Lesson Plan Grade:10th Aims of the lesson: 1. To develop students’ reading and speaking skills; 2. To revise much\many. A few\a little Materials: audio script, topic about money Stages of the lesson. I. Warm up: speaking. Students discuss the following statements: • To have a lot of money • To have a good job • A modern car • To be healthy • To have many friends • To help people Example: The most important thing for me is to be healthy. II.Listening activity. Before listening. Teacher asks students to predict the topic of the text they are going to listen to (due to the title “The history of money”). Then the teacher explains some new words from the text. While-listening. The history of money. Can you imagine the world without money? It’s quite impossible. Money-they say- makes the world go round. Why is that so? Well, think of all the situations in which you have to pay for the things you buy- like food, clothes, medicine, newspapers, or for the services you get, like a new hairstyle or car repairs. Think of the entertainment you have to pay for- tickets to concerts, sport matches, favourite books, CDs and holidays. You can have it all if you’ve got the money. Money has played an important role in every civilization. It has taken various forms and has changed many times over the centuries. The first form of payment was the exchange of goods. People usually exchanged animal skins and meat, fruit and vegetables, cloth and precious stones. In ancient Egypt they used metal bars which were cut into smaller parts if necessary. In the seventh century BC the first coins appeared. They were usually made of silver or gold and their value depended on the amount of metal in each coin. With time, coins became very popular and many countries produced their own currency. The introduction of paper money-banknotes-in the 17th century was the beginning of banking systems in many European countries. Since then, banks have offered a wide range of services like loans, bank accounts, etc. Today people pay for things in different ways: they pay in cash, by cheque or by credit card. The last one, it seems, is the most convenient form of payment. Many people believe that one day money in the form of coins, banknotes, cheques and magnetic cards will totally disappear and that all buying and selling will be done via the Internet. Follow up activity Decide if the statements true (T) or false (F). 1______The exchange of goods was the first form of payment. 2______Metal bars were first used as a form of payment in ancient Egypt. 3______The first coins appeared in the sixth century BC. 4______The value of the first coins did not depend on the metal content. 5______The banknotes were introduced in the eighteenth century. 6______It is possible that in the future people will buy goods only via computers. II. Reading activity (reading the article) Students read the article “Does a lot of money really make you happy?” Pre-reading task Would you like to be a millionaire? While-reading Students answer the questions. 1. What happened to Mark Larsen 2 years ago? 2. What did he do with the money? 3. What do you think about the story? Find the sentences in the text which contain much\many\a little\a few Name each passage of the text. III.Project work. In groups students work on the project “Is money important for us?” IV.Home task Free writing (write a story about money) V.Evaluation
