Introduction
The students are 15 years old (10th grade, high school) and their level is pre- intermediate.
Hi guys, today we're going to talk about Inventions with using the past tense we have learnt in previous lesson.
- Which invention do you find most important in the history?
- Why is it important for you?
Task
Warm-up:
Task 1: Students are given ten inventions and wanted to make a chronological order.
After chronological order they are asked to predict the date of the inventions.
Task 2: Students are expected to prepare poster about inventions and inventors.
Process
Task 1:
Now we're going to do activity, before starting I want you to be groups of 4.
Please look at the words on the list for a second.
You're going to work with your group partners, I want you to put these inventions in chronological order.
After chronological order I want you to do brainstorming and try to guess when these products were invented. after you finish we will decide the group that predicts the date closest. Whichever group has made the best prediction will win the game :)
- Electric Light
- Telephone
- Plane
- Printing Press
- Radio
- Television
- Computer
- Automobile
- Wheel
- Internet
Task 2: I want you to make a poster about inventors. You can use the inventions which we talked about in previous activity. Remember that all the inventions was done in the past so don't forget to prepare your poster with using Past Tense.
Here are several links as an example. Apart from these links you can make any inventor you want.
https://www.biography.com/inventor/thomas-edison
https://www.biography.com/scientist/albert-einstein?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-biography
https://www.biography.com/business-figure/bill-gates?li_source=LI&li_medium=m2m-rcw-biography
https://www.biography.com/inventor/alexander-graham-bell
Your poster should contain at least the answers to these four questions:
When did he/she born?
when did he/she died?
When did he/she invented .....?
which subjects did he/she studied?
Evaluation
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Conclusion
When you finish preparing, each group will present their poster and give feedback to each other's poster.
Please check the rubric for the evaluation,you're going to evaluate your friends poster.
At the end the best poster will be chosen by voting.
Credits
Teacher Page
This lesson is about inventions and inventors.
This webquest is for 10th grade high school students. ( their level is pre-intermediate)
At the end of the lesson students will:
- Develop their skimming and scanning skills.
- use their creativity while preparing poster
- Develop group working
- Express their thoughts with their friends.