Lesson script
2nd educational stage, English
Content area:
Multiculturalism in foreign language lessonsDetailed requirements:
Student (13) has language awareness (e.g. of similarities and differences between languages).Topic
: Language borrowings (loan words)Duration
: 45 minutesDetailed goals regarding the range of information
Student:
Knows the concept of language families;
Knows examples of words which have been borrowed into English from other languages;
Knows examples of English words which have been loaned to Polish.
Detailed goals regarding the range of skills
Student:
Can name a range of different languages;
Can recognise unique features of some languages;
Can match words to the languages they originate from;
Enhances memory.
Detailed goals regarding attitudes
Student:
Learns to respect the uniqueness of other languages;
Learns to cooperate with other students.
Methods
Elicitation; multiple matching; presentation; multiple choice; whole class, pairs, individual work.
Forms and venue
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Forms: individual, pairwork, whole class.
Classes are to be held in the classroom.
Materials and teaching aids
Worksheets for pairs of students (stage 2.1.); presentation; quiz; computer and multimedia projector; board.
Multimedia resources
Presentation
Interactive quiz
Online dictionary
Lesson plan/procedure
1 Warm-up
Interaction forms: whole class Duration: 5 minutes
Teacher asks students to name as many foreign languages as they can and puts them on the board. Then, he/she asks if students can say any words in some of these languages. Maybe they know some words from songs/movies/products they use?
2 Main stage
2.1. Introduction of the concept of multilingualism Interaction forms: pairwork, whole class
Duration: 10 minutes
Teacher asks students if they know what the first full-length Disney animated film was (“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”). Then he/she puts students into pairs. They are going to see the title of this film in different languages and they will have to match the titles to the appropriate languages. Each pair is given the table below.
Students should be able to figure out some languages and they may simply guess the rest.
When they are ready, the teacher elicits answers in the whole class. He/She asks students to look at the titles in different languages and note if they can observe any similarities between some languages. Which languages are the most similar to English?
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Match the titles 1–9 with the languages a–i, by putting the correct letter in the box provided.
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs a English 2 Schneewittchen und die sieben Zwerge b Czech3 Sněhurka a sedm trpaslíků c Finnish
4 Blancanieves y los siete enanitos d French
5 Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains e German
6 Snieguolė ir septyni nykštukai f Lithuanian
7 Albă ca Zăpada şi cei şapte pitici g Norwegian
8 Snehvit og de syv dvergene h Romanian
9 Lumikki ja seitsemän kääpiötä i Spanish
Answers: 2e, 3b, 4i, 5d, 6f, 7h, 8g, 9c
2.2. Target language – presentation Interaction forms: whole class Duration: 16 minutes
Teacher tells students that now they will see a presentation which shows how some words are similar in many languages; that there are some language families; that many words in English have been borrowed from other languages; and that some words in Polish come from English.
Teacher shows the presentation, stopping at every slide, reading out and explaining the information given. He/She should read aloud all the English words on the slides to make students familiar with their pronunciation.
Students are encouraged to record in their notebooks the most interesting words, which they would like to remember.
Teacher asks students to observe what are some categories the borrowed words fall into (e.g. sports, technology, food, entertainment). Do students know any other loan words?
2.3. Consolidation of the target language – quiz Interaction forms: individual
Duration: 10 minutes
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Students do the quiz: they have to decide which language the given word comes from, i.e. question (from French), banana (from Spanish), slalom (from Scandinavian languages), comedy (from Greek), pizza (from Italian), zero (from Arabic), kindergarten (from German) and circus (form Latin).
3 Closing stage
Interaction forms: whole class Duration: 4 minutes
Teacher elicits from students the words they have remembered from the lesson. Which languages do they come from?
For homework, students can be asked to choose five vocabulary items and prepare sentences with them to show the words in context.
Additional information
The teacher advises students that the www.scholaris.pl website offers a computer
application in the form of a multimedia dictionary presenting correct pronunciation together with translations of words and phrases learned during the lesson.
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