DANIELLE & DAVID HOBBIES LESSON PLAN: BACK-to-the-BEACH

Format: PPP
Grade Level:

THAILAND ESL LEVEL High School Ages 13-17

Subject: ESL

INSTRUCTION & HOBBIES FOR THE INTERMEDIATE CLASSROOM

Prepared By:

FOREIGN INSTRUCTOR OF ESL. DATE: May 1, 2012 LESSON NAME: DANIELLE & DAVID HOBBIES LESSON PLAN
Education Standards Addressed

Overview & Purpose

Today we are going to use a lesson plan previously taught in Shanghai, China. The plan What state/county education standards that this lesson is to elicit daily conversation about student hobbies in relation to the effective practices satisfies. of creating ESL dialogue between Thai students. The students will learn about to speak English more effectively. This will be useful in establishing proper pronunciation.

Lesson Plan Objectives

Teacher Guide

Student Guide

Materials & Notes

Objectives

(Specify skills/information that will be learned.)

FORMAT OF THE LESSON PLAN: PHOTOS OF HAWAII'S GARBARGE PATCH (to be used for discussion) WELCOME STUDENTS PRESENT ICE-BREAKER CONVERSATIONS STUDENTS WILL LEARN WRITE ON THE WHITEBOARD: ABOUT AMERICAN WHAT IS A HOBBY & WHAT ARE SUMMER/BEACH HOBBIES YOUR FAVORITE HOBBIES FOR AGE GROUP 13-17 WHILE MENTIONING THEIR SINGLE OUT ONE STUDENT TO OWN THAI HOBBIES RECITE HIS/HER HOBBIES TO THE WHILE DISCUSSING CLASS BEACH HOBBIES PASS OUT WORKSHEETS STUDENTS WILL LEARN DISCUSS WHAT LINKING IS ABOUT OCEAN POLLUTION AND HOW THE TEACHER WILL BE STUDENTS WILL LISTENING FOR PROPER COMPARE THEIR HOBBY ENUNCIATION DURING LIST W/HOBBIES SIMILAR PRONUNCIATION TO THOSE OF THE SAME AGE GROUP BUT FROM DIVIDE STUDENTS INTO PAIRS WESTERN CULTURES TO WORK ON WORKSHEETS FOR STUDENTS WILL SPEAK 10 MINUTES ALOUD ABOUT CULTURAL HAVE STUDENTS STAND RULES AT THE BEACHES IN BEFORE THE CLASS AND RECITE THE USA AND THAI THEIR 10-MINUTE EVALUATION OF BEACHES THEIR HOBBIES STUDENTS WILL
DISCUSS BEACH WEAR STUDENTS WILL DISCUSS GAMES & SPORTS PLAYED ON VARIOUS BEACHES STUDENTS WILL DISCUSS TRAVELS TO FOREIGN BEACHES, IF APPLICABLE

Materials Needed MARKERS WHITEBOARD LAPTOP w/VIDEO PENCILS & PENS HOBBIES LIST USA HOBBIES LIST THAI HOBBIES LIST USA HOLIDAYS LIST THAI HOLIDAYS LIST USA CULTURE DVD USA SONGS DVD USA NEWS MEDIA ARTICLE/HOBBIE S POWERPOINT PRESENTATION A DAY AT THE BEACH PHOTOS A DAY AT THE BEACH Q&A HANDOUT BEACH VIDEO LIST FOR DISCUSSION LIST OF RULES FOR THE BEACH PHOTO OF BEACH

RULES FROM MIAMI, SAN DIEGO, MAUI, CHICAGO, FORT LAUDERDALE & MYRTLE BEACHES

Information
(Give and/or demonstrate necessary information)

Articles & worksheets used were from Breaking News English and Hawaii Hit by Great Plastic Garbage Patch (26th April, 2010) Verification: Check for student understanding at these checkpoints: 1) after pronunciation, 2) after reciting topic words and 3) at recapping the lesson

Their were no textbooks offered in this lesson and students will be able to freely associate valued talk-time with their current knowledge of the news media Students must verify their knowledge of the lesson by passing the ORAL EXAMINATION at the end of the lesson. Other Resources
(e.g. Web, books, etc.)

Verification
(Steps to check for student understanding)

Activity
(Describe the independent activity to reinforce this lesson)

STUDENTS WILL TAKE HOME & READ, EXTRA VIDEOS FOR THE NEXT Hawaii Hit by Great Plastic Garbage SESSON: USA's PLANET EARTH & Patch (26th April, 2010) THE BLUE PLANET SERIES

ESL FUN PODCAST LEARNING ENGLISH THE FUN WAY

Summary

(Summarize the lesson in the next grid) BEACHES,

THE WORLD WILL LEARN TO RESPECT STUDENTS WERE FASCINATED OVER Additional Notes HOWEVER, WHAT IS THE THE TOP TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL HUMAN FOOTPRINT THAT WE WILL BEACHES IN THE WORLD & VOWED TO LEAVE? VISIT THEM.

