Soufi A/Hafid Secondary School.

Kais

K. Benleulmi

Unit 06 : No Man is an Island

Time Allotted : 6 hours

Rubric: Discovering the language

Lesson contents:
Lexical:
- Vocabulary relevant to disasters.
- Reporting verbs.

Grammatical:
- Reported speech with the present perfect and past simple .
Phonological :
- Prnunciation of the final ed- Silent letters .

Aims :
Time

To elicit information from a report .

To practise / recycle the language forms useful in a report .
To transfer information from a pie chart into a written report ..
To work out vocabulary items in suitable contexts .

T tasks and lessons steps

Lesson One :
Step One : Think it over
( Brain storming )
Aim : To introduce the topic
and some vocabulary items
related to disasters .

Methodology
- What does the picture represent?
- What does the map represent?
- What is there on this map?
- When was the photo taken? Why?
- They flashed news on TV whenever
there was something new.

Learners' tasks
Flood.
A map of Algeria.
A sign of an
earthquake.
On November 10th, 01.
To use theme in their
reports.

- What do people in other places do ?

How ? They donate.
-

They help .
They give money ,
blood , food , clothes

They are worried .

They think that these
disasters might happen
again/they might be the
victims next time .
Pps do .

- What about people affected in these

kinds of disasters ? Why ? .

Step two : Discovering the

language .
Before you read .
Act 1:
Aim : to make the learners
know the symbols and their
significance.
Picture page 120 .

- T asks Pps to read the words in the

green column to master the
pronunciation of the final ed
-.

They may use their

native language .
Others may say a
- T asks the first question :
- What does the first symbol represent ? crescent .
It is a cross .
.
Pps may give different
- Yes , it is a Red Crescent .
answers .
- What does the second symbol
Pps listen and take
represent ?
notes
- Yes , it is a Red Cross .

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They help people in

cases of natural
disasters .
Some Pps say : yes ,
others say : no , they
are volunteers .
- In what situations in people's lives do Whenever people need
help in cases of natural
they operate ? .
disasters .
- Which of the duties below do they for Pps listen and choose .
fulfill ? .
Fund raising .
1. Fund raising
Collecting food aids
2. Collecting food aids .
3. Preventing man made disasters Helping with medical
care .
Providing assistance in
4. Cleaning affected areas .
emergency situations .
5. Helping with medical care .
6. Providing assistance in
emergency situation .

- What is their task in common ?

- Do people working in these charities
get paid ? .

Lesson Two :
As you read
Act 2 :
Aim : to give the learners a
reason for a careful reading .

Read the report and answer the

following questions .
1. What is the report about ? .
2. In which paragraph does the
author speak about the
findings / results , and in which
one does he give the
interpretation ?
3. Why does the reporter use
interestingly in the second
paragraph? .
4. Does the report confirm the
older generations worry about
society or not ? Why ? .
Class discussion :
Ts reading :
Collective correction on BB .
1. The report is about youth
charity.
2. the author writes about the
findings or the results in the
2nd and his interpretation in
the 3rd .
3. Because of the unexpected
results , the author used the
word to show his surprise .
4. No , it doesn't .Because
according to the data 2010
gathered , people ( young ) are
more charitable than their
parents thought.

Pp read the act .

Then read the report .
Pps try to answer on
their ex-copy books .

Give their own answers

Collective correction
on BB .

Writing phase Pps

write down on their
copy books

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After you read

Aim : to get learners elicit the
rule through comparison and
discussion

Lesson Three :
Practice :
Aim: to practise the reported
speech.
Activity one page 122 .

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Read the following examples and

compare
1. Have you ever experienced an
emergency situation ? .
2. Youth 2010 asked the teenagers
if they had ever experienced an
emergency situation .
3. Did you contribute anything to
help ? .
4. youth 2010 reporter asked them
whether they had contributed
anything to help them during
emergency situation .
- What about the tenses ? .
- What about the question mark?
- Then as a rule : what do we
have ? .
- When we report a question ,
changes must happen .
1. We introduce the reporting
verb.
2. We omit the inverted commas .
3. We change the tense of verbs if
the introductory verb is not in
the present .
4. We omit question mark .
5. We change the word order .
6. When we report yes/no
questions , the reporting verb is
followed by if or whether .

