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Lesson plan 1
Time: 45 minutes
Level: Upper intermediate and above
Subject: relationships and happiness
Aims: talking about relationships as a starting point towards the subject of happiness
Objectives: students can express their opinion about relationships and happiness, use the vocabulary specific for the language area.
Tools: computers, headsets, microphones, a voice recorder, handouts
Programs: Skype, Instant Messaging program
Possible problems: equipment failure, network failure, lack of computer skills, bad timing
| Procedure | Time
(min) | Form of work/tools | Purpose |
Lesson lead-in
- logging into the system,
- looking at the software,
- vocabulary needed | 5 | Hand-outs, graphic files, audio-files
Computers, headphones, microphones | Making students familiar with the software and the vocabulary connected with it |
Pre-listening activity
How do people meet?
How can you meet someone to be with?
What makes a good couple? | 5 | IM whole class chat session discussion – brainstorming ideas
Many-to many mode | Generating ideas
Sharing views
Generating vocabulary |
| Explaining the vocabulary from the clip | 5 | Handout
Whole class | Making students familiar with the words that may cause problems in the clip |
Listening activity
Clip - listen and watch
What stages of life of a person can you think of?
Clip - listen, watch and answer the questions
What are the people in the clip like?
-the woman
-the man
-their friends
-their family
Try to characterize them briefly.
Give as many adjectives as possible.
Clip - checking the answers |
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Youtube clip
Handout + clip
IM chat (one-to-one) |
Eliciting the language from students
Revising vocabulary and assimilating new words
Gathering and preparing the material under discussion |
Post listening activity
In your opinion, will the guy agree to have a life together with the girl?
If someone presented such a practical point of view on life to you, would you agree to his/her proposal?
What is your opinion about the girl?
Is it worthwhile being such straightforward in your relations with people you barely know?
How can you characterize the modern relations between men and women? | 10 | Panel discussion
Skype session | Eliciting the language from students
Speaking practice, negotiations |
Homework
Prepare a short story that a guy could tell the girl to ask her to be with her – analogical to the one in the clip | 5 |
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Lesson one - teaching materials
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Getting started
Computer vocabulary
To log on = to sign in, to be online, to operate a program
To start a chat = to start to talk with somebody via e.g. an IM program
To double click
To right/left-click
To send a file
To change online status
other
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"I guess you'll do..."
1) Discussion
Discuss the following questions
-What are the modern ways of meeting people?
-What makes a good couple?
-What is the stereotype of a woman in today's world?
2) Watch, listen and present.
Look at the vocabulary and try to guess the meaning of the given words:
- to be on a schedule =
- courtship =
- roll around =
- go to the movies =
- get in a fight =
- make up =
- cubicles =
- cherished memory =
- memorial day barbecue =
- "get it over with" =
- the highlight of sb's life =
- philosophical pursuit =
- to be the centre of attention =
- to give birth =
- adequate but not spectacular =
- to lack sth (the size and skill) =
- semi-finished basement =
- to decide against (≠...... ) sth =
- to retire =
- discuss sth at length =
- heart complications =
- slip away into dementia =
- die of natural causes =
- "it will be done" =
a)Watch the clip
What stages of life of a person can you think of?
b)
Watch the clip once again and answer the questions
What are the people in the clip like? Try to characterize them briefly. Give as many adjectives as possible.
-the woman
-the man
-their friends
-their family
c)
Try to discuss the following questions
Will the guy agree to have a life together with the girl?
If someone presented you such a practical point of view on life, would you agree to his/her proposal?
What is your opinion about the girl?
Is it worthwhile being such straightforward in your relations with people you barely know?
How can you characterize the modern relations between men and women?
Lesson plan 2
Time: 45 minutes
Level: Upper intermediate and above
Subject: Where was the fish?
Aims: talking about the past
Objectives: students can talk about their past events, they know the forms of the verbs
Tools: computers, headsets, microphones, a voice recorder, handouts, a set of pictures,
Programs: Skype, Instant Messaging program
Possible problems: equipment failure, network failure, lack of computer skills, bad timing
| Procedure | Time
(min) | Form of work/tools | Purpose |
| Logging to the system, copying files for the lesson | 5 | Handouts, files, computer equipment | Getting ready for the lesson |
Lead-in activity
Presenting homework from the previous lesson | 5 | Skype conference
One-to-one mode
Pair work | Revising vocabulary from the previous lesson
Warm-up speaking activity |
| A short text in Past Simple tense | 5 | Reading, written text – hand-out | Past simple text as a model for further discussion |
Pre-activity
Students discuss together the use of Past Simple tense, how to form questions, answers, how to form regular verbs, and where to find irregular verbs | 5 | Whole class-teacher mode
Hand-outs | Revising Past Simple |
Activity
Students receive hand-outs with the story about a man, both hand-outs contain blank spaces and students' role is to ask questions and receive answers to fill in the blanks | 10 | Pair work
One-to-one mode
Computer equipment, Skype
Handouts | Practicing Past Simple questions, short answers |
Post-activity
Students receive hand-outs with some grammar activities, they do the exercises and check the answers
Students talk to each other about three possible past events from their life
Their interlocutors' task is to guess which of them is true and which are false
Students can ask each other additional questions | 5
5 | Whole class
IM chat session
Skype conference
Many-to-many mode | Practicing speaking
Explaining troublesome grammar issues |
| Homework – prepare a short speech about your best childhood experience | 5 |
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Lesson two - teaching materials
1.Getting started
2. Reading
You will read a short text. Determine which tense is used, when and how do we use it and how do we form questions and negatives.
