Level: A2 and up
It’s been a while since the last class with Pink Panher. I planned this one for our last lesson this semster with my 5th graders.
A little bit of vocab: https://quizlet.com/_8fnq6y?x=1qqt&i=sje7e
Some grammar: Practice Past Simple. Introduce Present Perfect or even Comparative and Superlative forms of adjectives. (dumb, dumber, the dumbest)
Above all, have fun during the discussion on features of great teachers.
Level: B2 and up
This is a worksheet based on 2008 movie ‘Summerhill’ about Summerhill School. It is a boarding school in Suffolk, England. It was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around. It is run as a democratic community; the running of the school is conducted in the school meetings, which anyone, staff or pupil, may attend, and at which everyone has an equal vote. These meetings serve as both a legislative and judicial body. Members of the community are free to do as they please, so long as their actions do not cause any harm to others, according to Neill’s principle “Freedom, not Licence.” This extends to the freedom for pupils to choose which lessons, if any, they attend. It is an example of both democratic education and alternative education.
Students call Summerhill the happiest school in the world.
Check out why:
Link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9BgrGiIYc0
Introduce the two main characters Ryan and Maddy with the poster and then just follow the worksheet questions.
I was too lazy to do the Answer Key for this one. Hope you manage 🙂
Level: A2 and up
Merriam-Webster announced that it has chosen “they” as the 2019 word of the year. The singular “they” is a pronoun used to refer to a person whose gender identity is nonbinary.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/woty2019-top-looked-up-words-they
I was really inspired by the story and decided to create a lesson plan that would allow some discussion on how my students perceive gender roles.
All I needed was an authentic piece of language that I could use as conversation starter. It turned out that Ashley Wilde did just that.
The Gender Tag Project is a YouTube “tag” video created by Ashley that encourages individuals to answer a set of ten prompts relating to their experience with gender in the form of a YouTube video. The Gender Tag videos are compiled in a YouTube playlist called “The Gender Tag Project,” found by clicking here.
Start the lesson with a discussion: ‘Why do you think THEY became the word of the year 2019?’
Watch the They/them pronouns video together. With more advanced groups you might want to read the Merriam-Webster article.
Follow with a general discussion on how the tradiotional gender roles have changed over the last 10, 20, 50 years.
Then distribute the handouts and invie your SS to answer the questions.
don't overthink shit 