LESSON PLAN Textbook: Generation 2000 Teacher: Silvana Soritau Level: Primary, 2 hours /week 6th grade Unit

38, Reading Topic: The Amish Time: 50 minutes Aims: - To introduce new vocabulary - To get the students interested in the lifestyle of another culture - The students will find the essential information - To gat the students to cooperate in order to perform a written task Skills: reading, writing, speaking, listening Classroom interaction: individual work, pair and group work Resources: Textbook, handouts, blackboard Activity 1: Warm-up The teacher checks the homework The teacher asks pupils if they know any groups of people who are have a different way of life than their own. (religious groups, ethnic groups, etc) this should stimulate the students imagination and their knowledge of the surrounding world. Individual work 8 minutes Activity 2: Pre-reading The teacher asks the students to look at the picture on page 70 and describe the people in the picture, say if they think it is an old picture or a contemporary one, argue why The teacher tells them that those people are called Amish and asks if the pupils have any knowledge of this community. The teacher shares some extra information with the pupils. Individual work 5 minutes Activity 3: Reading The students start reading the text out loud (the teacher pays attention to pronunciation) and find any unknown words. The teacher writes the unknown words on the blackboard. The students are divided in groups of four, each group being assigned a paragraph from the lesson. The students have to read them carefully. The teacher hands out pieces of paper to each group, containing questions related to each paragraph. The students have to answer orally. The teacher corrects any mistakes. 22 minutes Activity 4: Post reading The teacher gives the students a few minutes to look through the entire text and gives the students a true/false exercise concerning the entire text. The teacher writes the sentences on the blackboard. Pair work 8 minutes Activity 5: Follow-up The teacher asks the students if they would enjoy such a life and give reasons why/ why not.individual work The teacher gives marks for the active students. 5 minutes Activity 6 Homework assignment: finding all the IF clauses in the text 2 minutes 1

1. a. Where does the family in the picture live? b. What is their occupation? c. Where did the Amish come from in the 1700s?

2. a. What kind of clothes do the Amish wear? b. What language do the Amish speak? c. Do the Amish have electricity and water mains in their homes?

3. a. How do the Amish spend a lot of time? b. What do the Amish build together? c. What is sisters days?

4. a. When does Amish schooling end? b. How many teachers are there usually in a school? c. What are the children taught?

5. a. Do the Amish have churches? b. When and where do they meet to worship? c. What happens if the Amish break the most important rules?

6. a. How many Amish people are living in North America? b. Do the Amish consider technology to be a bad thing? c. Do the Amish have cars, telephones or tractors?

True or false? a. The Amish moved to America to escape from religious persecution. b. The Amish live in small families. c. The Amish are not very helpful to each other. d. The Amish do not think that university education in necessary. e. The Amish punish the members who do not obey the rules. f. The Amish think that technology would harm life in their community. 2