Theme: Writing a reference

Theme: Writing a reference

Aims:

Educational aims:

• to explain to students how to write a reference

• to explain how to use the passive voice

Cultural aims:

• To promote expansion of the general outlook of students in writing reference

• To stimulate activity of pupils by the appeal to additional sources of information.

Practical aims:

• Improvement of students’ listening skills

• To encourage them working in pairs and in small groups

Developing aims:

• To develop students’ speaking, writing andreading skills

• To enlarge their active vocabulary with new words

Equipment:

1. Computer.

2. Multimedia projector.

3. Hand-outs with tasks.

1. The beginning of the lesson.

Greeting (5 min)

Good morning students. What day is it today? What date is it today? What season is it now? Who can tell me about the weather? Who is on duty today? Who is absent today?

Today our theme is “Writing a reference.” and grammar rule is “Passive voice”. Today we are going to learn what is reference, why do we need it? How we can write a reference?

Warm up: (10 min)

Look at the picture and name the sources of references

Answers: a) book textbook; b) magazines; c) internet web sites.

Good job dears. Now you should discuss the following questions with each other.

• What is the reference/ bibliography?

• Why do we need it?

• What kind of information should we include in our reference?

Pre-listening (15min)

Aim: Teaching new vocabulary

You should work in pairs and match the columns. Now you should read and match the words with their definitions:

Answers: 1-e, 2-c, 3-g, 4-a, 5-l, 6-h, 7-d, 8-b, 9-f,

Now you should try to translate these new words into your native language.

While listening (20 min)

Aim: listening for specific information

You are going to listen to a conversation between a student and a librarian. You should listen to a conversation and complete the table:

TAPE SCRIPT

ANSWERS:

Well done my students. You should try to fill in the gaps with the words from vocabulary.

Now check your answers:

1. Reference 5. A magazine

1. Format 6. Alphabetical order

2. Author 7. URL

3. Publisher

Post-listening (10 min)

Aim: organizing group work, summarizing

I’ll divide you into small groups. You should fill the format of reference list of sources. You should put the following citations in order.

1. Book

1. Journal and newspaper

Answer:

1. Book

1. Journal and newspapers

Grammar(15 min)

Aim: practicing and revising Passives

I have some questions for you. What is Passive voice? Can you tell me the rule?

And look through the grammar spot.

Why we use the Passive?

1. When the agent of the action is unknown:

My wallet was stolen last night.

1. When the agent is unimportant:

The new students’ centrewas completed last week.

1. When the agent of the action is obvious from the context

I was born in March of 55. (Everyone knows that it was my mother bore me then)

1. To emphasize the recipient of the action:

Only Jane was injured in the accident; the rest of the passengers were unhurt.

1. To connect ideas in different clauses more clearly:

The music was being played too loud by the students, who were finally asked to turn it down.

1. To make generic statements, announcements, and explanations:

Something should be done about the traffic jams in this town.

Let’s do exercise on the passive voice.

Use the verbs in brackets in an appropriate form.

1. Reference _________(use) to point out the list of literature in diploma work.

2. The name of the author _________ (mention) first in bibliography format.

3. The format of the reference __________ (define) before writing it.

4. The web sites ___________ (mention) in Jahongir’s project work he did last night.

5. Oh, sorry, pages of the books __________ (point out) here, I forgot it completely.

6. Hey, ______ the research ________ (do) on the appropriate literature for your work when you started to organize it?

7. I want to ask for your advice, _________ the reference________(organize) in appropriate way or not.

ANSWERS:

1. Is used 5. Are pointed

2. Is mentioned 6. Was done

3. Is defined 7. Is organized

4. Are mentioned

Now dears you should try to make sentences in the Passive voice using the words in the box.

Conclusion of the lesson (5min)

Well job my dear students. Now listen your marks and write your homework.

Your homework is ex 8 on page. Read for the specific information and choose the best answer to the questions.

Marking list: