Разработка урока по теме "Кто хочет стать миллионером/ Who wants to be a millionaire"

Couple Finds $1.8 Million Lottery Ticket 

Warm up

• Have you ever bought a lottery ticket?

• Have you ever won a large sum of money?

• Are you a lucky person?

Task 1 - Language

Read the sentences and match the underlined word/expression with the definition below:

1-b, 2-f, 3-h, 4-d, 5-e, 6-g, 7-a, 8-c.

Task 2: Reading

Read the article aloud to your teacher. Stop at the end of each paragraph for pronunciation feedback:

Task 3: Comprehension

1. What did the couple find?

2. How did they come across it? 

3. Why does the article state that they discovered the ticket “in the nick of time”? (Почему в статье говорится, что они обнаружили билет “в самый последний момент”?)

4. How much money did they win?

5. What are they going to do with the money?

1. A 5-month-old lottery ticket.  

2. They were cleaning up their house before guests arrived for Thanksgiving and found the ticket on the nightstand.

3. The prize would have expired 2 weeks later.

4. $1.8 million.

5. They are going to put it in the bank and save the money for their retirement.

Task 4: Paraphrase

Read the extract from the article below:

Possible suggestions:

• A couple - A husband and wife

• Sprucing up - Doing up/renovating/improving the appearance

• House - Home

• Earlier this week - At the beginning of the week

• Came across - Found/discovered

• Five-month-old Louisiana Lotto ticket - A Louisiana Lotto ticket from 5 months ago.

• Taking up space - occupying space

• Nightstand - Bedside table

• It turned out to be worth - It had a value of 

Task 5: Summarise

Read the article again and write a three to four sentence summary. A summary should be short and clear and should describe the main points in your own words.

1/ Answers will vary.

Grammar Review

Task 6: Speaking

Answer the questions and give your opinion using the second conditional.

1. If you had guests coming to stay with you for the holidays, would you tidy up your house? Why or why not?

2. If you came across an old lottery ticket, would you check the numbers with the lottery website? Why or why not?

3. If you received a windfall of $1.8 million, what would you do with the money? Answers will vary.

Task 7: Discussion

1. What does the expression “Life is like a lottery” mean? Do you agree or disagree?

2. In your opinion, is the lottery a form of gambling?

3. Is winning the lottery a blessing or a curse? 1/ Answers will vary.