Part 1 PRESENTATION
(30% of time)
(warmup & ice breakers to elicit student talk)

Activity #1 (Ice Breaker)

(walk around the room & ask students: 1 First Question: When you think of a beach what comes to mind? 2 Second Question: What is paradise?

Activity #2
(ask the class as a whole) 1 What is a hobby? What is something that 'just passes the time' compared to a hobby? What are your favorite hobbies? Are any of your hobbies related to the beach? 2 Introduce hobbies at the beach, the culture of beaches, going to the beach, beach life and attitudes about relaxing at the beach. Use the laptop & projector to show the Back-to-the-Beach series + short segment on

Hawaii Hit by Great Plastic Garbage Patch (26th April, 2010) 3 4 5 6 Take a classroom vote on how many students spend a lot of time at the beach. Take a classroom vote on what kinds of hobbies the students enact at the beach. Are you aware of ocean pollution? How and why did you become interested in ocean pollution? Why is it important to embrace GREEN & UNIVERSAL GREEN, Green Earth or Earth Day? CLASSROOM HOBBIES AT THE BEACH (POLL) (Eliciting) Asking & Answering Questions About Hobbies/Beach Pollution

1 Why do you like performing your hobby at the beach? _____________ (asking why) 2 When do you like surfing at the beach?_______________ (asking when) 3 Where do you think beach garage is at its worst?____________ (asking where)

Activity #3 PRACTICE (40% of time)

What are the garbage patches?

The garbage patch, as referred to in the media, is an area of marine debris concentration in the North Pacific Ocean. The name garbage patch has led many to believe that this area is a large and continuous patch of easily visible marine debris items such s bottles and other litter akin to a literal blanket of trash that should be visible with satellite or aerial photographs. Much of the debris mentioned in the media is that of derelict fishing nets, floatable plastic bottles and other debris. The students, after seeing photos and truly understanding garage patches and beach pollution, answer the T/F questions on Worksheet # 1. The students then ask & answer the questions in repetitive form to one another after the class has been divided into two teams.

Activity #4

PRODUCTION
(40% of time)
The students continue to practice in teams the material in Worksheets #3 while focusing heavily on the topic words on the right margin. The topic words are: confined, firsthand, researcher, huge, recent, team, footprint, litter, longer, chain, reported, status, washing, particles, debris and remote. Additionally, each student will focus on these topic words:

PAIR WORK
(extra pairing of ideas)
1) Students will pair-off and talk amongst themselves using these topic words: recent discovery / garbage patches / islands / plastic / pollution / shocking / footprint / beaches / paradise / tours / conservationists / sand / Wikipedia / Pacific Ocean/ volleyball and surfing / seashells / tide

The students are called individually to the front of the class to recite either of the two short paragraphs on Worksheets #2 and #3.

Activity #5 PAIR WORKSHEETS

1) Back-to-the-Beach Series: Introduce this series on DVD to the classroom 2) Discuss the worksheets below & complete worksheet #1 together with the class 3) Assign worksheets #2 & #3 for HOMEWORK

Activity #6 & Activity #7 Part 2 LINKING

Activity #6 & #7
1 2 3 4 5 Chines Chines donut and curry chicken bun I have a Chines donut and curry chicken bun I should have Chines donut and curry chicken bun I should have a Chinese donut and curry chicken bun

Student Talk-time:
The students will practice reciting 1-5 above while on the whiteboard the teacher will express the knowledge of linking and how acknowledging the value of listening to their own sounds while they are talking.

Student Q&A Grammar Rules Time:

Quick Grammar Checkpoints

A Thai student asked in a previous lesson: What are the parts of speech in the English language? Response:
There are nine, (9) parts of speech. - Nouns - Pronouns - Verbs

- Prepositions - Adverbs - Adjectives - Conjunctions - Articles - Interjections

Descriptions of each w/examples:

- Noun. A noun is a person, place, or thing. Ex. It's time to go back to the beach. - Pronoun. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. He is a teacher. - Verb. A verb is a word that supports action. I will be hitting the volleyball over the net. - Preposition. Prepositions denote relationships between certain words in a sentence. My swimsuit is on the clothesline. - Adverb. An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or other adverbs. Let's go time traveling. - Adjective. An adjective is a word that describes a noun or pronoun. She sang beautifully. - Conjunction. Conjunctions join words together. They closed the beach and they closed the mall. - Article. An article is a word that precedes a noun. The ball floated out with the tide. - Interjection. Interjection are used to express strong feeling or emotion. Strike!

Conclusion
The students learned what their hobbies were. They also learned about western hobbies related to the beach and benefit ed from a multiple lesson which also exposed them to the subject of ocean pollution and the Hawaiian garbage patch. Students observed the importance of beach rules present at most beaches, beach safety and reveled in their new knowledge of Universal Green.

