3 четверть, раздел 7, примерная дата в планировании – конец февраля, начало марта. Интерактивный плакат разработан с помощью сервиса genial.ly.
Людмила СИДОРЕНКО,
учитель английского языка,
ГУО «Средняя школа № 41
имени А.М. Кузнецова г. Гродно»
Materials and equipment:
– a multi board;
– internet resources;
– interactive poster genial.ly (link to the project );
– students’ mobile phones;
– supplement materials — photocopies/ a table «Famous People»;
Topic: Great People
Lesson 6: The story of success and failure
The aim of the lesson: at the end of the lesson students will be able to express their opinion on success and failure.
Students will
– learn new words from active vocabulary of the lesson;
– study the inversion in English;
– be able to speak about famous Americans (their success and failure) using phrases with inversion.
Key – questions: What is success? How can you achieve success in your future life? How can you prove that failure is the first step towards success?
Lesson plan
Stage of the lesson: warming up (4 min)
To create the atmosphere of the foreign language; to provide positive motivation for learning English, to provide free oral practice in a communication activity.
Teacher’s activity Greetings, monitor students’ answers.
Yesterday surfing the net I came across the article «51 Quotes to Inspire Success in Your Life and Business». Now I want to share this information with you. Look at the screen. Here you can see some quotes of famous people about success. Choose the one you like and express your point of view.
Pupils’ activity Pupils give their opinion/agree or disagree with the quote.
Interaction model: T – P1-P2-P3…
Some quotes to inspire success in your life and business:
1. «Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.» – Winston S. Churchill.
2. «It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.» – Herman Melville.
3. «The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.» – Colin R. Davis.
4. «Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.» – Henry David Thoreau.
5. «Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.» – Chris Grosser.
6. «Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.» – John D. Rockefeller.
7. «I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.» – Thomas Jefferson.
To claim aims of the lesson
Today we are going to describe what the success is? Is it possible to become successful without any failure in your life?
Stage of the lesson: presentation of the vocabulary (4 min)
To learn new words of the lesson.
To stimulate abilities for self-study and self-check.
Teacher’s activity Use your mobile phones, an interactive poster and links to the Cambridge Dictionary to understand the meanings of the words.
Pupils’ activity Pupils work independently then check as a class.
Interaction model: P1 – Cl, P2 – Cl…
Active vocabulary of the lesson.
attempt / broke / fail / failure / fire / honorary /influential /outstanding / numerous / turn down
Look at the definitions and guess the words.
DEFINITIONS
– to try to do something, especially something difficult;
– to not succeed in what you are trying to achieve or are expected to do;
– the fact of someone or something not succeeding;
– without money;
– clearly very much better than what is usual;
– to remove someone from their job;
– given as a reward;
– having a lot of influence on someone or something;
– very famous and admired or spoken about;
– if the economy or market turns down, there is less business activity and fewer opportunities to make money.
Stage of the lesson: presentation of grammar (7 min)
To form receptive grammatical skills.
Teacher’s activity Look at the photos of these outstanding people. Do you know them? They were very successful and famous. Has it always been like this?
Pupils’ activity Read the sentence and guess a famous person.
Interaction model: T – Cl
Who is the sentence about?
1. He made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. (T. Edison)
2. He didn’t seem to promise any success after giving up his studies at Harvard and starting his first business that failed. (B. Gates)
3. The first book by this author, the iconic thriller Carrie, was turned down 30 times. (S. King)
4. His early businesses failed and left him broke five times be- fore he founded the successful Motor Company. (T. Ford)
5. Hardly had he started his first job in a newspaper when he was fired because, “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” (W. Disney)
6. Despite becoming a successful lawyer, he did not have a degree. (A. Lincoln)
7. It might have taken him a bit longer, but he caught on pretty well in the end, winning the Nobel Prize and changing the face of modern physics. (A. Einstein)
Teacher’s activity
Have you paid your attention to the sentence № 5?
These expressions can be used (often with a past perfect tense) to talk about two events that happen one after another. Study the examples given below.
No sooner had the train arrived at the station than the passengers rushed towards it.
Scarcely had I reached the station when the train steamed out.
Hardly had I closed my eyes when the telephone rang.
