Wonderful World
Posted: July 15, 2014 | Author: All.at.C | Filed under: lesson plan | Tags: animals, David Attenborough, listening, speaking, vocabulary |8 CommentsMAIN ACTIVITIES Listening, discussion, vocabulary of animals and geographical features.
SUITABLE FOR Teens and adults, Intermediate (B1) and above
TEACHER’S NOTES (Click here for a pdf of the Teacher’s Notes.)
STEP 1
Display this word cloud or make your own at http://www.wordle.net. Tell students that it contains the lyrics of a well-known song. Give them a minute to try and identify the song.
STEP 2
Display the second word cloud, which contains the song title. Did they get it right?
STEP 3
Tell them to draw a grid four squares by four squares. They choose sixteen words from the cloud and write one word in each square of their grid.
STEP 4
Play the video – sound only, with the screen blank. Students cross out each word they hear in their grid and afterwards compare what they heard / didn’t hear with a partner.
STEP 5
Display or hand out a copy of the lyrics so that students can see where their words appear in the song and check new vocabulary if necessary.
STEP 6
Put students in pairs and assign each pair two lines of the song. Tell them that they are going to think about images to include in a video for the song. What images will they include to illustrate their two lines? Encourage them to use the lines as a starting point. It isn’t enough to say “Some green trees and red roses.” (Describe the trees. Where are they? Any people? Who are they? What are they doing? etc.)
STEP 7
Give them a few minutes to come up with some ideas and then ask each pair to tell the rest of the class what images they agreed on.
STEP 8
Now play the video so that students can compare their images with the ones used in the video. How many can they remember? You could do this as a competition: put students in groups and get them to write down as many animals / geographical features as they can. Award two points for words they know in English and one point for words in their own language.
STEP 9
Finish off by choosing some questions for students to discuss from these teflpedia pages: Animals, Animal Rights, The Environment.
Such a beauty of lesson plan!!
Thanks Gabriela. Hope your students enjoy it!
Wonderful lesson! I cannot wait to teach it! My students will love it especially my 16-18s! Thanks a lot!
Oya
Thanks Oya. Hope the lesson goes well!
Amazing lesson!!! My students loved it. Thank you so much:)
You’re welcome, Magdalena. We’re glad your students enjoyed the lesson. Thanks for letting us know 🙂
A wonderful song with wonderful lyrics!
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