Lesson plan

Title of the lesson: Maria Montessori

Level:1st form
Objective(s): Enabling Sds to:

 Predict content from core vocab

 Scan for specific details
 Categorize ideas

Skills: Reading/speaking /Writing

Function(s): narrating past events

Structures: The passive voice

Lexical items: approve of-corporal-frightening-revolution-punishment

Learning aids: textbook, worksheets

Procedures: Class organization: Timing

1) Pre-reading stage: Spider gram about school life: Individual work .....mn
Bright colours-pictures-games-play-teachers-toys -happiness

2) Reading stage: Read pgh 1 and complete the table:

Name nationality jobs date of date of

birth death
Maria Italian Doctor 1870 1953
Montessori inspector

Read the rest of the text and find out her achievements:
She made a revolution in education:

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 The old method
--to learn lesson by heart so
you are a receiver
--corporal punishment
--learners were seated in black
uncomfortable desks arranged
in fixed rows
The new method
--“learn through play” esp. in
kindergartens(coloured toys)
--paint/draw
--to discover things by
themselves
--respect/encouragement
kindness

So, pupils are treated in a bad way by teachers.

Teachers treated pupils in a bad way.
Real subject

VOICE SUBJECT VERB OBJECT

Active John sold The house
passive The house Was sold By John

To be in the simple past +past participle of the verb

He keeps the door open. The door is kept open

He is selling the car. The car is being sold.
He closed the window. The window was closed
He was opening the room. The room was being opened
He has written the book. The book has been written

Post reading: (writing)

Have learners write about a paragh about school.
Write about your school, your class, your teachers, and your
classroom the subjects you’re studying this year and the school
atmosphere. Where is the school? What is like? How many pupils
are there in your class? Which subjects do you prefer? Why? what
are your teachers like?:severe,kind,excellent etc

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 Warm up: 1/Have an open class discussion with Ss about the circus. Ask questions
like “have you ever been to a circus?” “What did you see?” to try to elicit vocab they already
know.

2/ Use the pictures worksheet to pre-teach key vocab from the song.

Listening1: children listen to the song and put the pictures on the worksheet in the correct
order according to the song.

Listening2: Children listen again and put the verses in the correct order on the worksheet.

Practise: Elicit from the Ss what the different circus performers do: example: what does the
strongman do: he lifts weights with one hand/ what do the clowns do? The fall down in a
pile.

Production:Ss can do some creative writng, for example, imagining that they have been to the
circus and describing their day

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