Summary
This practical ESL lesson plan is designed for students interested in engineering and manufacturing. It uses a video about car battery production to introduce essential technical vocabulary, such as grids, paste, separators, and electrolyte. Students will practice describing industrial processes through various activities, including reading, matching, and gap-fills. The lesson also includes a clear grammar focus on using the passive voice, a key structure for technical writing and process descriptions.
Activities
Students activate their existing knowledge about manufacturing by discussing general questions about factories, materials, and production processes.
Students learn and practice key technical terms like grid, paste, electrolyte, and formation through a gap-fill reading and a matching exercise.
Students watch a video detailing the car battery manufacturing process and answer comprehension questions to check their understanding of the key steps.
The lesson provides a clear explanation and practice exercises on the passive voice, focusing on its use for describing technical and manufacturing processes.
Students apply their learning by narrating the manufacturing video and writing a detailed step-by-step description of the process, using the new vocabulary and grammar.
Vocabulary focus
This lesson focuses on technical vocabulary used in manufacturing. Key terms include nouns for components like grids, paste, separators, and electrolyte, as well as process names like formation. Students will also learn verbs essential for describing procedures, such as to conduct (electricity), to apply, to seal, and to purify.
Grammar focus
The primary grammar focus is the passive voice (be + past participle). This lesson explains why it is commonly used in technical and scientific contexts to describe processes, emphasizing the action rather than the person performing it. Students practice converting active sentences to passive to describe manufacturing steps.
