Passives: Bad Weather And Natural Disasters Lesson Plan for 12th Grade Example Students

Topic: bad weather and natural disasters

Title: passives: bad weather and natural disasters

Objectives/outcomes:

• Students will be able to use the passive form in present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, be going to, will, and can.
• Students will be able to understand and express their opinion on bad weather and natural disasters.

Materials:

• Videos on bad weather and natural disasters
• Copies of the text-based lesson
• Handouts on passive form

Warm-up

• Ask students to share their experience with bad weather and natural disasters. What kinds of bad weather and natural disasters have they experienced? What happened? How did they deal with it?
• Write down the students’ answers on the board.
• Discuss and explore the different types of bad weather and natural disasters.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the topic of the lesson: bad weather and natural disasters.
• Explain the function of passive verbs in English and give examples.
• Demonstrate how to use the passive grammar in present simple, present continuous, present perfect, past simple, be going to, will, and can.
• Model and have students practice using the passive grammar in different real-life situations.

Guided Practice

• Divide students into groups and give each group a scenario with a passive verb.
• Have students work together to create a sentence using the passive grammar in the given scenario.
• Have students share their sentences with the class and check for accuracy.

Independent Practice

• Have students work on a project-based activity where they have to research a natural disaster, such as a tornado or earthquake, and write a sentence using the passive grammar to describe the disaster.
• Have students present their sentences to the class and explain their choices for using the passive grammar.

Closure

• Review the passive grammar points from the lesson and have students say when they would use each one. -Ask students to share something they learned about the passive grammar during the lesson.

Assessment

• Observe students during independent practice and give feedback on their use of the passive grammar. -Evaluate students' participation in the group activity. -Ask students to write a paragraph using one of the passive grammar points from the lesson.