Tue 5/7/2022 - Lesson 2/3 - Unit 8A

• English
• Tertiary Education

Welcome back!

Tuesday, 5 July 2022

Write LessonUp code on the board

Write homework on the board

Today: 1st session (9:00 - 10:30)

• Check understanding of the tenses with LessonUp exercises (5 min)
  
• Vocabulary about art and music (30 min)
• Reading 8A (30 min)

Today: 2nd session (10:45-12:15)

• Instruction about the passive (15 min)
• Practice in LessonUp (30 min)
• SB exercises (20 min)

Today: 3rd session (13:00-14:00)

• Review SB exercises about the passive (20 min)
• Speaking exercise 5 (20 min)
• Time to work on homework (20 min)

Lesson goals

After this lesson, you should be able to...

• … use the passive (present and past simple) correctly
  
• … talk about art and music using related vocabulary
  
• … read and understand a text about the most popular works of art
  
• … understand and use common verbs related to the arts in the passive
  

Last lesson...

Answer the questions in LessonUp to check your understanding of the present simple and past simple.

Yesterday, I _______ (eat) a vegan sandwich for lunch.

1. eat
2. ate
3. eated
4. eatet

Water _______ (boil) at 100 degrees Celsius.

1. boiled
2. boil
3. boils
4. boiles

Vocabulary 8A (5 min)

• Most popular music album?
• Most popular TV series?
• Most popular painting?
• Most popular novel?

Vocabulary 8A (5 min)

• Look at the words from exercise 1a on SB p. 78.
  What do we call the people who create these things?
  
  
• Now match the pictures with the types of art and music.

Vocabulary 8A (5 min)

• Practice pronunciation by repeating the words after the teacher.
  
• Do you remember what a "syllable" is?
• Listen to the recording and and underline the stressed syllables.
• Compare your answers.

Vocabulary 8A (10 min)

Discuss: 

"Which kinds of art and music are you interested in?"

Talk about this in your group and compare your tastes. (5 min)

Tell your teacher about your findings. Are you surprised? (5 min)

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-continuous-exercise-1.html

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-continuous-exercise-1.html

Now, I can talk about art and music using related vocabulary

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Reading 8A (15 min)

• Which of the things of the pictures on SB p. 78-79 have you seen, read or listened to?
• Did you like/enjoy them? Why (not)?

Now read the article and underline the key words or terms from question 2b.

Reading 8A (15 min)

• Do exercise 2c individually (5 min). 
• Review with teacher and answer: "how and why did you come to this conclusion?"  (5 min)

If there's still time left:

• Do exercise 2d and 2e in your group/with a partner (5 min).

Now, I can read and understand a text about the most popular works of art

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The passive: what is it? (2 min)

• The passive voice is the opposite to the active voice.
  > "Everybody loves chocolate" - active
  > "Chocolate is loved by everybody" - passive
  
  

Q: Who wrote "A Tale of Two Cities"?

Finish the sentence:

• A Tale of Two Cities...
  (tip: look at the example sentences from exercise 3a)

The passive: grammatical structure (2 min)

• form of 'to be' + past participle
• Present: am, are, is / Past: was, were

Q: Which sentence is passive?

1. This bottle of ketchup has already been opened.
2. I have been tired for weeks.

The passive: why do we use it (1/2)? (2 min)

• ... when the action is more important or interesting than the person who does the action.
  
  

> "England makes the best computers." (active)
Q: What is the action? vs. Who does the action?
Q: What (or who) do they [action]?

The passive: why do we use it (2/2)? (2 min)

• ... the person who does the action is not known or not important.
• ... what is more important than who.

> "They grow coffee in Brazil." (active)
Q: What is the action? vs. Who does the action?
Q: What (or who) do they [action]?

The passive: using an agent (2 min)

• If you want to say who does the action, you use an agent
  (= by + person)
  > This house was built by my grandfather.
• It's not always necessary to add this, but sometimes it is!

The passive: present vs past (2 min)

"The house was built in 1950."
Q: What is the subject of the sentence?

"The house was built in 1950 (by him)."

Q: Do we know who built it?

1. Yes
2. No

"The house was built in 1950 (by him)."

Q: Is it important for us to know who built it?

1. Yes
2. No

"The house was built in 1950 (by him)."

Q: What do we find out from the sentence?

1. Information about the subject
2. Information about the date

The passive: your turn! (2 min)

• Do the LessonUp exercises to turn the active sentences into passive sentences.
  
  You may use the explanation from Grammar Focus SB p. 156.

Active: Apple sells thousands of iPhones every day.

Passive:

Active: I don't make lunch on Sundays.

Passive:

Active: J.K. Rowling didn't write Harry Potter for adults.

Passive:

Active: Coppola made three Godfather films.

Passive:

The passive: SB exercises (30 min)

• Do the Grammar Focus exercises on SB p. 156.
• Continue with SB exercise 3c and 4 on p. 79.

Review together with the teacher after 20 minutes.

Now, I can use the passive (present and past simple) correctly

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Speaking (20 min)

• Do exercise 5 on SB p. 79

Homework

WB exercises 1 + 2 on p. 46