Lesson Plan

Level: (experimental sciences)

Unit:
Topic:..
Sequence:Read
Lesson:
Learning Objectives:By the end of the lesson, students will be able to express concession
using the different expressions
-Students will be able to form the plural of noun and to differentiate between the cases.
Time Allocation:1 hour.
Target competencies:Interact/ interpret/ Produce
Materials: White board, handouts.

Time Stage Procedure Objectives

Expressing concession:
5mn Preparati
on -the teacher asks students questions that lead to the
sentence: -To pave the way
What is the nature of the Sun? Is it a planet? to the new lesson.
- It is a star.
Can you draw a comparison between the Sun and
other parts of the solar system?
- It contains 99 percent of the mass of the
entire solar system.
 Is the Sun a big star comparing to other stars?
- No, it is a fairly average-sized star.
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Although it contains more than 99 percent of the mass
of the entire solar system, the Sun is a fairly average-
sized star.

-the teacher asks students questions that lead to the

second sentence:
 What is Pluto?
- It is a dwarf planet.
 Was it considered a dwarf planet ?
- No, it was considered a planet.
Do you think that people are aware of its new
designation?
- No, they continue to think that it is a planet.

In spite of the change of its designation, many people

continue to think that Pluto is a regular planet.
 -the teacher writes the two examples on the board
15mn Presentat then she asks students about the type of the
ion sentence. -To introduce the
- Is it a simple sentence? It is complex. new language
- Why? because there are two clauses that are point
combined with a conjunction.
- What does this conjunction express? Concession.
The teacher gives students the handouts, then they
do the task and deduce the rule together.

Activity:
10mn Practice . Join the following sentences using the appropriate To check
expressions of concession. students’
1. Many people believe that the Sun is the hottest understanding
star.
-There are other stars hotter than the Sun.
2. The atmosphere of Mars is mainly constituted of
Carbon Dioxide.
-Scientists believe in the possibility of life on Mars.
3. Some types of bacteria could develop on other
planets.
-The other planets have inhospitable and extreme
conditions of life.
4. A great number of asteroids have been discovered
so far.
-The total mass of asteroids is less than that of the
Earth’s Moon.
5. The planets have a star-like appearance.
-The motion of planets through our sky is much
more complicated.
5. Space is always dark.
-The Sun is in the space.
 Plural of Nouns:
Preparatio Is the Sun the only star in the Milky Way galaxy ? To pave the way
1n - No, The galaxy contains hundreds of billions of to the new
stars. language point
What is the sun made of? Hydrogen and helium
(gases)
- Gases are the major components of the Sun.
Is Pluto a planet?
5 mn - The old hypotheses considered Pluto as a
planet, but the latest discoveries lists it as
one of the dwarf planets

The teacher asks students:

what type of speech are the underlined words?
- They are nouns.
Presentatio
n Are they singular or plural?
- They are plural nouns. To present the
15 mn The teacher helps students to deduce the rules different types of
and to find examples for each category . nouns’ plural
form
In English, countable nouns are made plural.
a-We generally add –s to form the plural of most
nouns.
E.g. planets, systems, stars.
b- We add –es after some nouns ending in –o , and
nouns ending in –s, -x , -ch , -sh.
E.g.volcanoes,classes, boxes, watches, fishes
c- We change the vowels of some nouns to form the
plural.
E.g. galaxies, men, crises, stories.
d- We change the consonant f for the consonant v of
some nouns in the plural.
E.g. wives, ourselves, halves
e-But we don’t change the f ending of some other
nouns.
E.g. roofs, oafs, scuffs.

Activity:
10 mn Put the nouns in brackets in the text below into the
Practice plural. Pay attention to the spelling form.
The (theory).........about the creation of the world To check their
can be divided into two (category)............: religious understanding
and scientific. The first category is constituted of
divine (thesis)............elaborated by (man).........and
 (woman)........... with strong religious (belief)......... .
These man and women are more interested in divine
(mystery)..............than in producing tangible
(fact)....... about the (origin)............of the world and
its evolution. The second category is composed of a
number of (hypothesis)................put forward by
astrophysicists and astronomers.

Prepared by:
- AYA BRAHIMI.