Lead-in

The lesson plan

Lesson 4

Work in groups

Speaking practice

Listening comprehension

I.

1. Tom's Uncle Philip was a scientist and an inventor

2. He made a lot of discoveries and even received the Nobel Prize in chemistry. But he was a strange man, he lived alone, had no wife or friends.

3. He sent for his nephew.

4. He said that he was a rich man and decided to leave him all his fortune in an iron box in a bank.

5. But before opening the box Tom had to read a letter.

6. It was written that the box contained a great fortune. It also contained powerful dynamite, which would explode after opening the box.

7. Why did Uncle Philip decide to act in this way?

8. Can you think of any plan for opening the box?

These two last questions are asked not only just to answer the questions, as the previous five, but let involve students into discussion, express their opinion in group. The previous questions were given as the preliminary step for the following discussion. We recommend to remind students to start to speak with useful expressions, given before Sometimes theyforget about it:

In my opininion as for me I’m not really sure, but

if I’m not mistaken to my mind it seems to me that

I don’t know exactly, but I think that from my point of view

as far as I understand I suppose I believe that

II.Retell the story.

III. You are Tom. Tell us what you know about your uncle and his decision to leave his fortune to you.

IV. Give students some time to think and encourage them to speak.

On/offline activity

All groups are given the same websites but different tasks. Encourage them to make an interesting report after finding the information. This task may be given for homework.

The information about the foundation of the Nobel Prize Fund:

On November 27, 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel signed his last will and testament and set aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prizes, to be awarded annually without distinction of nationality. He died of a stroke on December 10, 1896 at Sanremo, Italy. He left 31 million kronor (4,223,500 USD₁₈₉₆~103,931,888 USD₂₀₀₇) to fund the prizes/.

The facts about the first Nobel Prize Winners (the name of the winners, the nationality, the year, and the fields of their activity):

(Röntgen (1901) • Lorentz / Zeeman (1902) • Becquerel / P.Curie / M.Curie (1903) Rayleigh (1904) • Lenard (1905)/).

1. Lead-in (7 min.)

2. Lexical exercise (5 min)

3. Reading, reading comprehension, discussion (20 min)

4. On/offline activity ( 25 min)

5. Writing. Online activity. Work in pairs ( 20min)

6. Homework.

Students aren’t expected to know these dates, the idea is for them to speculate and try to guess.

telephone – 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell in the USA

dishwasher – 1886 by Josephine Cochrane in Shelbyville, USA: she

wanted a mashine to wash dishes faster than her

servants could!

ballpoint pen -1938 by Ladislo Biro in Hungary

colour TV -1940 by Peter Goldmark in the USA

CD – 1965 by James Russell in Columbus, USA, but the first

CDs were marketed by Philips in 1980

e-mail – 1971 by Ray Tomlinson in Cambridge, USA

video-recorder – 1975 by Sony in Japan: the first Betamax VCR cost 2295!

personal computer -1976 The Apple I was realised on April 1st by Steve Jobs

and Wozniak in the USA.

mobile phone - 1979 by Motorolla in the USA: this was the first cellular

network.

DVD - 1995 by Philips, Sony, Matsushita and Toshiba

Leo Jones, Making Progress, Cambridge University Press.

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