Level: Intermediate

Class duration: 90 minutes

Unit title: Modern life

Class goals: Point out to all the advantages of using a dictionary, differentiate between
different usages of tenses to portray present actions, raise awareness of stative verbs,
practicing reading, listening and speaking through various activities.
Time:

Type of activity:

Aim:

Description of
tasks:

Interaction

Material
needed:

10 min

Warm-up
activity
+
Dictionary
activity

Creating
pleasant
working
atmosphere
and
teaching
pupils how
to use the
dictionary;

Each student is
asked to randomly
open a page in the
dictionary, and
then each of them
is given a different
assignment:
1. to find one
countable and one
uncountable noun
2. to find a word
which can be both
verb and noun, or
noun and adjective
3. to find a word
which has BrE and
AE pronunciation

Pair work
or groups
of three;

1 or more
English
monolingual
dictionaries

2 min

Pre-reading
activity

Introducing
the reading
activity in
order to
make them
guess what
might be
happening
in the text
that they
are going to
read.

Ask pupils to look

at the photos,
discuss the
surroundings,
people, gestures
and anticipate
what is going on.

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8 min

Reading activity

Practice
reading
skills
which will
be checked
by asking
students to
answer the
questions
connected
to the text;

As the students to
read the text on
their own and then
check
understanding by
asking pupils the
questions from
exercise 1.

Individual
work and
T-S
communic
ation

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10-15
min

Grammar
activity

Raising
awareness
of different
tenses
being used
for
expressing
present;
pointing
out the
stative
verbs;

Ask students to
look into the text
to find examples
of different tenses
being used for
representing
present. Elicit the
differences
between tenses.

Pair work
and Ss- T
communic
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5-10
min

Speaking
activity

Bringing
text and the
unit closer
to the
pupils by
introducing
their
personal
experience;

Asking pupils to
talk about a recent
event, such as
those from
exercise 4.

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5 min

Pre-reading
activity

Eliciting
pupils
opinions
concerning
modern
way of life
using the
photos
connecting
to the text;

Ask student to
look at the photos
connected with the
2nd text to get
ideas to talk about
their opinions
about the modern
life.

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10 min

Reading activity

5 min

Vocabulary
activity

5 min

Speaking
activity

Practicing
skimming
skills
(reading
text to get
the general
idea);
Enriching
pupils
vocabulary
by
explaining
and
learning
unfamiliar
words;
Practicing
asking
questions;

Listening
activity

Practicing
listening
skills;

Ask pupils to
listen to the audio
and then pay
attention to the
exercise 2.b.

Getting to
know with
the phrases
useful for
argument
-ative
discussions
(e.g. That
sounds + ..)

Point out to the

pupils that there
are some useful
phrases for polite
(dis)agreeing and
commenting on
other peoples
ideas, opinions or
arguments.

Practicing
reading and
speaking
skills;

Ask students to fill

in the
questionnaire and
then to exchange a

5-10
min

5 min

Vocabulary
activity

10 min

Reading
+
Speaking
activity

Ask students to
read the text
quickly to get the
general idea and
ask them questions
to check the
understanding
Ask students to
look at the text
once again to
check if there is
any unfamiliar
vocabulary and
explain it.
Pupils are asked to
create a short
conversation
asking questions
to each other,
imagining that
they have met for
the first time.

Individual
work
and
T-Ss
Ss-T

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T-Ss
Ss-T

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Pair work

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Individual
work

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T-Ss

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Individual
and pair
work

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book with a
partner to predict
the possible job.
Depending on the
chosen job,
students can add a
few qualities
appropriate for the
job in question
from the table A.
5 min

GrammarVocabulary
Speaking
activity

Practicing
the usage
of adverbs
of
frequency

Ask students to
choose one of the
photos and to
make a sentence
using the action
shown on the
picture and an
adverb of
frequency.

Ss-class

Additional
photos

5 min

Summarizing
+
assigning
homework

Rounding
up the
lesson;

Summarize what
has been done
during the class
and ask pupils to
do 2 exercises
from page 9
(Witnessing the
event and Gaped
text) to revise the
grammar done in
class.

T-Ss
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