LESSON PLAN Bicycle History
LESSON PLAN Bicycle History
LANGUAGE SKILLS:
Speaking- productive skill
Reading- receptive skill
Writing- productive skill
Listening- receptive skill
TEACHING TECHNIQUES:
Explanation
Conversation
Questions and answers
PROCEDURE
ACTIVITY 1 / WARM UP
TEACHERS ACTIVITY : Teacher tries to create a pleasant and comfortable atmosphere by
means of routine conversation: Greetings. Oral questions (Whos on duty today? Whos
absent? How are you today?).
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: Students answer the teachers questions. The students greet the
teacher
Hello teacher! .. is on duty. .. is absent!
METHODS : Conversation
EVALUATION: Oral evaluation
INTERACTION: T SS, SS T
TIME:1-3 min
ACTVITY 2 / LEAD-IN
TEACHERS ACTIVITY : Teacher writes two questions on the blackboard and elicits the
theme of todays lesson. Teacher gives them a few minutes to think about and then choose
some students to answer the task.
When and where do you think the bicycle was invented?
How do you think the bicycle changed the society
After the students answer freely to the questions, the teacher writes the title of the lesson on the
board.
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: They answer freely to the teachers questions thinking of the
advantages and disadvantages of the bicycle, thinking of how this means of transport changed
the life of their ancestors.
METHODS : Conversation
EVALUATION: Oral and written evaluation
INTERACTION: T SS, SS T
TIME:5 min
ACTVITY 3 / READING
TEACHERS ACTIVITY: Teacher split the students in pairs and they have to read the text
about the history of the bicycle, the changes in its design and why it was the greatest
technological invention since 1800. They have to match the headings to the paragraph. If the
students seem to have problems in matching the heading, teacher asks them to read each
paragraph in turn and then look back at the sentences for clues to do with reference words,
grammar. At the end of the activity the teacher shows the students a PPT about the history of
bicycle in pictures, so that students could understand better the message of the text.
STUDENTS ACTIVITY: Students read the text and solve exercise 3 in pairs. They could
compare their answers with their partner before checking with the class.
METHODS: explanation, questions and answers
EVALUATION: written evaluation
INTERACTION: T SS, SS SS, SS- T
TIME: 10 min
CULTURAL NOTES
mate is a colloquial word for a friend. It is used here anachronistically.
A dandy is a fashionable young man.
A rupture is a tear in the bodily tissue.
Bicycling is an old-fashioned term for cycling.
A suffragist was a woman who took part in public protests about giving women
suffrage (the right to vote) in the early 1900s; also called a suffragette.
To emancipate someone is to free them.
A corset is a stiff piece of underwear worn by women to make their waists look
thin.
A tenement is a block of flats; the word is often used to describe huge,
overcrowded blocks, notably in nineteen century London and New York