Module B Lesson Six: Essential Questions

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Module B

LESSON SIX (Expanding individual growth)


Online, Asynchronous
Skill: Predicting, phrasal verbs

Essential questions:
● Will having students work on a language project about giving back lead to their being
more charitable in their personal lives?

Learning objectives:
At the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
Learning Objectives Needs Assessment (click the READY strategy based on 5C
link to see details) standards (Goal Areas)
#1: academic English and
skills; #2: communicative
English; #3 good motivations

Explain the purpose of the #1, #3 Explain


freerice.com Web site. (in Communication goal area)

Identify and explain the #1, #2 Reinforce


meaning of phrasal verbs (in Connections goal area);
related to the topic of “giving
back.”

Make predictions as a pre- #1, #2, #3 Explain


reading strategy. (in Communication goal area);
Yearns towards…
(in Community goal area)

Important concepts: creative problem solving, benefits and obstacles, reflection

Teacher Instructions:
● Visit the Website: http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1445
● After exploring the website for 4-5 minutes, answer the following questions on a piece of
scrap paper:
○ What is the purpose of this Web site?
○ What does it do?
○ Why was it created?
○ Do you ever give back? If so, in what ways do you do so?
● Use the dictionary (https://www.ldoceonline.com/) to find the meaning of the phrasal
verbs in the Phrasal Verb Vocabulary List.
● Besides donating money, think of different ways that people “give back.”
● Write down as many examples you can think of in 3 minutes on your Making
Predictions Worksheet.
● Read the article “The Secret to Happiness is Helping Others”: http://time.com/collection-
post/4070299/secret-to-happiness/ and count how many examples of “giving back” are
in the article.
● Look at your list on your Prediction Worksheet and count how many you had in common
with the article.
○ Did any of the ways to give back in the article surprise you? Which ones?
○ According to your predictions and what you read in the Time article, do you give
back more or less than you thought?
● Combine your skills! Write 5 unique sentences using the example scenarios that you
predicted and a phrasal verb in each sentence.
● Submit the 5 sentences via the LMS.

READY strategy:
Through the curriculum, the students will be able to:
READY 5C Goal Areas Standards
strategy

R Reinforce Build, reinforce, and expand their knowledge of


(in Connections goal area) other disciplines while using the language to
develop critical thinking and to solve problems
creatively.

E Explain 1. Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard,


(in Communication goal read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
area) 2. Present information, concepts, and ideas to
inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety
of topics using appropriate media and adapting to
various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
Clarify the “why” or the “how” of ideas, actions, or
phenomena.

A Advancement Reflect on the relationship between the practices


(in Culture goal area ) and perspectives of the cultures studied.
D Develop 1. Develop insight into the nature of language and
(in Comparison goal area) culture in order to interact with cultural competence
2. Use the language to investigate, explain, and
reflect on the nature of language through
comparisons of the language studied and their own.

Y Yearns towards... Learners use the language both within and beyond
(in Community goal area) the classroom to interact and collaborate in their
community and the globalized world.

Materials needed:
Computer
Phrasal Verb Vocabulary Building exercise (pdf only)
Making Predictions worksheet

Collaboration:
Not applicable in this asynchronous lesson.

Assessment:
Students will submit 5 sentences in which they demonstrate the ability to combine language
skills with ideas presented in the lesson. Submission to be made via LMS. Each sentence can
be graded out of a total three points, using the following grading scheme: one point for proper
context, one point for the correctly-used phrasal verb, one point for appropriate mechanics
(spelling, grammar, etc) for their learning level for a total of 15 points.
Sentence Used proper context The phrasal verb Proper mechanics for Subtotal
(+1) used correct,y (+1) student level (+1)

Total /15
Making Predictions worksheet

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