Brenes b read_act6
- 1. Activity 2 Topic: Life / Target Content: A superficial Life Level B2 Learning Goal Making students reflect on society´s fakeness and superficiality, and people’s fate. Technique Active reading Objective After showing the Ss the video, they will be able to analyze society´s fakeness and superficiality, and people’s fate. Values Humility, honesty and acceptance. Segment Time Instructor’s Task Participants Learning Tasks Rationale Schema activation 5 min - T will show the video of the poem Some Days to Ss and ask them to voice their general opinion of the poem using the following questions as a guide: Is it a romantic poem? How do you feel about the poem? What is the general idea of the poem? What is the mood of the poem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n- a8ELOVig4 - Ss will watch the video and voice their general opinion towards it by answering the T’ questions. - This part of the class will allow students to have and express their general idea of the video through guided questions. Reading Activity 20 min - T will distribute a sheet with the Poem Some Days to Ss. - T will ask the Ss to read the poem in pairs. -T. will ask Ss to correct the False information. - Ss will complete the True and False activity. -Ss will correct the false information. - This section of the class will enable Ss to understand the story in a better way by deep reading for details. In-class speaking 20 min -T will divide the group into two subgroups. -T will assign each group a topic presented in the poem: -Ss will work in two groups. - Ss will be assigned two - This section of the class will enable
- 2. expansion activity -T will give each group a set of quotes related to their topic. -T will ask the Ss to discuss their quotes and relate them to the poem. different topics from the story: fate and superficial people. - Ss will be discuss a set of quotes related to their assigned topics and relate them to the poem. -Ss will present their ideas to the other group. students to think more critically about two topics presented in the poem through some given quotes.
- 3. Material Some Days Billy Collins – 1941 Some days Iput the people intheir placesatthe table, bend theirlegs atthe knees, if they come with that feature, and fixthem intothe tinywooden chairs. Allafternoon they faceone another, the man inthe brown suit, the woman inthe bluedress, perfectlymotionless, perfectlybehaved. But other days, I am the one who isliftedup by the ribs, then loweredintothe diningroom of a dollhouse tosit with the others at the longtable. Veryfunny, but how would you likeit ifyou neverknewfrom one dayto the next
- 4. if you weregoing tospend it stridingaround likeavividgod, your shouldersinthe clouds, or sittingdown there amidst the wallpaper, staringstraight ahead with your little plastic face? Retrieved from: https://poets.org/poem/some-days Reading Activity: After you read, analyze the bold words and think about what these words and phrases really mean, what do they symbolize? Complete the table with key words and complete ideas. Words and phrases from the poem Simbolism
- 5. In-class speaking expansion activity: Group 1: Superficial People