Recycling lesson plan

Content objectives: to understand the importance of recycling; to identify the specific rubbish bin in which you must throw trash.

Language objectives: containers (carton, can, tin, etc.), materials (plastic, paper, glass), environmental problems (air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, desertification, etc.).

This is the PowerPoint we saw in class. You can try to do the activity again, or check your answers.

Environmental problems from soniasedano

If you want, you can practise the vocabulary for environmental problems clicking here.
If you need to review the vocabulary related to containers, click here.

Thanksgiving lesson plan

Content objectives: explain what life was like for a pilgrim.

Language objectives: form questions correctly; answer questions adequately, taking into account the verb tenses and structures used.

1.       Write the word “Thanksgiving” on the board.

2.      Divide students into cooperative groups.

3.      Ask students to list on a piece of paper all the meanings, stories, and images that come to their mind when they hear the word “Thanksgiving”.

4.      Divide students into 3 groups:

-       Group A: Priscilla Mullin.

-       Group B: John Howland.

-       Group C: present-day interviewers

5.      While groups A and B read Priscilla Mullin’s and Joh Howland’s story, group C prepares an interview for each of them. They should, at least, ask 4 questions to each pilgrim.

6.      Groups A and B answer group C questions taking into account the fact-file of their character.

Priscilla Mullins John Howland

My Bed Is A Boat, by Robert Louis Stevenson

My bed is like a little boat;

Nurse helps me in when I embark;

She girds me in my sailor's coat

And starts me in the dark.

At night I go on board and say

Good-night to all my friends on shore;

I shut my eyes and sail away

And see and hear no more.

And sometimes things to bed I take,

As prudent sailors have to do;

Perhaps a slice of wedding-cake,

Perhaps a toy or two.

All night across the dark we steer;

But when the day returns at last,

Safe in my room beside the pier,

I find my vessel fast.

• click here to review some vocabulary from the poem

• see the mind map we elaborated from the poem (remember that you can extend this mind map and create new ones at bubbl.us

• if you missed the lesson or want to review it, see the PowerPoint presentation below:

My bed is a boat

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• see the following performances and videos that some people have created for this poem