Creating a country

10.2A: Virtual worlds (Language with content)

School: NIS of Chemistry and Biology, Atyrau

Date:

Teacher’s name: Dauletova A.U.

Head of Department: Bissengaliyeva A.M

Grade: 10

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Theme of the lesson: Lessons 1-2. Creating a country

Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to

Lesson1:

10.C9 use imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings

10.R1 understand main points in extended texts on a range of unfamiliar general and curricular topics

10.R2 understand specific information and detail in extended texts on a growing range of familiar general and curricular topics, and some unfamiliar topics

Lesson2:

10.C1 use speaking and listening skills to solve problems creatively and cooperatively in groups

10.S3 explain and justify their own and others’ point of view on a range of general and curricular topics

10.S4 respond with flexibility at both sentence and discourse level to unexpected comments on a range of general and curricular topics

10.W2 write independently about factual and imaginary past and future events, activities and experiences on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics

Lesson objectives

SWBAT

Lesson1

All/Most learners will be able to:

• Answer the questions about the government in their country.

• Understand the meaning of the text and match the questions with the paragraphs (5 out of 8). (R1)

• Mark the statements True or False (4 correct answers out of 5) (R2)

Some learners will be able to:

• Guess all new vocabulary listening to their classmates’ descriptions.

• Understand the meaning of the text and match the questions with the paragraphs (6 out of 8). (R1)

• Mark the statements True or False without any mistakes. (R2)

Lesson2

All/Most learners will be able to:

• describe their imaginary country using talk

• identify speaker’s point of view on the topic

• explain and prove own opinions. (S3)

• write about a new country using prior knowledge and knowledge of others

• respond clearly to others’ point of view

• think of the content deeply using extra materials and give appropriate feedback

• discuss both for and against opinions in a group

Some learners will be able to:

• refer to the content and make improvements in creating a country.

• explain and prove own and other students’ opinions. (S3)

Language objectives

Students learn new vocabulary related to “government” and “political system”

Value links

Respecting diversity of opinion

Cross curricularl links

Economics, History, Geography

ICT skills

Active board

Previous learning

Unit 1C: Independent project. Presentation

Plan

Planned timings

Teacher activity

Learner activity

Differentiation

Resources

Introduction

7 min

Teacher greets Ss and introduces lesson objectives.

Lesson 1

Warm-up activity

(G) In the centre of the board write the word “government”. At the side of the board write the questions: Who is it? What is it? Where is it? Why do we have one?

Divide class into 3 groups and ask them to answer the questions about the government in their country. Listen to some of their ideas in open class and write any interesting vocabulary on the board. (C9)

Follow-up question

(W) Then, ask the following question in whole class:

What do you think you would need to do if you wanted to start your own country? (C9)

Ss think about the word “government” and answer for some questions. Before, they will be divided into 3 groups in order to do this task. They start discussing the questions about the government in their country within their group.

After, they share their ideas in open class and write different unknown words on the board.

Ss discuss this question in whole class: What do you think you would need to do if you wanted to start your own country?

Less able learners sit with most able learners. The active learners can help passive learners with the translation or definition of unknown words.

PPT

Main part.

13 min

20 min

Pre teaching new vocabulary

(G) Students work in 3 groups. Beforehand prepare a worksheet that contains new words from the text with translations. For each group teacher translates different words. Teacher gives feedback.

Main part. FA Reading

(I) Spread out copies of text to every student. Ask students to skim the text and answer the questions in exercise 1C, p.27. Check understanding of questions 1-8. (R1)

Ask students to read the text again and mark statements as true/false. (R2)

Ss work in 3 groups. Each group is given a worksheet that contains new words from the text with translations. Looking at translations they should explain the words (give definition) to other groups and they guess and complete their worksheet.

Ss skim the given text and answer the questions in exercise 1C. Then, they read the text again and do True/False tasks.

Most able learners give the definition of words on their own.

Less able learners can use internet resources or English-English dictionary.

Worksheet1

FA Reading

English in Mind 5 2^nd edition Student Book and Workbook Unit 3 Other Worlds

Introduction

5 min

Lesson 2.

Warm-up.

Teacher shows different pictures comparing virtual and real worlds.

Students will recognize the pictures and justify their opinions.

PPT

Main part

10 min

20 min

3 min

Teacher divides the students into two groups. One group express their opinion what they like about Kazakhstan and why, and other group tell about what they don’t like and why. Question “why” will be asked by the opponent team. Teacher writes their suggestions on the board and assesses formatively students answers. Teacher writes their suggestions on the board.

Students will be divided into 3 groups and each group will provide opinions about the ideal country. They will justify their answers during group discussion. (S3) Learners can present their ideas on the paper. Teacher monitors students’ answers and takes notes.

This time teacher tells that they are starting to create own country and provides the students with the steps of creating it. The task will be in the following way:

The government of Kazakhstan has been asked to create a new country in the Pacific Ocean. It will be the size of Almaty, and will consist of about 50,000 people from all over the world

Step 1

Give the country a name. Write what it's name is, the capital(s), state or province names, language(s).

Step 2

Design a flag which represents the values of the country.

Step 3

Describe the geography of their country and draw a map.

Step 4

Write 7 laws for the country and provide an oral justification for each law on Voicethread.

Step 5

Describe and justify the country’s economic policy.

Step 6

Explain how the political system of the country will work.

Step 7

Explain how the education system in the country will work.

Teacher emphasises the importance of clear planning, teamwork and checking of work. She/he asks learners to plan how they will do their work (e.g. whether they will work through each task together or divide tasks up) and to make sure that they check and proofread their work before posting it on Voicethread. (S3)

Teacher monitors for this and for use of language as learners create their new countries. (W2)

Ss are divided into two groups. One group of Ss express their opinion what they like about Kazakhstan and why, and other group of Ss tell about what they don’t like and why.

Ss work in 3 groups. Each group will talk about the ideal country. They can also present their ideas on the paper. Then they will give feedback to the teacher.

Now, Ss stay in the same group and create own country following the given steps. They share responsibilities among themselves.

As everyone has enough information about their country, they will start thinking of their own country. Learners need to complete a profile of their country on Voicethread (see Unit 1C), using text, video and audio.

Each group presents what they have done in this lesson.

While presenting less able learners can write the unknown or complicated words on the board.

FA Speaking

Worksheet 2

Voicethread

http://voicethread.com/

http://www.theygetaround.com/creating-your-own-country-how-to-start-a-country-or-micronation/

http://www.wikihow.com/Start-Your-Own-Country

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation

PPT or Poster

Conclusion:

2 min

Reflection.

At the end of the lesson teacher asks learners to write reflection on the sticker.

What they liked and what was difficult for them.

Additional information

Differentiation – how do you plan to give more support? How do you plan to challenge the more able Ss?

Assessment – how are you planning to check learners’ learning?

Health and safety check

Differentiation is done by task:

-Provide less able Ss with new vocabulary for less able Ss

T monitors FA Listening, Speaking and Reading.

Exercises for eyes in the middle of the lesson.

Reflection

Were the lesson objectives/learning objectives realistic? Did all learners achieve the LO?

If not, why?

Did my planned differentiation work well?

Did I stick to timings?

What changes did I make from my plan and why?

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Summary evaluation

What two things went really well (consider both teaching and learning)?

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What have I learned from this lesson about the class or achievements/difficulties of individuals that will inform my next lesson?