Week 3 Task 3

Task 3. A lesson plan.

TOPIC OF THE LESSON
 The sights of  New York city

DIGITAL RESOURCES

1.   http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/2009/12/night-at-museum-battle-of-smithsonian.html
2. http://woices.com/explore/map#coords=%2840.7541492563,%20-73.9817619324%29&z=14
3. http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/ 

A computer laboratory: computers, earphones.

CLASS LEVEL

Intermediate 

 TIME FRAME

 1.5 hours

LESSON GOALS
 To develop listening and speaking skills.
 To develop skills in searching the exact information and presenting it as a table.
STEPS

The teacher starts the lesson with a talk about  major sights of any city. Students create a  wordweb about sights of any city.

                                 

A teacher  says a few words about New York city and its  major sights and organize  the work with the video and the worksheet from the site

http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/2009/12/night-at-museum-battle-of-smithsonian.html 

 Students create a  table:

                                                            Sights of New York (Manhattan)

                                      Central Park                                                  Times Square

                          -  park at the center of Manhattan           -"The Crossroads of the World"

                          -                                                             -

 The teacher offers the materials of the site "woices" to enhance the knowledge about these sights( The Central Park and Times Square) and to fill in the table.

http://woices.com/explore/map#coords=%2840.7541492563,%20-73.9817619324%29&z=14

These sites might be useful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_square   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park

The teacher offers the site http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/ and  invited the children to find the stories told by people living in Manhattan.

At the end of the lesson students tell  short stories about these sites.

HOME-TASK

To describe any other sights of New York city, filling in a similar table.

Task 4 I would like to list the resources I will definetely use in teaching. http://moviesegmentstoassessgrammargoals.blogspot.com/
This site  is useful  for learning  some Grammar material. http://woices.com/
The site is wonderful for  feeling the atmosphere of the places. http://www.smories.com/
Little funny stories and poems performed by  children can be interesting for  young learners.
http://www.listen-and-write.com/audio/level

The leaners of any level will be interested by the site.

http://www.amnyinteractive.com/project/2008/NYC-Accent/
 The site  can be interesting for young researchers.

http://wordia.com/Young learners will be excited  to try such activities.

http://www.mediabistro.com/10000words/3-unique-ways-to-record-edit-and-publish-your-audio_b980It's a great site, helping not only to listen but also to record one's audio.