Unit 3: PowerPoint
Basics
Duration: 8 sessions (1 hour each)
Main tool: Microsoft PowerPoint
Objectives:
1. Understand what PowerPoint is and how it works.
2. Learn the basic parts of the PowerPoint window.
3. Use text formatting tools to create presentations.
4. Apply transitions and animations.
5. Create a project about means of transportation using
PowerPoint.
Lesson 1: • Objective: Understand the purpose
and basic use of PowerPoint.
What is • Vocabulary: presentation, slide, text,
PowerPoin image, title, save, open.
t?
Activities:
• 1. Warm-up (10 min) – Teacher shows different
presentation slides and ask: What do you see? Have you used
PowerPoint before?
• 2. Presentation (15 min) – PowerPoint is a program for
making presentations. Students learn how to open a new file
and add a slide.
• 3. Practice (25 min) – Students open PowerPoint, add a
slide, and type their name.
• 4. Wrap-up (10 min) – Ask: "What can we do in
PowerPoint?"
Lesson 2: • Objective: Identify the main parts of
the PowerPoint window.
PowerPoin • Vocabulary: ribbon, slide panel,
t Window toolbar, title bar, slide sorter, text
Parts box.
Activities:
• 1. Warm-up (10 min) – Show a screenshot of the
PowerPoint window and ask: "What do you see?“
• 2. Presentation (15 min) – key parts of the
PowerPoint window:
• 3. Practice (25 min) – Students explore the window
and match terms with the correct parts. (See next slide)
• 4. Wrap-up (10 min) – Quick quiz: "Where is the
ribbon?“
Draw a PowerPoint window and name its parts.
Ribbon (Where you find tools to create
slides)
Slide Panel (Where you see the slides)
Key Parts Slides Thumbnail Panel (Small slides on
of the the left side)
PowerPoin Title Bar (Shows the name of the
t window: presentation)
Quick Access Toolbar (Small tools at the
top for quick actions)
Status Bar (Shows slide number and
zoom level)
Lesson Objective: Change font, size, color,
and alignment in PowerPoint.
3: Vocabulary: bold, italic, underline,
Formattin font, size, color, alignment.
g Text in
PowerPoi
nt
Activities:
1. Warm-up (10 min) – Show two slides: one with plain
text, one with formatted text. Ask: Which one looks better?
Why?
2. Presentation (15 min) – Demonstrate text formatting
options.
3. Practice (25 min) – Students type a sentence about
their favorite hobby and format it.
4. Wrap-up (10 min) – Mini review: How do we change
text color?
Lesson Objective: Learn to insert, resize, and
move images and shapes in
4: PowerPoint.
Inserting Vocabulary: insert, picture, shape,
resize, move, delete.
Images
and
Shapes
Activities:
1. Warm-up (10 min) – Show a slide with text only and
a slide with images. Ask: Which one looks more interesting?
2. Presentation (15 min) – Show how to insert images
and shapes.
3. Practice (25 min) – Students insert an image and a
shape in their slides.
4. Wrap-up (10 min) – How do we insert an image?
Lesson Objective: Apply transitions and
animations to slides.
5: Vocabulary: transition, animation,
Transition effect, slide show, motion.
s and
Animatio
ns
Activities:
1. Warm-up (10 min) – Show two slides: one with and
one without transitions. Ask: Which one looks better?
2. Presentation (15 min) – Explain the difference
between transitions (between slides) and animations
(inside slides).
3. Practice (25 min) – Students add a transition to one
slide and an animation to text.
4. Wrap-up (10 min) – What is the difference between a
transition and an animation?
Lesson 6: Objective: Start a project about
means of transportation using
Thematic PowerPoint.
Presentatio Vocabulary: car, bus, train, airplane,
n - Means of bicycle, motorcycle, subway.
Transportati
on
Activities:
1. Warm-up (10 min) – Ask: "How do you go to school?
What other types of transportation do you know?"
2. Presentation (15 min) – Show an example of a
PowerPoint presentation about transportation.
3. Practice (25 min) – Students create a slide about
their favorite transport and add an image.
4. Wrap-up (10 min) – Share slides with the class.
Lesson 7: Objective: Complete the project with
transitions and animations.
Finishing
the
Presentatio
n
(Workshop)
Activities:
1. Warm-up (10 min) – Ask: What makes a presentation
interesting?
2. Project (40 min) – Students complete their means of
transportation presentations, adding transitions and
animations.
Students present their means of transportation slides to the class.
3. Wrap-up (10 min) – Peer review: students check a partner's
presentation.
Class feedback: "What did you learn in this unit?"