This document contains a lesson plan for a 9th grade English class with the topic of famous inventors and their inventions. The objectives are to improve students' speaking, reading, vocabulary, and grammar skills. The lesson plan includes warm-up questions about inventions, a reading activity matching inventors to their inventions, a quiz, riddles about inventions to solve, a listening activity about Isaac Newton, exercises to practice the passive voice, and a conclusion where students express their opinions on important inventions and are assigned a homework composition.

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Конспект уроку з англійської мови 9клас
Тема. Відомі винахідники та їхні винаходи. (Famous inventors and their
inventions).
Цілі: вдосконалювати навички усного мовлення, читання, формувати
навички вживання нових лексичних одиниць; розвивати пізнавальні інтереси
учнів, культуру спілкування та мовленнєву реакцію учнів; вдосконалювати
граматичні навички вживання Passive Voice; виховувати зацікавленість у
розширенні своїх знань, а також загальну культуру учнів.
Хід уроку
(Procedure)
I. Warm-up.
1. What do you know about first inventions? (wheel, paper gun…)
2. What do you know about the first computer? (was proposed by Alan Turing, was
created in 1963, occupied a room)
3. Why do you think science is important?
So, today we're going to talk about inventors and their inventions and develop our
speaking. writing and listening skills. First of all, let's practice in learning new
vocabulary. Make up a sentence with the words.
Geology, Chemistry, Botany, Biology.
Example: I would like to know the origin and history of rocks so I'm going to study
geology.
II. Reading.
And now we have some practice in reading.
Read the text below. Match the inventions (A-H) with the passages (1-6).
There are two extra inventions you don't need to use.
A Inventions of Scottish scientists
В This invention helped the police
С Edison's invention projects
D Inventions in electric power
E Innovation by Isaac Merritt Singer
F Invention of the telephone
G The first television
H An important discovery in medicine
INVENTIONS
1) In the 1800s scientists tried to find out about how electricity works. They also
learned how to make electricity with an electrical generator. The best type of a

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generator was invented by Nikola Tesla, an immigrant from Croatia. In the 1890s his
generators began to use the power of Niagara Falls to create cheap electricity. The
inventor who made widest use of electricity was Thomas Edison, hundreds of ways to
use electricity were discovered by him.
2) First a newsboy and then a telegraph operator, Edison wanted to invent practical
things, «Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent», he said. During one five-year
period he took out a new patent almost every month.
His greatest invention was the light bulb (1879). By 1882 some New York City
buildings were glowing with electric light. Gas lights were replaced by electric lighting
so quickly that in 1899 25 million light bulbs were produced at Edison's factory. Edison
is famous for many other inventions. The dictating machine, motion-picture camera, and
phonograph are also developed by Edison.
3) Everybody knows that the telephone was invented by Bell. Bell showed the new
invention in 1876. It was mentioned in New York Tribune: «The telephone is a curious
device that might fairly find place in the magic of the Arabian Tales. Of what use is
such an invention?»
People quickly realized the answer to that question. In 1877 telephone lines
connected Boston and Salem in Massachusetts. By the 1890s many other American
cities were connected by long-distance telephone lines.
4) Although sewing machines had been created before, Singer invented one that was
easy to use. In a time before clothing stores were common, Singer's sewing machine
saved hours of labour for those who made clothes at home. Singer soon had a
prosperous sewing machine company in New York City.
5) The telegram was invented in 1844, but for years, no one thought the invention had
any future. Then in 1853, two criminals, Oliver Martin and Fiddler Dick, tried to escape
by jumping on the London — Slough train. The London police cabled their colleagues
in Slough where the criminals were caught. It started the success of the new technology.
The British police used it so often that they got their own special telegram address:
Handcuffs, London.
6) Penicillin was discovered by bacteriologist Alexander Fleming who worked at St
Mary's Hospital in London in 1928. He found that it killed bacteria. Now it is used to
fight many diseases such as diphtheria, meningitis and pneumonia.
III. Doing quiz.
And now we are going to have a quiz. Be very attentive and try to guess the correct
answer.
Inventors and inventions Quiz
1. Benjamin Franklin, American politician, was an inventor, too. He invented the
lightning rod, studied electricity, discovered the Gulf Stream... What musical instrument
did he invent?
a) clarinet
b) banjo
c) harmonium

