jenny was here!

Yesterday Jenny came to observe a lesson at AFNORTH. I thought it went well but it is really hard to measure the level of the students. They are American and I'M used to teaching Dutch secondary school students.
Later I will add another pi
This is my lessonplan when Jenny came to observe my lesson yesterday.
Lesson plan 29-11-2010 A christmas Carol

Journal:

Christmas can only be celebrated by those who carry the Christmas spirit throughout the entire year.

(10 min)

Introduction (7 min) ( check the answers 15 min)

Show the First song of ‘a christmas carol’ the musical.
Give the students a question sheet.

The students need to write down:
1. what they see
2. what they hear

Questions are:

1. Where does the story take place? London England
2. What are the people singing about? Christmas is near
3. Do you think that the people outside singing are poor people? Why/why not?
4. What about the people inside the building?
5. Is Bob Cratchit in good health?
6. Is mister Scrooge a nice kind of person? Why/ why not?
7. Mister Scrooge says that ‘christmas is a humbug’. What do you think ‘a humbug’ means? Is it a positive/negative word
8. Do the people like mister Scrooge
9. The people are singing ‘everyone have a jolly good time’ What do they mean by that?


Presentation (25 min – 35 min)

Read a chapter from the book.
Read the chapter ‘christmas past’ and after reading it we are going to watch the movie part of this chapter.
After watching the fragment the students are working in pairs and make a list.
The list contains:
1. similarities between the book chapter and the movie fragment
2. differences between the book chapter and the movie fragment

presentation 2 ( 4 min) ( answers discussion 5 min)

Listen to the song : there’s a place called home and fill in the gaps.


Lyrics:

There’s a place called home. I can almost see
With a red front door and a roaring fire and a Christmas tree.
Yes a place called home full of love and family and I’m there at the door watching you come home to me.

Through the years, I recall this day. In your arms when I finally found my way.
To a place called home and a life for two.
You’ll have everything you could ever want. All I want is you.
And a place called home you and I will always be. In the dark of the night let your heart come home to me.

Through the years, I recall this day. In your arms when I finally found my way. To a place called home and a life with you.
When the days are long and the love is strong and the dreams are true.
Just a place called home you and I will always be.
In the dark of the night let your heart come home to me.
To the place in my heart where you’re always home with me.

Transfer Let students work in groups of 4

Place mat.
Every group of four pupils receives a paper. One pupil draws a rectangle in the middle of the paper. This rectangle is the shared rectangle. Then every pupil draws his own rectangle from the corners of the shared rectangle towards the corners of the paper. (see picture)
I will tell them to write down what they do for Christmas. (eat, wear, buy etc…) They have a couple of minutes to write down their answers in their own rectangle.
Then a discussion can begin. The pupils need to come up with ‘the perfect christmas’ combining 1 item from every corner and write it down in the centre.
Let one student from every group read their ‘perfect christmas’.