WORKSHEET # 1 (Worksheets provided by: Breaking News English & Sean Banville) BEFORE READING / LISTENING

TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F).
a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. Scientists have discovered Hawaiians use plastic in their gardens. The garbage patches do not move and look to be permanent. The worlds first ocean garbage patch was found in the Indian Ocean. A garbage patch discoverer encouraged people to leave footprints. People are washing tons of plastic bottles on Hawaiis beaches. The article says the word Hawaii makes you think of paradise. An analysis of a Hawaiian beach found more plastic than sand. Wikipedia says Kamilo Beach is best known for marine life. T/F T/F T/F T/F T/F T/F T/F T/F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1. 2 3.

discovery huge trash

a. b. c.

rubbish proves harm

4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

single firsthand damage conjures up remote confirms marine

d. e. f. g. h. i. j.

creates enormous sea unearthing in person isolated sole

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

1. 2 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

the world now has two a huge floating island of trash plastic ocean pollution is it is not confined Its shocking to see it tons of plastic is washing Hawaii conjures up He went on a tour more plastic particles than known for its accumulation of

a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j.

to a single patch up on the beaches and litter firsthand images of paradise a global problem plastic marine debris ocean garbage patches of the remote beach grains of sand

WORKSHEET # 2

WHILE READING / LISTENING

GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text. A ____________ discovery shows the world now has two ocean garbage patches. These are ____________ areas of the ocean which have a huge floating island of trash and ____________. The first garbage patch was discovered in the Pacific by ocean ____________ Charles Moore in 1997. The new one was found in the Atlantic by a husband and wife ____________ Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen. We found the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch, said Ms Cummins. Our job now is to let people know that plastic ocean pollution is a global problem. Unfortunately, it is not ____________ to a single patch, she added. Ms Cummins described her sadness at what humans are doing to the ocean: Its shocking to see it ____________ .Weve managed to leave our ____________ really everywhere.

confined firsthand researcher huge recent team footprint litter

The BBC has just ____________ on the damage the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is doing. Tons of plastic is ____________ up on the beaches of Hawaii. This island ____________ is world famous for having some of the worlds most beautiful beaches. The very name Hawaii conjures up images of paradise islands. No ____________. The BBCs presenter Simon Reeve says Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii has been described as the worlds dirtiest beach. He went on a tour of the ____________ beach with a local conservationist. They analysed what was on the beach and found more plastic ____________ than grains of sand. A Wikipedia search confirms the beachs new ____________. The website says, it is known for its accumulation of plastic marine ____________ from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

longer chain reported status washing particles debris remote

WORKSHEET # 3 A ______________________ the world now has two ocean garbage patches. These are huge areas of the ocean which have a huge floating island ______________________. The first garbage patch was discovered in the Pacific by ocean researcher Charles Moore in 1997. ______________________ in the Atlantic by a husband and wife team Anna Cummins and Marcus Eriksen. We found the Great Atlantic Garbage Patch, said Ms Cummins. ______________________ people know that plastic ocean pollution is a global problem. Unfortunately, ______________________ a single patch, she added. Ms Cummins described her sadness at what humans are doing to the ocean: Its shocking to see it firsthand.Weve ______________________ footprint really everywhere.

The BBC has ______________________ damage the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is doing. Tons of plastic is washing up on the beaches of Hawaii. This island ______________________ for having some of the worlds most beautiful beaches. The very name Hawaii ______________________ paradise islands. No longer. The BBCs presenter Simon Reeve says Kamilo Beach on the island of Hawaii ______________________ the worlds dirtiest beach. He went on a tour of the remote beach with a local conservationist. They analysed what was on the beach and found more plastic particles ______________________. A Wikipedia search confirms the beachs new status. The website says, it is known for its accumulation ______________________ from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

BOARDWORK

Grading scale for ESL students oral exams:

A (100-90%) B (80-70%) C (60-50%) D (30%) F (20%)

CRITERIA TASK COMPLETION

LEVEL 1 Information was either missing, not needed or off task.

LEVEL 2

LEVEL 3

LEVEL 4

Task was Task was Task was completed, but completed well. completed very could be better. well. All of the Some information Most of the information is information was needed needed and and on-task. was needed some was on- and on-task. task. Little organization of ideas. Paragraphs and sentence markers were used, but with some errors. Adequate (fair) use of vocabulary. Some spelling errors persist. Adequate (fair) use of grammar and punctuation. Some errors still present. Good organization of ideas. Good use of paragraphs and sentence markers. Excellent organization of ideas. Excellent use of paragraphs and sentence markers.

ORGANIZATION

Poor organization of ideas. No paragraphs and sentence marker errors.

VOCABULARY & SPELLING

Poor use or range of vocabulary. Many spelling errors. Poor use of grammar and punctuation. Many errors.

Good use of vocabulary. A few spelling errors.

Excellent use of spelling. Very few spelling errors.

GRAMMAR & PUNCTUATUION

Good use of grammar and punctuation. A few errors still present.

Excellent use of grammar and punctuation. Very few errors are present

FUN & LEARNING NOTE for the DAY

An example of respelling for a Thai student might be:

Lets just get back to the beach for a quick swim. Letz jes get back to duh beeCH for a quiK sweM.