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2. What invention is credited to the Russian born American inventor Vladimir Kosma
Zworykin?
a) radio
b) television
c) telegraph
3. This English inventor is known as the «Father of Computing».
a) Steve Jones
b) Philo Farnsworth
c) Chafes Babbage
4. We know a dishwasher well. Whirlpool Corporation produced them from the very
beginning. But can you say who is considered the founder of the first dishwasher?
a) Josephine Cochrane
b) Benjamin Franklin
c) Thomas Alva Edison
5. Which inventor discovered penicillin?
a) Alexander Fleming
b) Michael Faraday
c) Louis Pasteur
6. Who developed the first modern automobile?
a) Henry Ford
b) Robert Fulton
c) Karl Benz
Key: 1 c, 2 b, 3 c, 4 a, 5 a, 6 с
And now I would like to read you some riddles about inventions. Your task is to
guess what they are about.
1. I was born Before Christ
And first was made of sand or water or even shadow.
Now I'm made of different materials.
I'm a very important thing for people.
I'm usually round but I'm not a pizza base.
I tell people something but I don't have a mouth.
I have numbers on me but I'm not a phone.
I have hands but I don't have any fingers.
I have a face but I don't have any eyes.
(Clock)
2. I can consider Archimedes to be my father.
But I first appeared in the 17th century.
I have buttons but I'm not a shirt.
I have doors but I'm not a house.
I go up and down but I'm not an umbrella.
I need at least two stories but I'm not a book of fairytales.
I'm found in tall buildings but I'm not a penthouse.
(Lift I elevator)
3. I was invented in America many centuries ago.
First I was drunk only and I was cold.

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In Europe, I got hot and then became hard.
I'm sometimes dark but I'm not a room with curtains.
I sometimes contain peanut butter but I'm not a sandwich.
I'm sometimes melted but I'm not an ice cube.
I'm sometimes in cookies but I'm not a raisin.
I'm sometimes a bar but I'm not made of metal.
I'm sometimes a chip but I'm not made of potato.
(Chocolate)
4. I'm an ancient invention.
I can be square or round,
French, Venetian, blind, gable or attic.
I still used in the world today.
I allow people to see through walls.
Who am I?
(Window)
IV. Listening.
Listen to the text about Isaac Newton and do the tasks.
(Учні прослуховують текст і виконують післятекстові завдання).
TEXT
Isaac Newton was a scientist, physicist, mathematician and astronomer. He was born
in England, in 1643. His father had died three months before his birth. His mother
remarried and Isaac was left Isaac in the care of his grandparents. As a child Isaac was
mostly alone uncommunicative. He liked to read and made mechanical toys: sundials
and water clocks, mills, models of sail boats. He tried the models could turn but it was
only with the wind. In the age of 12 Isaac started his school. For the rest of his life he
would prefer to work and live alone focused on his writing and his studies. After
graduating from Cambridge Isaac stayed there and spent much of his life at Cambridge.
During his lifetime Newton developed the theory of gravity, the laws of motion which
became the basis for physics; a new type of mathematics called calculus, and made
breakthroughs in the area of optics. Albert Einstein said Isaac Newton was the smartest
person that ever lived. Today he is considered, one of the most influential scientists of
all time.
Continue the sentences:
1. Isaac Newton was a …
2. He was born in …
3. He liked to read and …
4. He started his school at the age of …
5. He spent much time of his life at …
6. «Isaac Newton was the smartest person» said …
Демонстрація учням презентації про Ісака Ньютона та його винаходи.

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V. Writing.
And now we are going to practice in grammar (Passive voice).
I.
Put the verbs in the brackets into the correct forms (use Passive Voice)
1. Hundreds of wax figures ... (SHOW) in the Madame Tussauds Museum in London.
2. Before the invention of printing, manuscripts ... (COPY) by hand.
3. Today, coffee ... (GROW) in several countries of American and Africa.
4. A body temperature of 37 degrees centigrade ... (CONSIDER) normal.
5. Dictionaries often ... (SELL) at the university bookstore.
6. The telescope... (INVENT) by Galileo.
II.
Rewrite the sentences from active (Past Simple) into passive (Past Simple). Be
attentive: the 1st sentence has more than 1 variant.
Example:
• Stephen King wrote The Green Mile in 1996. - The Green Mile was written by
Stephen King in 1996.
1. They gave Tom a valuable prize. - a) A valuable prize... b) Tom...
2. The powerful earthquake destroyed the city. - The city...
3. George Orwell wrote some famous books. - Some famous books...
4. Newton discovered the law of gravity. - The law of gravity...
5. The thunderstorm damaged some houses. - Some houses...
6. Gustave Eiffel built the Eiffel Tower between 1887 and 1889 for the World's Fair.
- The Eiffel Tower...
7. Did he pick up the kids from school yesterday? - ... the kids ...?
VI. Summary.
Express your opinion as for inventions you consider the most important.
Start like this:
To my mind the most important invention is... because…
I consider…
I think…
So, and now answer my questions.
- What way have inventions changed our life?
- What do you think about the most famous inventions?
- How do you use some of them in our everyday life?
VII. Homework.
Your task is to write a short composition about one of the most famous inventions.

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APPENDIX
Puzzle «Inventions»
Find the words below in the puzzle.
Refrigerator, aspirin, telescope, timer, headphones, telephone, engine, airplane,
computer, rocket, penicillin, radio, camera, bike, print.
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