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Listening & Speaking
Ex.9 p.67
Aim: to listen and make notes
• Play the recording and ask Ss to make notes and then ask ss to use their notes to present da Vinci to the class.
• Have the class perform peer assessments and give feedback for Ss to use to improve their performance.
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Suggested Answer Key
Leonardo da Vinci was a man of many talents who mastered a huge variety of subjects. Let’s take a look at some of those areas where da Vinci excelled.
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Feedback:
“The praise” method
“Good job!
Well done!”
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Whiteboard
PPT (With words)
Pupils Book
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Ending the lesson
5 minutes
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Writing & Speaking
Ex.10 p.67
Aim: to prepare a presentation on another scientist with many talents
• Give Ss time to research online and collect information about another scientist with many talents and make notes under the headings provided. Then give them time to prepare a presentation.
• Ask Ss to give their presentations to the class.
• Assign the task as HW and ask Ss to give their presentations in the next lesson.
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Suggested Answer Key
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin was born on 17th January 1706 in Boston, in the USA. He had 16 siblings and was the 15th child in a poor family.
Franklin started to read at a very young age, but, despite doing well in school, left at age 10 to help out in his father’s candle and soap making business. Other than this, he had no formal education.
Franklin achieved many things throughout his life. His work in science is based in electricity. Despite risking his life during his experiments, Franklin was determined to continue his research. He invented the lightning rod and noted lots of phenomena surrounding electricity, even creating new words such as ‘battery’, ‘charge’ and ‘conductor’. Franklin was also an excellent writer and began writing pieces that were featured in a newspaper from the age of 12. He eventually opened his own print shop and featured proverbs, witty writing and poetry in his work. He later went on to print money. In addition to doing all of this, Franklin enjoyed inventing new things. He is known for the Franklin stove, bifocal lenses, the armonica, the rocking chair and even the American penny. In fact, the armonica, his musical instrument, was so successful that even Beethoven composed a piece to be played on it! Finally, Franklin was also a well-known political figure. He helped draw up the American Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution and the Treaty of Paris.
I think we can all agree that Benjamin Franklin was a man with many talents whose contributions have made a huge impact on the world. During his life his political work helped to end a war and his inventions still play a valuable part in today’s world.
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