LESSON PLAN

Topic: Cell phone Addiction

Grade: 8th
Level: A2
Class: 8-A
Class Hour: 40-50 min.
School: H.C. Ünsal Secondary School

Aims

● To help students talk about cell phone addiction

● To develop students’ reading skills
● To develop students’ question formation skills
● To develop students’ communication skills

Pre- Lesson Stage ● Students will watch a video about cell 10 min
phone addiction and before they
watch, teacher will write the following
questions and get students
understand the questions. Then they
will watch the video,
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q
N11E74HIOE
Questions:
● what are people doing in the
video?
● There is a little boy in the
video, how does he feel?
● What kind of addiction people
have in the video?
● After teacher try to elicit the
topic by asking question
according to classroom
interaction.
● Then, teacher asks students
how many students use
cellphone?
While-Lesson Stage ● Teacher will give students the 15 min.
worksheet and direct them to task 1.
Give them a time limit of two minutes
to scan the text in task 1 and answer
the questions. (What is nomophobia
and what many people think about cell
phones?)
● Then, students read the text again in
more detail. They could work in pairs
to underline the information and say
each one refers to.

➢ 40 % :
➢ Nowadays, the best friend for
people:
➢ When people lose their phone,
they ……………………….
➢ People always spend time with
their phone and they don’t talk
to
………………………………… .
➢ Overuse of cellphones cause
…………………………………
…………………………………
………..

● Students are going to talk about a

comic about phone addiction

Post-Lesson Stage ● Students are going to imagine 20

situations where it may be really
useful to have a mobile phone and
unuseful situation.
● Then students are going to imagine a
world a cell phone never exist and
they will discuss about what happens
if the cell phone never exist?
● Then students will create a chart
about advantages and disadvanatges
of cellphones.(pairwork)
● What are the 3 primary benefits
you get out of using your smart
phone?
● What are the 3 ways in which your
smartphone has a negative effect
on you?
 ● Read the text quickly and answer these questions

1. What is nomophobia?
2. What do many people think about cell phones?

Cell Phone Addiction

Nomophobia is the fear of being without your smartphone and it affects 40% of the
population. The phones have become not just an object, and it is also the best friend
for many people. Many people suffer from anxiety when they lose their phone only
for a few minutes.

At the dinner table, it's becoming the normal to check texts, emails, tweets and
Facebook posts. In these times, people sleep with their phones and wake up with
them. And many people think "I must always have my phone with me" and it has
become such a real problem, this problem is known as nomophobia.

Today, people don't talk to friends or family and they always spend time with their
mobile phones. Overuse of your cell phone or smartphone can cause a number of
different physical problems that may cause permanent damage or be difficult to treat.
Some of them are eye and neck problems, depression and sleep problems.
Vocabulary
suffer: bir şeyden acı duymak

Task 2: Read the text again and find these expressions. What do the expressions
refer to?

1. 40 % …………………………………………………………………………………………....

2. Nowadays, the best friend for people ……………………………………………………....

3. When people lose their phone, they …………………………………………………………

4. People always spend time with their phone and they don’t talk to………………………....
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………

5. Overuse of cellphones cause ………………………………………………………………….

➢ Fun Activity​: Do you think everybody will be like this in future? Discuss the following
comics.

● Write about advantages and disadvantages of cell phones. Work in pairs.

USING CELL PHONE

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES