eight
phrasal verbs
on them, and
the second one
with green
stripes with
both definitions
or synonyms
for each
phrasal verb on
them. T asks Ss
in groups to
match each
phrasal verb
with their
definitions /
synonyms. At
the end of the
activity, the T
elicits the
correct answers
with the class,
writing the
synonyms on
the board.
Feedback The T
and evaluates the
homework students’
performance in
class, marking
the ones who
give very good
answers.
As
homework, the
Ss are required
to write
definitions for
 all the
meanings of
the phrasal
verbs in
activity 4,
using their
dictionaries,
also exercise C,
on page 103
and E, F on
page 97.

Worksheet