The 1st and the 3rd

sentences are direct
speech sentences .
The 2nd and the 4th are
indirect speech stces .
There are differences
between tenses in the
direct questions and the
reported ones .
We use "asked" in the
indirect speech
sentences.
It is called a reporting
verb like: said, told,
informed, announced
We use first the present
perfect then it is turned
into past perfect.
We used in the 3rd
example the simple
past, then turned into
past perfect.
The question make is
omitted in the indirect
speech stces.

Now, let's practise this rule:

Read the interview in the box, then ask * PP read the
instruction, read the
and answer questions: as in the
example then do the
dialogue below: Eg: P: 122.
activity.
* PP ask whenever they
* T. explains the example.
need help.
* T. turns round, checks and helps.
* PP are asked to give
Collective correction on BB.
their answers.
You: What did the interview ask Bill
Gates?
Your partner: He asked him where he
had grown up.
You: And what did he answer?
Your partner: He said that he had
grown up in Seattle, Washington.
You: What did the interviewer ask
him?
Your partner: He asked him where he
had discovered his interest in
Software.

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Your partner: He answered that he had
discovered his interest in Software at the
Private Lakeside school.
You: What did the interviewer ask him?
Your partner: He asked him when had
begun computer programming .
You: And what did he answer?
Your partner: He answered that he had
begun computer programming at the age
of 13.
Your partner: He asked him when he
had entered Harvard University.
Your partner: He said that he had
entered Harvard University in 1973.
Your partner : He asked him whether
he had developed the first computer
there.
Your partner: He answered that he
developed it there.
Your partner: He asked him how long
he had been head of Microsoft.
Your partner: He said that he had been
head of Microsoft for more than 20
years.
Your partner: He asked him why he
had set up Bill Gates Foundation.
Your partner: He answered that he had
been always thoughtful about others.
That's why he had done it.
Your partner: He asked him how much
money he had donated that year.
Your partner: He said that he donated
3.2 million $.
Your partner: He asked him which
charities he had supported so far.
Your partner: He answered that he had
supported organizations working in the
field of Health and Learning.
Your partner: He asked him if his wife
had helped him.
Your partner: He said that she helped
him

Activity two:

*Turn the quotes into reported speech

using the verbs given to you.
*T. explains the instruction.
T. turns round, checks and helps.
T. reminds them of the rule of the
introductory.
*What happens if the introductory verb
is in the simple present or present
perfect?

Remark:
For "you" the same
question are repeated.
We focus only on:" your
partner, "report.

PP. read the instruction

Read the exercise
Do the task

PP. the tense of the verb

do not change when
reporting.

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Collective correction on BB.
a: 1- Albert Einstein doubts whether
present day Americans have become any
happier since their grand parents settled
in the country.
2- Albert Einstein doubted whether
present day Americans had become any
happier since their grand parents had
settled in the country.
b: 1- John Donne writes that no man is
an island.
2- John Donne wrote that no man is an
island.
c: 1- Bertrand Russel says that three
passions had governed his life longing
for love, the search for knowledge and
an unbearable pity for the sufferings of
mankind.
2- Beitrand Russel says that three
passions had governed his life: the
longing for love, the search for
knowledge and an unbearable pity for
the sufferings of mankind.

Lesson four:
Write it wright
Aim:
To transfer a visual form into a
written report.

T. asks PP to use information in the pie

chart and the lay out to write a report
about:
*Why Americans elected Bill Gates
Man of the year 2005.
Use verbs from the yellow box to write
sentences using the given percentages.

T. use these sentences to write your

report starting as follows:
Why was Bill Gates elected the Man of
the year.

PP. listen to the teacher

- Read the instruction
again.
- Study the pie chart.
30% of our informants
believed that because he
sponsored vaccination
campaigns.
25% regarded him as a
self made man .
20% thought that
because he donated
money to improve
learning opportunities.
15% reckoned that he
had made the PC
available for everyone.
10% stated that he wrote
Business @ the speed of
thought which had
helped to solve business
problems.

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Introduction :
Bill Gates was elected Man of the year
2005. we have carried out a public
Opinions survey to find out about the
reasons why he was so elected.
Here are our findings:
30% of our informants.

Lesson five:
Say it loud and clear:
Aim: to learn about silent letters
in contrast with other sounds.

*observe these examples :

knife, know, honest, wring, white,
knock, column, listen, often,
1Say them loudly.
2Contrast them with other
sounds.

PP. observe the

examples.
Read them loudly

Key, look, worried, flower,

a: What are the differences?

PP. (K)in knife is not

pronounced, but (K) in
key is pronounced.
(W) in wring is not
pronounced, and (W) is
pronounced in worried.

Silent letters
*These kinds of letters are called.
Listen to your teacher reading the poem -honest, serving
and the dialogue and cross out the letters -taught, knew
which are not pronounced.
-what why when
-where who
st
1 : the poem
some PP read
*your what
2nd : the dialogue.
one autumn. Column
condemned. Prisoners.
Solemnly marched
Singing hymns
*your what
knights knocked. Knave
knuckles. Knotted
knew. When. Knelt
knees. Knife. Knitted
knikers.
*T. asks pupils to read again slowly.
*Class discussion.
*Correction on BB.

Some pupils read the

poem again.

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Activity 2: p: 124
Find the spelling form of the transcribed
words in the box :
T. gives an example: how do we
transcribe the word : know?.
-Know is the spelling word
-/n
/ is the transcribed form
*what about the letter (K)
*Correction on BB.
Spelling
Listen
report
Famine
Doctor
cupboard

-It is not pronounced.

-it is a silent letter.
PP do the task

Spelling
Writing
Wednesday
Starve
Cut
cute

*Can you give other examples

Lesson six:
Working with words:
Work out reporting verbs in
suitable contexts.
Activity one:

/n

1-Remark: it is a class work (group) (not

a homework)
*T brings at least 5 dictionaries from the
library to be used by pps in checking the
meaning of words :
T. Check the meaning of the verbs in
your dictionary. Then report each of the
quotes using some of them:
T.turns round checks and helps.
a: A thief speaking to a police officer "I
have stolen her bag".
the thief admitted that he had stolen
her bag .
b: A mother speaking to a doctor."
Please, doctor save my son!"
the mother prayed / begged/ the
doctor to save her son.
C: A school girl speaking to her teacher:
"sorry, I am late".
she apologized for being late.
d: a mother speaking to her child:
"Come here".
she ordered him to go there.
e: A boy friend speaking to another boy
friend: "Let's go out for a walk".
He suggested to go out for a walk.

PP thinks of other
examples.
PP. must work in
groups. They make their
groups of 5 pupils at
least.
- Each group looks for a
number of words.
-admit: /
/ allow to
enter, let in. agree that
(s.th) is true.
-beg: ask for (money,
food) ask seriously
and with feeling.
-request: act of politely
asking for sth.
-Report:/
/ give an
account of (sth) heard,
done
-refuse: not give accept
or do (sth).
-pray: speak to God
hope very strongly.
- promise: make a
written or a spoken
statement to do sth.
-persuade: cause (s.b) to
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discussion reasoning
f: A girl friend speaking to an other girl
to convince.
friend: "If I were you, I would consult a - order: command ask
doctor"
for (s.b) to supply sth.
she advised her girl friend to consult a - apologize: say that one
doctor.
is sorry.
g: "The vase is broken. It's your fault".
-threaten: give
she blamed him / her for breaking the warning. /
/.
vase.
h: "You're right. The flowers are really
beautiful".
Leila agreed that the flowers were
really beautiful.
*Class discussion.
*Correction on BB.

Activity two:

Go through the rest of the reporting

verbs in act one. Then get students to
use the remaining verbs.

-blame: consider (s.b/

sth) to be responsible for
(sth).
-agree: have the same
opinion as somebody.
- suggest: /
/
bring an idea into the
mind.
- insist: demand
strongly.
-deny:
-advise:
PP. use the remaining
verbs in full sentences.