LESSON PLAN - ( date: 3rd & 4th June)

( optional: 10th & 11th June)

3rd YEAR ESB 10

STUDENT TEACHER : LAURA GONZALEZ

TOPIC: The Beatles, John Lennon

A SONG ABOUT PEACE AND LOVE : IMAGINE (JOHN LENNON)

CONTENTS

AXES CONTEXT TEXT

ENGLISH AND • Analysis of the

COMMUNICATION organization of
literary texts(
songs)
• Acknowledgement
ENGLISH AND THE of theme, message,
USE OF TECHNOLOGY time and space of
the lyrics.
• Pre- listening,
ENGLISH AND listening and after
LITERARY listening
DISCOURSE strategies.
• Reading
strategies.
• Participation in
real
communicative
exchanges.
• Interpretation of
messages through
the use of critical
thinking
• Writing of short
messages to make
others reflect on
Peace.
 LEXICAL ASPECT
• Specific
vocabulary
related to the
song.
• Contrasting
vocabulary or
ideas in the lyrics,
for example:
HEAVEN/ HELL
DIE/ LIVE
• Specific
vocabulary to
write messages.
• Ways of
addressing when
writing messages.

GRAMMATICAL
ASPECT
• Use of adjectives
and nouns
• Use of verbs in the
past to narrate
events

PHONOLOGICAL
ASPECT
• ARTICULATION
OF SOUNDS
WHEN
READING
• RHYTHM AND
INTONATION

OBJECTIVES

1. Give the students the opportunity to listen to a song in the classroom.

2. Make them aware of the message of the song between the lines.
3. Set them in time and space.
4. Make a comparison between the society in the song and nowadays.
5. Infer difficult vocabulary through examples and pictures.
6. Be able to participate in a quiet atmosphere.
7. Enjoy the class.
8. Communicate in real exchanges.
9. Write and express feelings.
10. Write short messages.
TASKS AND ACTIVITIES

1. Set the pupils in time and space with the use of pictures and newspaper articles
of the 1970´.
2. Listen to the song : “ Imagine” by John Lennon, without the lyrics.
3. Make them listen to find specific information in the song: heaven, hell, easy,
peace, dreamer, hard.
4. Ask the students to match the words and its definition according to the song:

To die Not difficult.

The world Person who dreams

Easy Feeling of companionship

Heaven A time when there is no war

or fighting

Peace
To stop living.

Share
Difficult to do or understand.

Dreamer
A place where god lives.

Hell
The Earth in which we live.

Hard To divide something so that

two or more people can have a
piece.
Brotherhood
5. Ask the students to find opposite or contrasting ideas in the lyrics:
• Heaven/ hell

6. Then give the students the same words all mixed up for them to find the
opposites and check their own work.
7. Play the song again and give them the lyrics written in small sheet of papers so
that they put the different parts in order while they listen :

You may say I´m a dreamer
But I´m not the only one
I hope some day you´ll join us
and the world will be as one.
You may say I´m adreamer
But I´m not the only one
I hope some day you´ll join
us and the world will be as
one
Imagine there´s no countries
It isn´t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
No religion too
Imagine all the people
 Living life in peace…

Imagine there´s no Heaven Imagine no possessions

It´s easy if you try I wonder if you can
No Hell below us No need for greed or hunger
Above us only sky A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people Imagine all the people
Living for today… Sharing all the world…

8. Play the song again and elicit ideas that are the message of the song: living in
peace, brotherhood, no dying, people sharing the world, no greed, no hunger, the
world as one…
9. Comment around the class about the elicited ideas.
10. Suggest students adding another stanza to the song, or simple completing
sentences with the student´s own ideas and thoughts: “ Imagine……………”
11. Write own messages to display in the school noticeboard.
12. Prepare a balloon party ( suelta de globos) with messages write on small cards
attached to the balloons.( if possible)

CLASS ASSESSMENT
• OF THE PROCESS: - oral communication
- written communication
- organization of the class
- individual and group problem solving skills
- planning and decision making
- self motivation
- self organization
• OF THE PRODUCT
- written presentation
- confidence in working