lesson plan

Lesson Plan
Students: advanced (5th year University students)
Time: 2 Sessions
Video: about 1 minute commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8
Values: social awareness of total control; personal freedom vs. authoritarian power
Objectives: vocabulary building, idiomatic peculiarities
Building Language Awareness:
Building Cultural Awareness:
Teacher’s Tips:
Lesson Sequence
1. Integration of skills.
2. Group and Pair work.
3. Students Identifying Topics.
4. Students Planning Activities.
Pre-viewing: Students are splitted into groups to discuss their associations with 1984 concerning Russia and the USA (people, events, Politics, music, literature etc.). They may use the Internet to do some research. Then they are given hand-outs to fill.
Ex.
Russia1984 The USA1984


The list should include only 10 items. Then students compare their results with other groups to find the most frequent associations.
Then the items are to be organized in a Wordle. Students compare the results with other groups to find the most frequent associations.
While-viewing: Students watch the commercial “Mac 1984” to answer the questions: “What is advertised? What famous novel does the commercial refer to? Do you know the author?”
Post-viewing: Discussion. Vocabulary activities: matching, making up word-combinations etc. Students are given the quotations from G. Orwell’s book “1984”
Ex.
“He who controls the past, controls the future.”
“The Big Brother is watching you.”
“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
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Topical vocabulary usage: in a group debate on the quotation chosen from the list. Then students should post their ideas on Twitter and get feedback to share it with the groupmates.
Hometask: create a kind of a commercial on the problems discussed using topical vocabulary.