"What will life be like in 2050?"

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Stages of the lesson

Time

Course of events

Using modules

1

Prompting

10 min

1. Greeting of the students

2. Warm-up. Brainstorming.

   1. The teacher suggests the students to think during 5 minutes about the topic of the further discussion and write some sentences, expressions on the topic in copybooks.

   2. Students discuss ideas in pairs, then the most interesting in class.

3) After brainstorm students try to formulate the aims of the lesson by their own.

New approaches to teaching and learning

(elements of critical thinking)

2

Presentation

15 min

Activity 1.

Watch a short video about the most amazing places on the planet. (Top 20 the most amazing places, Youtube video). Discuss with the partner your impressions. Discuss in class:

Can these beautiful places be the part of the future? Can we say that they are amazing because they seem unreal like from the film about the future? Why?

Activity 2. Reading, speaking.

Read some predictions about the more immediate future in your books (p.172 ex. III). Which of them might be/will be real in 2050? (pay attention to the difference between might be and will be, which of them expresses more or less degree of possibility).

New approaches to teaching and learning

(The importance of dialogue in classrooms, thing and thick questions)

Using ICT in teaching

3

Use

18 min

Activity 1. Work in groups.

Divide the class into 3-4 small groups as students wish. On the tables there should be posters with some aspects of life in 2050:

The 1^st group - The media, money

The 2^nd group – Shopping, space travel

The 3^rd group – Education, genetic engineering, domestic life

The 4^th group - Robots and computers, medicine, sports.

Students should decide which of them seems to be more attractive (or less attractive) in the future than nowadays and why, and write some comments.

After working in their own groups they quickly change their places and go to poster of another group, study it and add some more ideas. Each group should “visit” all posters returning to their own. Then each group represents what they have in the result.

Then all these posters can be discussed in the class.

At the end of the lesson every student should assess their work during the lesson according to the criteria (Appendix 1).

New approaches to teaching and learning

(The importance of dialogue in classrooms)

Learning to think critically

Assessment for and of learning

4

Reflection/student’s

feedback

3 min

During last 2-3 minutes each student tells to the class about the information that he/she has learned, likes or dislikes about the lesson in general.

New approaches to teaching and learning

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Working during the lesson I …

Grade

Brainstorming

Speaking

exercises

Work in group

Total

1

suggested new ideas

2

took the lead in discussion and suggested ideas

3

analyzed, made conclusions