Pupils’ activity Practice the rule using the interactive exercise (Annex 1).
Interaction model: P1 – P2 – P3…
Stage of the lesson: moving activity (2 min)
To relax, change activities.
Teacher’s activity Now you should split into pairs. One of you has the beginning of the question, the other has the end.
Pupils’ activity Make up questions and sit down in accordance to it.
Interaction model: P – CL
Interaction model: P – P
1. What’s the name of the person?
2. Where was he born?
3. Who were his parents?
4. How did he study at school?
5. What is he famous for?
6. Were his early years successful?
7. Is he suffer because of the failure?
8. What problems did he have to face?
9. Why do you think he was so popular and successful?
Stage of the lesson: actualization of the covered material (8 min)
To develop listening and writing skills
At home students revised question structure, worked with the information and filled in the table about 4 famous people (A. Einstein, A. Lincoln, T. Edison, B. Gates) (Annex 2).
An individual task for 2 students prepared information about W. Disney, H. Ford.
At the lesson one student speaks about a famous person the others fill in the table. Work in pairs to help each other.
Interaction model: P-Cl / P-P
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Stage of the lesson: work with the video (7 min)
To develop listening skills.
Teacher’s activity You filled in the table about 6 famous people. Now look at your table, look at the pictures and tell who of the people we have not talked about. (Stephen King) Removing vocabulary barriers before watching the video (nailed the rejection/ piling up/ impale/ a spike/ misfit) .
Pupils’ activity After watching the video answer the questions from previous exercise and fill in the table. Work in pairs to help each other.
Interaction model: T-Cl/ P-P
Stage of the lesson: oral practice (6 min)
To develop monologue skills.
Teacher’s activity Ask the questions Whose story-life motivates you? Why?
Work in pairs. Sum up the information of the lesson to answer the following questions:
How can you achieve success in your future life?
How can you prove that failure is the first step towards success? (Try to use some sentences with inversion in your speech).
Pupils’ activity Pupils answer the questions.
Interaction model: P1-P2-P3…
Stage of the lesson: assigning home task (2 min)
Teacher’s activity Explain h/t.
Make a presentation and be ready to speak about 2 famous British people. Use sentences with inversion in your home task.
Pupils’ activity Pupils put down their tasks in the record books.
Interaction model: T– Cl
Stage of the lesson: reflection (3 min)
Teacher’s activity.
Use menti.com and answer the question: How can you achieve success in your future life? https://www.menti.com/2zcnyyffed.
Pupils’ activity Pupils answer the question.
Interaction model: T– P1-P2
Stage of the lesson: assessment (2 min)
To assess and motivate pupils Interaction model: T-P1 T-P2
QR-code on the interactive poster
Annex 1
Annex 2
BILL GATES
William Henry Gates III was born on the 28th October 1955 in Seattle, Washington. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, a software developer, an author. He was the second child born of Mary Maxwell Gates (a teacher) and his father William H. Gates Sr (a then senior lawyer). Young Bill stayed all by himself during his early years in school. So, when he turned 13, he entered the Lakeside School, where he realized that he wanted to study computer programming. In his early years, he giving up of Harvard and started a failed business with his friend. Although the first idea was unsuccessful, he continued to work and created Microsoft. The most unique thing in the success story of Bill Gates is that he not only introduced new technologies, but also adapted existing technologies, and then created his way with the help of advertising strategies.
WALT DISNEY
Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in the Hermosa section of Chicago, Illinois. Walter Elias Disney was the fourth son of Elias Disney a farmer and a building contractor and his wife Flora Call a public school teacher. At school he photographed, made drawings for the school newspaper and studied cartoons as he hoped to get a job as a newspaper cartoonist. Hardly had he got his first job when he was fired because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas”. Then Disney with his brother started a small studio of their own in 1922 and acquired a secondhand movie camera with which they made one and two-minute animated advertising films for distribution to local movie theatres. Together they created Mickey Mouse, with Disney providing the voice—that starred in the first animated film with sound Steamboat Willie. A perfectionist, an innovator, and a skilled businessman, Walt Disney controlled the company in both creative and business aspects.
