Passives

Posted on September 3, 2008
Filed Under grammar, passives, verb tenses |

Presentation : How is milk made?

Materials: Rods; empty milk carton; pictures of countryside (Vocab book); pictures of farm activities

Warmer: Tell Ss to sit back, relax, close eyes . . .”Drive out of Istanbul..no traffic, no buildings, no city . . .”
Ask Ss what they can hear . . . smell . . . .see?

Put Ss into two grps with 2 artists per grp up at the W/B
Give the grps pictures of the countryside to dictate to the artists
Artists listen and re-create picture to W/B
Set time limit . . . grp with best picture is the champion

Look at pictures on W/B to elicit vocab . . . farm / framer / tractor / cow / field / shed

Ask Ss why we have cows . . . for meat and milk

Ask ss how we make milk . . . elicit anything they know

Ask 8 Ss to stand up . . . give each S an A4 size paper with verb on…
Ask other Ss to try & order the 8 Ss standing up

Take the cows to the shed
Milk the cows
Pump the milk to the tanks
Pasteurise & Sterilise
Bottle the milk
Put the bottles on the trucks
Take the milk to Migros
Sell the milk

Point out these are all verbs…quickly drill V#3

As Ss sit down get them to stick the verbs on the W/b in the right order
Leave on the W/B for Ss to refer to if necessary

Sit on floor . . .get all Ss to also sit on floor..no books…no pens..
Set up farm on floor..as you set up ask Q’s to clarify what these are..
Eg: “big green area…what’s this…..field.” “black building near field…shed” “from the shed to the tank…..pipe” “parked outside tank…truck” “big shop in the village….Migros”

Identify Farmer Brown, Mrs Brown and Joe Brown
Place some cows in the field
Ask Ss “Does Famer Brown work on the farm one day or everyday?”
Elicit which tense…present simple

Drill thru the daily routines of the Brown Family using the rods – in the active
Ss can refer to the W/b too
Famer Brown takes the cows to the shed
In the shed, Mrs Brown milks the cows
Then she pumps the milk to the tank
Joe Brown then pasteurises and sterilises the milk
After that he bottles the milk & puts the bottles on to the truck
Finally he takes the milk to Migros and the shop assistant sells the milk

Make sure the Ss are familiar with the process

Give a S an empty milk carton & ask “Who made this milk..Famer Mustafa..Farmer Ahmet…etc..”
Elict “We don’t know..we don’t care..” Ask Ss “Are we interested in the milk or the farmer..are the people important or is the routine of milk important?”

Throw away the members of the Brown family symbollically

Elicit same routine in the passive
Drill each sentence….highlight be and V#3..and pron
Drill thru but keep stopping and backtracking..choral + individual
Finish off with a chain drill

Put Ss into grps..give grps rods..Ss sit and practice milk process

Elicit 1st and 3rd sentence to W/b
Highlight form

Ask Ss to think of other farm activities…”What’s done everyday?”
Elicit feed the animals..collect eggs..clean shed…

Before the lesson put pictures around room of farm activities (Basic English In Usage Exercises – Grammar book)
Put Ss in pairs
Get Ss to walk around the room and write one sentence per picture
Eg: The eggs are collected

If you can’t find pictures, mime activities and elicit verbs on to W/b:
Collect eggs
Clean the shed
Feed the animals
Cut the grass
Water the flowers
Wash the animals

For feedback put Ss into grps of 4….peer check