October arrived, spreading a damp chill over the grounds and into the castle. Madam Pomfrey, the nurse, was kept busy by a sudden spate of colds among the staff and students. Her Pepperup potion worked instantly, though it left the drinker smoking at the ears for several hours afterward. Ginny Weasley, who had been looking pale, was bullied into taking some by Percy. The steam pouring from under her vivid hair gave the impression that her whole head was on fire.
J.K. Rowling, "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
2. Looking for some information
Read the text and ask your partner for missing information. The underlined parts are the parts missing in your partner's text, so don't ask about them:
John Duckson always started his day from ............ Yesterday was the same. He woke up at ..................... then he brushed his teeth and prepared breakfast: ...................................... Before going to work, John fed the fish, but he forgot to feed ...............................
The day at work was quite tiring, so John dreamed about long holidays abroad and made plans about .............................................
When John came home, he felt something was different. The atmosphere changed and he felt at ease. He checked the ........................., he looked into the ................... to see if everything is where he had put it and suddenly he realized that the fish bowl he kept his best friend Gilly-the-fish was empty.
3. Grammar practice
Transform the above text into Present Simple
4. Grammar practice - speaking
Your friend just came back from holidays. You ask him about it. Write questions:
a) Where/go?
b) go alone?
c) food/good?
d) how long/stay there?
e) where/live?
f) stay/ hotel?
g) how travel?
i) the weather fine?
j) what/do/evenings?
k) meet/anyone interesting
4. Speaking
Talk together about your last/best holidays. Use the questions above. Then refer to your colleagues about your partner's holidays.
Lesson plan 3
Time: 45 minutes
Level: Upper intermediate
Subject: Money
Aims: talking about the money
Objectives:S tudents use the vocabulary connected with the language area, express their ideas on money issues and on homelessness, they are able to make a survey and present the survey results in a proper manner
Tools: computers, headsets, microphones, a voice recorder, handouts, a set of pictures,
Programs: Skype, Instant Messaging program
Possible problems: equipment failure, network failure, lack of computer skills, bad timing
| Procedure | Time
(min) | Form of work/tools | Purpose |
Lead-in
Checking homework from the previous lesson | 5 | Pair work | Checking homework, practicing speaking as a warm up activity |
Pre-reading activity
Discussing questions
Does money give happiness?
Is money important in life today?
Survey
-students make survey and fill in a hand-out so that they can find out about the inclinations in the class
Paying attention to the vocabulary from the text |
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10 |
Skype - discussion
Survey - each student receives a question to ask and to get answer to |
Expressing opinion,
Asking questions and eliciting language
Introduction to the text |
Reading activity
Students enter
http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/05/19/the-homeless-billionaire/
and read about a rich man who does not have a house. They try to answer some questions
Checking answers |
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Text about a millionaire
A set of questions
Skype - one to one mode,
Pair work, discussing the answers | Stimulating students to further discussion |
Post reading activity
Creating the families of words on the basis on the vocabulary from the text | 10 | Hand-out
Checking answers in a chat session |
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Homework
Filling the text with Past Simple forms | 5 |
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Lesson three - teaching materials
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Getting started
Does money give happiness?
Is money important in life today?
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Survey
Make a survey. Ask your friends the two questions, find out their answers, add your own and give the percentage.
Question 1-Agnieszka
If you won a national lottery, would you donate all the money to charity?
If you won a national lottery, would you keep this money in your house?
Question 2-Magda
If you were a rich man, would you spend any of your money on gambling?
If you were a rich man, would you invest your money in real estate?
Question 3-Mateusz
If you were a millionaire, would you have more than one house?
If you were a millionaire, would you sign a prenuptial agreement?
Question 4-Rafał
Would you choose not to work if you won 2 million dollars?
Would you hire a driver to drive your car if you were very rich?
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Reading
Open the file with the text or enter the site http://blogs.wsj.com/wealth/2008/05/19/the-homeless-billionaire/
Read the text and answer the following questions:
- What are the two things that make Nicolas unusual?
- What did Nicolas do with his possessions?
- What does it mean that "for him, wealth is about lasting impact, not stuff"?
- Why does he perceive wealth as temporary?
- Why doesn't he take pleasure from acquiring things?
- Does his attitude towards money become popular?
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Discuss
What do you think about Nicolas's attitude towards money?
Does a social status depend on money?
Does it influence the person's personality?
Why do people need to accumulate things?
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Read the opinions about Nicolas and say whether you agree:
Yes, easy for him to say that he doesn't care about possessions while he's hotel hopping. I wouldn't mind not owning a home either if I could stay wherever I wanted
I have to agree with him....sorta'. Owning real estate makes you an ATM for everybody: GOVERNMENT...CONTRACTORS...UTILITY COMPANIES...INSURANCE COMPANIES ...ANGRY WIVES or SIGNIFICANT OTHERS. Now if you need land to raise a family or grow food that's another story...but if you're wealthy & single-why all the clutter?
He is 'houseless', not homeless in the normal meaning of the term. And this is hardly new - cycles of the rich seeking simplicity by surrendering possessions goes back at least several millennia. Still, while hardly reducing possessions to a monk's desk and wandering about, he really is doing something and its worthy of note.
I like his philosophy. It's pretty deep. No matter if this trend is moving up the wealth latter or not, not many will subscribe to this way of living. This dude is unique.
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Give the noun, verb, adjective related to the word:
| Verb | Noun |
| Adjective | Noun |
| Invest |
| Homeless |
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| Acquire |
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| Fortune |
| Possess |
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| Wealth |
| Mean |
| Dependent |
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