HENRY FORD
Henry Ford (born July 30, 1863, Wayne county, Mich., U.S.—died April 7, 1947, Dearborn, Mich.), U.S. an industrialist and a pioneer automobile manufacturer. Henry Ford was one of eight children born by William and Mary Ford. He was born on a farm near Dearborn, Michigan. Ford worked his way up from a machinist’s apprentice (at age 15) to the post of chief engineer at the Edison Company in Detroit. He built his first experimental car in 1896. In 1903, with several partners, he formed the Ford Motor Company. In 1908 he designed the Model T; the demand became so great that Ford developed new mass-production methods, including the first moving assembly line in 1913. He developed the Model A in 1928 to replace the Model T, and in 1932 he introduced the V-8 engine. He observed an eight-hour workday and paid his workers far above the average, holding that well-paid laborers become the consumers that industrialists require. As the first to make car ownership affordable to large numbers of Americans, he exerted a vast and permanent influence on American life.
THOMAS EDISON
Thomas Alva Edison, (born February 11, 1847, Milan, Ohio, U.S.—died October 18, 1931, West Orange, New Jersey), an American inventor who, singly or jointly, held a world-record 1,093 patents. In addition, he created the world’s first industrial research laboratory. Born by Samuel Ogden Edison Jr and Nancy Matthews Elliott Thomas Edison was the youngest of the seven children. While his father was an exiled political activist, his mother was employed as a teacher. Interestingly, young Edison received his formal education for just about 12 weeks. He read a wide range of subjects and soon developed the habit of self-education. He developed many devices such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These inventions have had a widespread impact on the modern industrialized world.
STEPHEN KING
Stephen King, in full Stephen Edwin King, (born September 21, 1947, Portland, Maine, U.S.), an American novelist and short-story writer whose books were credited with reviving the genre of horror fiction in the late 20th century. His father Donald Edwin King was a merchant seaman and his mother was Nellie Ruth. His father abandoned the family when Stephen was two years old leaving his wife to provide for herself and her two sons. He graduated from Lisbon Falls High School. While at school he used to write for fun and even sold his stories to his friends. One of his stories was published in the fanzine ‘Comics Review’ in 1965. He enrolled at the University of Maine in 1966 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English in 1970. He used to do part time jobs to support his education. He earned a certificate to teach high school after leaving the university. His first published novel Carrie appeared in 1974 and was an immediate popular success. Now his books have sold more than 350 million copies and have been used into many movies and television films.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln, (born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Kentucky, U.S.—died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.). his father was Thomas Lincoln and his mother was Nancy Lincoln. Lincoln’s father was a hardworking man. Through his efforts he became one of the richest men in the country. Abraham founded many failed business and lost in numerous elections for public office in which he participated. He taught himself law and in 1836 passed the examination. He became a successful lawyer. In 1856 he joined the Republican Party, which nominated him as its candidate in the 1858 Senate election. In a series of seven debates with Stephen A. Douglas he argued against the extension of slavery into the territories. Despite his loss in the election the debates brought him national attention. In the 1860 presidential election he ran against Douglas again and won by a large margin in the electoral college. His platform included passage of the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery. At his second inaugural with victory in he spoke of moderation in reconstructing the South and building a harmonious Union.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Württemberg, Germany—died April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.),
Einstein’s parents were middle-class Jews. His father, Hermann Einstein, was originally a salesman and later ran an electrochemical factory with moderate success. His mother, the former Pauline Koch, ran the family household. He had one sister. In 1897, at the age of 17, he enrolled in the mathematics and physics teaching diploma program at the Swiss Federal polytechnic school in Zürich, graduating in 1900. After graduation Einstein faced one of the greatest crises in his life. Because he studied advanced subjects on his own, he often cut classes; this earned him the animosity of some professors, especially Heinrich Weber. Unfortunately, Einstein asked Weber for a letter of recommendation. Einstein was subsequently turned down for every academic position that he applied to. In 1905, he was awarded a PhD by the University of Zurich. In 1914, Einstein moved to Berlin in order to join the Prussian Academy of Sciences and the Humboldt University of Berlin. In 1917, Einstein became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. Einstein, of Jewish origin, objected to the policies of the newly elected Nazi government, he settled in the United States and became an American citizen in 1940. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century.
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