Title of Lesson: Food, family, diversity, Chinese culture
Topic: English As A Second Language.
Level: Educacion Primaria
Course: 6º
Age Group: 10 - 11
This lesson plan is designed around a short film: “Bao” This is a 2018 computer-animated short film written and directed by Domee Shi and produced by Pixar Animation Studios. It was released with Incredibles 2 on June 15, 2018. The film is about an aging and lonely Chinese-Canadian mother, suffering from empty nest syndrome, who receives an unexpected second chance at motherhood when she makes a dumpling (baozi) that comes to life as a boy. (Bao (film), 2019) Students to discuss about certain terminology, understand how to describe a storyline by using certain narratives, and use new vocabulary to describe characters and emotions.
Length: 45 minutes
Aim: By the end of this lessons, students will be able to learn about narrative tenses, will and going to for predictions and adjectives to describe character and emotions
Activity: Watching a short film, speaking and writing
Language: Narrative tenses, will and going to for predictions and adjectives to describe character and emotions.
References
Material/Link of the Video:
Sub-Aim 1:
Improve listening, analyzing and turn-taking skills
Sub-Aim 2:
Spark students’ interest about animation and 3D visualizations
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Task
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Student Interaction*
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The teacher shows the students the film
The language assistant asks students to discuss the following questions:
- What is woman doing at the beginning of the movie?
- What happens while the woman was eating?
- How did the woman feel in the beginning, middle and end of the movie?
- Describe the relationship between the woman and the dumpling in the
beginning? What happens later? Why?
- What did she do when the dumpling tries to leave with his girlfriend?
- Why was the woman sad at the end?
- What does the dumpling symbolize?
- What happens at the end of the movie?
- Does the film have a message?
The teacher explains the students that they will watch the animation movie again. However,
this time they need to write down the information based on these categories:
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Locations
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Characters
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Music
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Story
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Actions
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Emotions
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Message
The language assistant gets feedback from the whole class.
The teacher have the students talk about the short movie while using narrative
tenses, will and going to for predictions and adjectives to describe
characters and emotions.
Class reflection, Q&A session
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Interactive board/Watching the short movie
Interactive board/Digital board flashcards.
Interactive board/Watching the short movie
A volunteer to write each students’ notes and ideas about the film on
the blackboard.
Each student is to take turns and express his/her opinions
accordingly.
Lesson closure
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Assessment: Check each students’ conversational skills as well as
their knowledge for describing a person with proper adjectives.
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Lesson Closure: Class reflection, Q&A session to give students
the opportunity to express any doubts or uncertainties about what they have
learned.
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Homework:
1. Ask students to write
the story of the film using narrative tenses and as many adjectives as
possible to describe the characters and their emotions throughout the film.
2. Give you students this
homework (shown below) and ask them to complete it for the next class.
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The interaction patterns:
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= Teacher very active, students only receptive
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=Teacher very active, students mainly receptive
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=Teacher and students fairly equally active
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=Students active, teacher mainly receptive
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SS =Students very active, teacher only receptive
HOMEWORK:
1) In the beginning of the movie she
looks………..….
raging
batty
blest
somber
2) She cooks dumpling………..….
recurrently
never
whimsically
scarcely
3) She must feel………..….when he brought his fiancé to the house.
happy
downhearted
gleeful
obstinate
4) The dumpling was a ………..….version of her son.
dull
impressive
representative
tense
5) She must be………..….to see her son again.
nervy
doleful
morose
jubilant
6) His father ………..…. him about seeing her mother
forestalls
hinders
avers
sways
7) Towards the end, the son and the mother
ate the dumplings………..….
vociferously
tacitly
zestfully
strenuously
8) At the end of the movie, the whole
family is preparing dumplings………..….
dolefully
gloomily
elatedly
morosely
morosely
References
Bao
(film). (2019, January). Retrieved from Wikipedia :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bao_(film)