Lesson plan topic: Inventions Grammar: Revision Level

Time: 25 minutes.
Materials: copies of the text from the book as handouts
Mode of interaction: group work and pair work
Procedure: Do this in open class. Nominate different Ss to share their experiences with the class.Ss look at the photos. Ask: Do you know this man
/the Andes? Elicit Ss' answers but don 't confirm details yet. Give Ss 2-3 mins to read the information and answer the questions. Elicit answers and give more information about Palin from the Culture notes if appropriate. Then ask further comprehension questions, e.g. How far did Michael Palin travel? (50,000 miles) How long did it take? (ten months) What did he learn? (how to cook eggs in a volcano and how to make music with horses' bones) Where does he travel in this episode? (across the Andes from Chile to Bolivia)

Activity -2

Objectives: to practise their listening in order to develop skills for drill the new language
Time: 20 minutes
Material: handout
Mode of interaction: pair work
Procedure: Put Ss in pairs: one student facing the screen and the other facing away from it. Play the DVD. Both Ss do the exercise and then compare their answers. Ss then swap places. They watch the DVD again and compare their answers . Check them in feedback. Give Ss 3-4 mins to check the words / phrases they don't know in their dictionaries. They work alone / in pairs. Check their answers in feedback and drill the new language. Ss watch the DVD and number the sentences. Play it again to check/elicit Ss' answers (in bold in the DVD script below). Then ask: Why was it the journey of a lifetime / the journey of everyone'sdreams? Give them 2-3 mins to discuss their answers in pairs or as awhole class.