Lesson Plan (Teaching Writing - Passive Voice)

Topic                   : Tenses – Passive Voice

Student Grade   : XI

Skill                     : Writing

Time Allotment  : 1 x 20 minutes

Objectives           : After this meeting, students are expected to be able to:

1.    Identify the pattern of passive voice for simple and continuous tense, especially in present and past form.

2.    Change the active sentence become passive.

3.    Construct the passive sentence.

Method               : Cooperative Learning

Teaching Resources  : Textbooks: Understanding and Using English Grammar.

                                     (Azar, Betty Schrampfer. 2002. Understanding and Using English Grammar. Longman: USA)

Steps of Activities

1.    Pre Activities    :

§  Brainstorming. (2 minutes)

2.    Whilst               :

§  Students are divided into groups of 4 students. (1 minute)

§  Each group (the home group) is given a different paper about the active and the passive sentences. (1 minute)

§  Students are asked to analyze the pattern and master it together. (2 minutes)

§  Three of students from home group will move to another group to get explanation about the different pattern.                                                                   (3 mins)   

§  One of student will stay to explain the pattern to the other members from another group.

§  Students return to the home group and explain the other pattern which they have learned from another group. (2 minutes)

§  Students are given exercise by the teacher. (3 minutes)

§  Students and the teacher discuss the best answer from the exercise. (3 minutes)

§  Students are given more explanation about passive voice. (1 minute)

            3. Post Activities   :

§  Reviewing the material that have they learned in this meeting. (2 minutes)

Assessment / Evaluation : Students (each group) are given a written assessment to construct active sentences into passive.