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Title: Describing teenagers’ living
Margarita Keshubayeva
School-gymnasium #10, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
E-mail: sc10@ukg.kz
Language level of students: pre-intermediate
Age group: teens (at the age of 14-15)
Time: 50-60 minutes
Skills / aspects focus: speaking; reading; writing; listening
Resources and materials: Tables with the questions to discuss; Wenn-diagram on the blackboard.
Objectives:
- To practice communicating with the native speakers effectively;
- To practice making notes of the important information while discussing;
- To prepare for speaking activity and to participate in discussion;
- To prepare and make a short group presentation.
Possible problems:
Some students may have fewer imaginative ideas than others and so careful grouping is needed.
Because this lesson raises potentially sensitive issues, it is recommended that the lesson only be implemented after students and teacher have gotten to know one another, after they have developed some level of trust.
Pre-activity
If you wish, elicit the questions and write them on the board to start students thinking, e.g.
- In which way are we different?
- What do we have in common?
- Is it a great problem to understand each other?
At the end of the lesson they should be able to answer these questions.
Warm up
Exercise 1.
Ask students what they already know about the way of living in the USA and Kazakhstan, e.g.
- What are the main sources of information for us? (Newspapers, TV programs, and movies)
- Is it enough to make any full of meaning conclusions about the nation?
- But each of us has the definite image of an average American teenager. What do you think about the Americans? What do you think about the people in Kazakhstan?
- How do you imagine the average American teenager? How do you imagine the average teenager in Kazakhstan?
Exercise 2.
Ask students to agree or disagree with the statements, to comment and correct the false statements.
Exercise 3.
Ask students to give the definition of the word “stereotype”. If it is difficult you can use the given below. (Handouts 1)
Activity
Breaking these stereotypes. (Group work: 3 groups- 3 topics.)
(All teenagers’ problems can be divided into 3 main parts. While discussing these problems we can touch upon your living generally)
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Divide the students into 3 international groups. Students work in groups discussing one of the topics (or if you have enough time all of them) comparing 2 countries. You can prepare the charts for students with the questions to help them to stay on track while discussing the problems.
Students work in groups discussing the questions and making notes in the charts.
Presentation at the blackboard.
The groups then exchange ideas and, as a class, the other students can ask questions if they wish.
Post-Activity
Drawing Wenn-diagram on the blackboard.
Students try to find similarities and differences of teenagers in America and KZ.
Answer the questions (They were given at the beginning of the lesson).
Suggestions for adapting the activity plan
Because the theme of the lesson can be explored and interpreted from multiple perspectives, teachers may use the proposed lesson plan in a variety of ways: They can use it for a single, stand-alone lesson; they can design a series of connected lessons that explore the theme in more detail; or they can develop a thematic unit that examines the theme from a variety of perspectives over a longer period of time. The ideas presented here are meant to serve as a starting point for teachers interested in introducing this topic to their students
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Handouts
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