Lesson plan

SCHOOL:
ENGLISH TEACHER:
DATE 13th March 2012
GRADE: 11th
TIME OF LESSON: 50 min
TYPE OF LESSON: Teaching grammar - Passive Voice
METHODS: conversation, explanation, dialogue, exercise
SKILLS: listening, reading, speaking, writing
CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS: individual work, pair work
TEACHING AIDS: blackboard, worksheets, posters, video projector.
AIMS: - to be capable to identify a Passive Voice form
- to be capable to put verbs into the Passive Voice
- to be able to transform sentences from the Active Voice into the Passive Voice
- to be capable to notice the changes that occur during the transformation from the Passive
Voice into the Active Voice for the Present Tense Simple, Past Tense Simple and Future
Tense Simple.

Nr Stage of
lesson

Teachers activity

1.

Checking
attendance

T. greets the pupils and then he checks

attendance Who is missing today?

2.

Warm-up

Students activity

Aids

T. greets the pupils and

then he checks attendance
Who is missing today?
T. tells the pupils 7 definitions of certain
Ss listen carefully to the T. Blackboar
things, in order to form the words:
and write on the blackboard d, chalk
1 2 3 4 5 67
and on their notebooks the
P A S S I VE
respective words, realizing
AN E UNOG
that the name of the new
I T A NT IG
lesson is Passive Voice.
N
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T
RE
E
S
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1. a person who paints
2. a little insect that lives in the
ground
3. a big amount of water
4. it is in the sky and it is hot
5. it is not boring, it is?!
6. helps us communicate and is heard
by the ears
7. it is made by the hen.

Aims
To check
attendance
To check the
accomplishment
of given
instructions, and
to understand
the name of the
new lesson

3.

Checking
homework

T. checks if the Ss had any homework.

Ss tell the t. they didnt

have any homework.

4.

Announcing
the new
lesson and
the
objectives

T. writes on the blackboard the name of

the new lesson. Passive Voice .
T. tells the Ss that they will learn the
rules of the Passive Voice for the Present
Tense Simple, Past Tense Simple and
Future Tense Simple and the changes that
occur.

Ss listen to the teacher

5.

Introducing T. gives the Ss a new text and reads it.

the new
After that the T. tells the pupils to
lesson
observe the verbs and to underline them.
Then he explains them that the respective
verbs are in the Passive Voice.
T. begins to tell the Ss the changes that
occur:
- the Subject becomes the person who
does the action , but it doesnt suffer it
(receives the prep. by )
- the Direct Object becomes the Subject.
- the verb from the Active Voice is

Ss receive the text and

underline the verbs that are
in the Passive Voice .
Ss pay attention to the T. and
take notes.

Notebooks To check the

accomplishment
of given
instructions
Blackboar To make Ss.
d, chalk
aware about the
items they will
learn

Blackboar To observe and

d, chalk
understand the
changes that
take place.

written in the Past Participle or gets the

ED ending.
- the auxiliary TO BE receives the time
and the aspect of the verb from the
Active Voice.
T. gives the pupils an example for the
Future, Past and Present:
Present
AV We serve breakfast at 7 a.m.
PV Breakfast is served at 7 a.m. by us.

To understand
better the
Passive Voice.

Ss write in their notebooks

the examples.

Past
AV They delivered the milk.
PV The milk was delivered by them.
Future
AV I will say a story.
PV A story will be said by me.
After that the T. explains to the pupils
that there are verbs which can have two
Direct Objects, so we can make two
sentences in the Passive Voice.
Then, the T. shows the pupils that the
pronoun I becomes by me, you- by you,
he- by him, she-by her, we- by us, youby you, they- by them.

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6.

Acquiring
performanCe

7.

Feed-back

8.

Assigning
the
homework

Activity 1. T. tells two students to go in

front of the class and make o sentence
with a transitive verb. Another one
should put that sentence into a Passive
form.
T. asks the pupils to write on the
blackboard the new formed sentences.
The other Ss are asked to correct their
colleagues, if necessary.
Activity 2. T. gives the students, who are
split into groups, to arrange the mixed
words, to make a sentence and to put it
inot the Passive.
Activity 3. T. shows them a Power Point
presentation with three images and they
have to explain what they see, using
Passive Voice.
Activity 4. T. gives the Ss a worksheet
with exercises that help the pupils
understand how to transform the Active
Voice into the Passive Voice.
T. asks the pupils about the theme that
they have debated.
T. asks the pupils to make 5 sentences
and to transform them into Passive Voice.

Ss do as required and
correct their colleagues if
they make a mistake.

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d
Posters
Book,
blackboar
d, chalk.

To check if the
Ss
comprehended
the Passive
Voice.

Worksheet
Ss arrange the words and
write the Passive sentence
on the blackboard.
Ss make sentences.

Ss solve the exercises from

the worksheet.
Ss answer that the theme
was the Passive Voice.
Ss write the instructions on
their notebook.

Getting a proper
feed-back

PASSIVE VOICE

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