LESSON PLAN Teacher: Alina Simu School: Onisifor Ghibu High School, Oradea Date: June 1st, 2012

Class: XI A (5 classes per week) Time: 50 minutes Level: Advanced L1 Lesson: Our Changing World Textbook: Upstream Advanced Express Publishing Aims: to expand students vocabulary and awareness of technological advances to encourage students to express their outlook on various technological inventions, their advantages and disadvantages Objectives: By the end of the lesson the students: will have identified technological advances and discussed their influences on our lives will have learnt about technological discoveries already in use will have listened for specific information will have speculated upon the future of technology Skills: listening, speaking, reading Methods: conversation, question-answer, group work Previous knowledge: Students have a wide range of vocabulary and are able to express their opinions clearly. Anticipated problems: Students may find it difficult to speculate upon the technological future of humanity. Teaching materials: textbook, blackboard, CD player, video

Lesson Stages:

Activity 1: Warm Up Aims: to set the students in the right mood for starting the lesson Skill focus: speaking Timing: 5 min. Procedure: T greets the Ss and marks the absents. T asks the Ss to read their homework. They had to write a paragraph about the two most important technological advances in their lives. Activity 2: Lead-in Aims: to encourage communication Skill focus: speaking Timing: 10 min. Procedure: T asks Ss to look at the pictures on page 99 in their books. Ss have to identify the technological changes illustrated by the pictures: traffic congestion, reliance on the car, technology, computers, the Internet, climate changes, flooding, drought, architecture, inner cities, and environment. Then, T asks Ss questions like: How will these changes affect our lives in the future? Which will have the greatest impact on our lives? Which are changes for the better and which for the worse? T announces the title of the new lesson and writes it on the blackboard: Our Changing World. Activity 3: Listening Activity Aims: to provide Ss with a broader range of opinions on changes in lifestyle Skill focus: listening Timing: 10 min. Procedure: T tells Ss they are going to be listening to people talking about changes in lifestyle. T elicits what changes Ss think might arise in the discussion. Ss listen once to see if they predicted correctly. Ss listen again to do the task, identifying the speaker to the changes presented.

A: travel, means of transport - people travelled less and shorter distances in the past - long haul travel is popular and easy today - in the future people will travel into space B: banking - the service was more personal in the past - nowadays the service is impersonal - in the future people wont need cash because of the Internet C: health, eating habits - in the past, people ate what they wanted or could afford - nowadays people are more health conscious - in the future food will be replaced by vitamin supplements

Activity 4: Group work Aims: to encourage students to be aware of the future of technology and speculate upon the advantages and disadvantages of the technological development in our lives Skill focus: speaking Timing: 10 minutes Procedure: T asks Ss to watch a video presenting ten of the future technological inventions that are already used in real life, in various domains. Then, T asks Ss to look at exercise 3, p. 99 and to decide which of the technological advances listed there will occur in the next 50 years. Ss work in groups, discussing and giving reasons for their opinions. As an extra activity, Ss fill in a questionnaire with their beliefs about the future (worksheet Upstream Advanced Workbook). Activity 5: Homework (5 min.) T assigns the homework: Ss have to paraphrase one of the quotations in ex. 4/ p. 99.