LEVEL: Form 4 (Intermediate – Advanced)
TOPIC: Places of Interest
THEME: Environment
TIME: 1 hour 10 minutes
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Reading, Writing and Speaking skills
LANGUAGE CONTENT: Information transfer (skimming and scanning for specific details).
AIMS: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1. skim and scan a text for specific details about description of Europe’s countries, main region and cities
2. transfer information from the website to describe places of interest in Europe
3. plan their own trip to Europe
4. present their findings on “Our Trip to Europe” in class
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
· Computers (2 students per computer)
· Internet Connection
· Web Browser (Internet Explorer, Modzilla Firefox, Google Chrome etc.)
PREPARATION:
1. Allocate a suitable website about “Europe-the never ending journey” for the lesson.
2. Check the appropriateness of the website for the students.
3. Prepare worksheets based on the information from the website.
WEBSITE:
1) http://www.visiteurope.com/ccm/about-europe/regions-of-europe/?nav_cat=2793310&lang=en_GL
2) http://www.visiteurope.com/ccm/where_to_go/?lang=en_GL
PROCEDURE:
Set Induction: (10 minutes)
1. Teacher plays a video on “Places of Europe you must see before you die”
2. Teacher asks students whether they would like to visit Europe and asks them to give their opinion about the places.
3. Teacher introduces the lesson.
Task 1: (15 minutes)
1. Teacher asks students to sit in pairs and share a computer.
2. Teacher instructs students to browse the website chosen and explains what the website is all about.
3. Teacher asks students to read the description in the website together with their partner.
4. Teacher distributes worksheet (worksheet 1) to students and asks them to complete the worksheets referring to the website.
5. Teacher guides each pair in completing the activity.
6. Teacher discusses the answer with students.
Task 2: (35 minutes)
1. Teacher distributes another worksheet (worksheet2) to students and asks them to complete the task by filling in the name of places together with information based on the website.
2. Teacher guides students in their work.
3. Teacher instructs each pair to present their ‘Trip to Europe’ in class.
Conclusion: (5 minutes)
1. Teacher recaps the lesson on ‘Europe-the never ending journey’.
2. Teacher encourages students to visit interesting places to develop their knowledge.
Follow-up Activity:
Each student has to write a short essay on his/her plan to visit Europe. Student also needs to provide a few reasons why he/she chooses the place. Later, students need to send the essay to the teacher by email before the next class.
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 2
Follow-up Activity
This LP builds also general and geographical knowledge. Maybe not too challenging for advanced students. Would be interesting to see whether it will work with schools in the rural areas.
ReplyDeleteYupsy, this is an interesting LP for the rural area students as it can also expose them to the interesting places around the world throughout the lesson. A good exposure, indeed...(^_*)
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ReplyDeleteWould be kinda boring for the urban students, especially if they've been to those places (rich kids, sigh). But you manage to create an LP in a good context, which is very critical to the learning outcomes. great job, and I love the worksheet (^_^)
ReplyDeleteI like the task sheet you have prepared for the kids.It will definitely put their focus intact! But i kinda agree with Fattah on the 'rich kids' part.Owh hey,maybe you could make them to debate with each other on countries of their selection! ;)
ReplyDeleteit's a good LP, suitable for Malaysian students...The best part about this LP is the interesting & colourfull worksheet, i am sure students will enjoy it and feel motivate to do it...
ReplyDeletei would love to go to europe.... if i don't have the chance to go there in reality, this LP will help me to fulfill it. if i were the students, i would use this lesson to learn more about europe. if i don't go there, at least i still can tell other people about the place.
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