Цели урока:

практические: развитие умений аудирования, чтения с извлечением частичной и полной информации, речевых компетенций;

развивающие: развитие мышления, внимания, памяти, любознательности;

образовательные: расширение кругозора, формирование коммуникативной компетенции;

воспитательные: формирование мотивации к изучению английского языка, уважения к чужому мнению.

WARM-UPS

1. REMOTE CONTROL: Walk around the class and talk to other students about remote control. Change partners and share your findings often.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most interesting and which are most boring.

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. HANDY: What new inventions would be handy? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners and share what you wrote. Change and share again.

4. GADGET: Students A strongly believe the remote control is one of the best gadgets ever invented; Students B strongly believe it isn't.  Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

5. INVENTIONS: What are the best modern-day inventions?  Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the best at the top. Change partners and share your rankings again.

6. INVENTOR: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word 'inventor'. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

BEFORE READING

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if  a-h  below are true (T) or false (F).

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

3. PHRASE MATCH:  (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

WHILE READING

GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text.

AFTER READING / LISTENING

ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

• Share your questions with other classmates / groups.
• Ask your partner / group your questions.

LANGUAGE – MULTIPLE CHOICE

The inventor of the television remote control has (1) ____ away at the age of 96. The Associated Press news agency reported that Eugene J. Polley died of natural  (2) ____ on Sunday. His creation is one of today's most (3) ____ used and ubiquitous devices. Mr Polley worked as an engineer for a company called Zenith, now part of Korea's LG Electronics. He introduced his gun-(4) ____ remote control, called the Flash-Matic, in 1955. It was one of 18 (5) ____ he owned. The Flash-Matic used light to turn the TV on and off, adjust the volume and change channels. His invention was followed (6) ____ five years later by fellow Zenith engineer Robert Adler, who used ultrasound instead of light. Today's remote controls use infrared light.

Polley worked for Zenith for 47 years and held some top technology posts. In 1997, the USA's National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honoured him by      (7) ____ him with an Emmy Award for 'Pioneering Development of Wireless Remote Controls for Consumer Television.' Polley's invention is something we all (8) ____ for granted nowadays. Generations of people have grown up not (9) ____ that before remote controls, (10) ____ actually had to leave the sofa and push a button or turn a dial to change their TV settings. Today we use remotes for everything from adjusting the brightness of lights to changing songs on (11) ____ iPods to opening the garage door from 30 metres. Life would be quite different without this (12) ____ gadget.

Put the correct words from the table below in the above article.

WRITING

Write about remote control for 10 minutes. Correct your partner's paper.

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HOMEWORK

REMOTE CONTROL: Make a poster about how remote controls are used in our life. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?

INVENTION: Write a magazine article about the remote control. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against it.

ANSWERS

The inventor of the television remote control has passed away at the age of 96. The Associated Press news agency reported that Eugene J. Polley died of natural causes on Sunday. His creation is one of today's most commonly used and ubiquitous devices. Mr Polley worked as an engineer for a company called Zenith, now part of Korea's LG Electronics. He introduced his gun-shaped remote control, called the Flash-Matic, in 1955. It was one of 18 patents he owned. The Flash-Matic used light to turn the TV on and off, adjust the volume and change channels. His invention was followed up five years later by fellow Zenith engineer Robert Adler, who used ultrasound instead of light. Today's remote controls use infrared light.

Polley worked for Zenith for 47 years and held some top technology posts. In 1997, the USA's National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honoured him by awarding him with an Emmy Award for 'Pioneering Development of Wireless Remote Controls for Consumer Television.' Polley's invention is something we all take for granted nowadays. Generations of people have grown up not knowing that efore remote controls, people actually had to leave the sofa and push a button or turn a dial to change their TV settings. Today we use remotes for everything from adjusting the brightness of lights to changing songs on our iPods to opening the garage door from 30 metres. Life would be quite different without this handy gadget.

TRUE / FALSE:

SYNONYM MATCH:

PHRASE MATCH:

LANGUAGE WORK