Investigating skills aims

Lesson/topic 1	INVESTIGATING SKILLS
Aims	Cognitive: expanding the use of English while discussing topics such as motivation and inspiration Affective: to motivate the students: -to take the responsibility for the group performance -to share own opinions and to listen to others respecting their views Performance: to develop the students’ speaking, reading, listening and writing skills
Objectives	To let the students to practice in Speaking on motivation vs inspiration (Comparison chart) Listening to the recording T.4. Writing a possible title of a research paper and its abstract
Lesson plan	Warm-up activities- 5-10min: Activity 1. For developing students’ speaking abilities and merging them into language environment students walk around the class and let them try to give as many words as possible on the topic related. Brainstorming words and notions. Ex.1. Group work. PRE-LISTENING/ SPEAKING:- 25min Activity 2-3 Walk around the class and give the students comprehension questions which can lead them into active discussion. Ex. 2. Sharing their findings. Discussion Activity 4. Ex. 3. Comparison chart (Fill-in-the-gaps task) Ex. 4. (Matching task) introducing new vocabulary LISTENING– 20min Activity 5. Ex. 5. Listening. True-false task 10min GRAMMAR: - 15 min. Activity 7. Explaining “Had better” and “Need” usage, doing Ex. 6. (complete the sentences) SUMMARY/HOMEWORK/ WRITING: 10min Activity 8. Home task. Ask the students to write a research paper’s title and abstract. Assess the students’ participation in the lesson and summarize the subject of the lesson
Teaching methodology	Methods and technology: Categorizing Matching K-W-L The Venn diagram Insert technique Form Pair and group work Resources: Handouts, visual aids Teaching techniques: Facilitation Elicitation Presentation Informal assessment: Questioning and summarizing Assessment: 3 points
Outcomes	By the end of the lesson the students will be able to communicate spontaneously, to sustain their opinions, use a limited number of linking expressions to mark clearly the relationship between their ideas, having a good grammar control respond appropriately to the questions related to motivation and inspiration ; to categorize and organize information for presentation, to make a general statement concerning motivation and inspiration
Reflection

INVESTIGATING SKILLS

1. Match the words and their definitions.

1. Hypothesis	a) Make a judgment based on criteria; determine the value of
2. Requisite	b) Make clear or plain
3. Clarify	c) Something which is probably true, though it cannot be proved
4. Incessantly	d) Express, concisely, the relevant details
5. Justify	e) Putting together various elements to make a whole
6. Constantly	f) Continuously, not stopping
7. Investigate	g) Support an argument or conclusion
8. Consistently	h) All the time
9. Summarize	i) A belief that something is true
10. Assumption	j) Necessary
11. Synthesize	k) Plan, inquire into and draw conclusions about
12. Evaluate	1) Always at the same level

2 (T2) Listen to the tape and answer the following

questions
1. What does a lecturer do?

2. What does a lecturer expect from students?

3. Which scientists is the lecturer going to mention

in the speech?

4. How does lecturer describe the scientists?
3 Match the beginnings of the sentences 1-6

and their endings a-f.

1. Beruni spoke 2. Farobi was fluent in 3. Ttie pursuit of knowledge 4. L'lughbck became a governor 5. E\^en being the leader of the country 6. Scientists of ancient times were very skillful and knowledgeable

a. is a duty of every man and woman b. he didn't miss a chance to deliver lectures c. seventy languages d. in different spheres e. and understood more than ten languages f. in 1409 at the age of 15, he started to develop science and education

4. Work in groups. Answer the following

Questions
1. What made medieval scientists so productive in

different spheres and have wide outlook?

2. What should investigators do in each step of their

research?

5. Read the text and decide what the following

numbers stand for.
1. 1876

2. 1847

3. 1,093

4. 9000

5. 1882

6. 1928

Thomas Edison is considered to be one of history’s most well-known inventors, whose contributions to the modern era transformed the lives of people all over the world. He is the one who is the author of creations like electric light bulb, typewriter, electric pen, phonograph, motion picture camera and alkaline storage battery — to the talking doll. Moreover, in 1876 he built his famous laboratory in Menta Park, New Jersey to conduct experimentations. Edison and his wife Mary had a house which was near his work place, Edison often became so involved in his work that he stayed overnight in the lab as he considered “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration.”The father of the creations of XIX century was born in Milan, Ohio on February 11, 1847. He attended a formal school for only a short time when he was seven years old. His mother was a tutor and taught him to be fond of reading. Love for experimenting and mechanical things developed when Edison received his first chemistry set. Edison was mostly deaf. He lost most of his hearing at the age of twelve when a conductor pulled him onto a train by his ears. But, he did not let his disability

stop his love of learning. Creating experiments was Thomas Edison’s passion. Astonishingly, in all he held 1.093 patents for his inventions.It took him 9,000 experiments to perfect the light bulb. He believed that people's greatest weakness lies in giving up and the most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.He never quit. After inventing a lighting bulb in September 4, 1882, he kept working on the idea of lightening the world, as he believed there is always a way to do the work better and he tried to find it. As a result, Edison’s Pearl Street Station delivered power to a one square mile section of Manhattan for the first time Edison continued to work on several projects and experiments till the end of his life. In 1928, hewas awarded with the Congressional Gold Medal, presented to him at the Edison Laboratory.

6. Read the statements and decide whether the statements are true, false or not given

1. Edison created a television ___

2. Edison thought that a person wouldn't achieve

anything until he worked enough.

3. Edison couldn’t hear at all.

4. He usually broke down the investigation if he

confronted with challenges.

5. He is the one due to whom we have chandeliers

(lustra) full of lighting bulbs. ___

6. His last words were “it is beautiful over there” __