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LESSON PLAN

School's name: Patrice Lumumba Secondary School

Grade: Ten

Stream: Night

Number of Students: Fifty

Date: 9/23/2013

Lesson number: 22

Length of the lesson 45’

Level: elementary.

Aims: by the end of the lesson students should be able to know the differences between Innovation, invention and discovery and how

to use why questions in other to understand these differences.

Teaching Aids: black board, hand-outs, desks, chalks and some additional materials

Topic: Innovation, invention and discovery

Teacher’s name: Velasco Carneiro Francisco & Darmin Domingo

Unit: 4

Material to be used: student's book page 55, booklet, student look and other resources.

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Anticipated problems: students might have difficulty to use why questions to make different questions related to: innovation;

invention and discovery within technology.

Solution: teacher gives the copy of pages so that students can read in advance and draw preliminaries verdicts about topic.

Solution: teacher gives some examples of innovation; invention and discovery within technology to help them.

Assumption: I am sure that the students know something about “why “questions and how to address question in different aspects

concerning with technology and other issues and some differences between Innovation, invention and discovery too.

Aprox

Time

Stages Activities

Teacher and students

Aims Teacher and students

interaction

10’ Warm up\

revision

I will ask to the students about

their disposition and what they

talked in previous lesson after that

I will write some words that the

students learned in the previous

lesson like: Gadget; High tech;

Broad band; Innovative;

Manufacture; Invention;

Technology; Hi fi; Optic fibre;

Innovation; Invent. Then I will

read and students will be

To give an overview of what the

students are going to study and be ready

for the present lesson and remember

what is going to be focused in the

lesson.

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repeating.

Students give their answers.

10 ‘ presentation I will present the topic to be

discussed and explain about the

importance of the topic for

students and how many lesson it

will take.

The students must guess by the context

how the topic will be helpful for

students.

20’ practise I will ask the students to open the

book in page 55 and read silently

the text after that I will ask

individual student to stand up and

read the text. Then the students

will read and make questions

about the difference between

“Innovation, invention and

discovery” if possible. I will ask

them to identify a paragraph

within the text that shows an

example of innovation, invention

and discovery. In pairs or in

groups of seven students. I will

From this lesson, students might

understand differences between

innovation, invention and discovery and

how to use within the technology.

I will explain about

innovation, invention

and discovery within

the technology and also

differences among

them using why

questions.

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ask them to address some

questions through text using why

questions and after that they will

answer too. They will receive a

task to do at home in other to

practice and provide the title of

the text.

5’ consolidation From the exercise that they do,

result will show if they get

differences between innovation,

invention and discovery within

technology.

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Text of page 55, students book, grade 10

In Mozambique about 87% of farmers are subsistence farmers who cultivate their lands with traditional tools. They rely on the rains

and if these don’t come, no crops are sown. However, technology has proved efficient in minimizing the suffering of farmers who

choose to use it.

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Irrigation sprinklers can be used on farms, golf courses, residential yards, and other places to water crops, lawns, gardens or other

plants in the event of drought. Most importantly, sprinkler irrigation has helped most undeveloped communities increase their

production. A clear example is the sugar cane industry in Mozambique and South Africa.

Poor rains and droughts no longer stop then from producing cane for their sugar mills.

Questions

1. What is the importance of technology?

2. The words “Innovation, invention and discovery” have different meaning.

a) Pprovide the meaning of each word giving at least one example from the text in each definition.

b) Tell about the pros and cons of technology in the field of agriculture. Provide some examples.

3. Address some question to the text so that we can discuss in next lesson

a) Give title to the text.