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Demo Lesson
Teacher’s name:
Grade:
Teaching 7 ‘a’:
Hours per week:
Years of studying English by 7 ‘a’:
School:
Veronika Bandurina
7 ‘a’ (12-14 years old)
2 years
3 lessons
6 years
Centre of Education #57
Lesson topic:
Date:
Number of students present:
Vegetarians vs Meat Eaters
Feb.18th, 2010
10
Aims:
To practise fluency speaking.
Sub aims:
To teach Ss debating techniques, to introduce the topic of Healthy Food, to practise listening for
specific information, to enlarge Ss’ vocabulary on the topic of the lesson.
Personal aims:
To keep instructions clear.
To organize different interaction patterns effectively.
To make every activity as student-centered as possible.
Materials:
Move Ahead 2 by Mary Tomalin,
cards with words,
video by Natalie (official site http://www.nutritionbynatalie.com) downloaded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2r-Am0Dkk and abridged by the teacher.
from
Assumptions and anticipated problems:
Due to the wide scope of the Ss they may be quite confident in discussing the topic but they may
lack essential lexis which is provided by the warm-up exercise and some necessary facts to base
upon in the debates correspondingly provided by the video.
Timetable fit:
This is a lead-in lesson into the topic of Healthy Food followed by a series of lessons on the
analysis of Ss’ favourite food, an insight into a nutritionist’s job and 2 projects: a diet for a
famous person and a wallpaper: Vitamins and their deficiency.
Lesson Plan
Stage
Lead-in+
prediction
+ preteaching
vocab
Speaking
Pre-teach
vocab
Stage Aims
Tim
e
Setting
10
context,
min
getting Ss
interested in
the topic,
predicting
what the
topic will
be,
activating
schemata,
pre-teaching
some vocab
which can
be necessary
for the
future tasks
To
brainstorm
ideas, to
prepare Ss
for debates
Pre-teach
vocab
before Ss
watch the
video to aid
understandi
ng
Procedure
T asks Ss if they are hungry or not. Then T suggests a movement
activity. T distributes a set of cards (one per each St) with the
following food items:
Junk food
Dairy products
Vegetarians
Fizzy drinks
Meat eaters
Protein
Healthy
Plants
Diet
Disease
Nutrition
(for the most difficult words there may be a synonym or a short
explanation in brackets)
and asks Ss to explain the items to each other randomly
exchanging the cards.
T: I give each of you a card. On the cards some words are written.
You have to explain the words to each other. This is how you are
going to do it. (Show)(To a Student): I give you the card and I’ve
got the card. I say: Everything we eat. (S answers: Food). Then
you explain your word and we exchange cards. Then you go to
some other person and explain your new word to him and he…
(elicit the future instructions). Try to explain all the 10 words.
Ss preteach the necessary vocab to each other, T monitors.
Feedback – T asks Ss which words they’ve got and asks for their
meaning. T elicits the topic of the lesson and introduces the
concept of being FOODWISE.
T: So what’s the topic of today’s lesson? (Ss: Food). T: But not
only food, what kind of food? (Ss: healthy) T: Ppl who eat healthy
food are nowadays often called foodwise. What is being foodwise?
T elicits using word-building. Food+wise.
7min T: And if a person is foodwise the most popular trend nowadays is
being a… (T elicits vegetarian)
What is the main credo of Vegs? (T writes on board). Now you will
work in pairs and answer a question Why do people become
Vegetarians? You come up with 1 idea, write in on this card and
stick it with this magnet to the board (Show).
Feedback. T asks Ss to read their pair points and discuss if they
agree to each other’s ideas or not.
T: Opposed to all vegetarians are people who… (T elicits meateaters)
3min Herbivore – There’s a special name for people who are
vegetarians, it’s…
What do they eat? (plants)
Carnivore – People who eat meat are called… can you guess?
Omnivore – Can you guess how we call people who eat both?
DNA – T writes on board and elicits the meaning.
T: What are you by the way, herbivore/carnivore/omnivore?
Intera
ction
patter
ns
T-Ss
S-S
T-Ss
S-S
T-Ss
T-Ss
Watching
video
Debates
Practise
listening for
specific
information,
Give Ss
necessary
facts for
debating,
Delegate
responsibilit
ies
Speaking
for fluency,
practicing
debating
skills
10
min
15
min
T: If there (show vegs part) we answered the question WHY
BECOME ONE? In Meat Eaters part we will answer the question
WHY STAY ONE?
T: For that we are going to watch a video where a lady who’s
name is Natalie will tell you the reasons for that.
Here you’ll concentrate on three main points:
(T writes on board)
1. Statistics
2. the Bible
3.Animals closest to us
CCQ
- Are you writing anything while watching? (Yes)
- What question are you answering? (Why stay one)
- What points are you concentrating on?
Ss watch the video and answer the given questions
Feedback:
T asks one S to conduct the feedback.
T: Can I ask …… to come here? For several minutes he/she is
going to be a teacher and he/she will ask you all these questions
and write the answers. ….be a kind teacher.
Ss answer the questions.
T: There’s a great contradiction between these two parties and
guess what we are going to do next…? (Ss: debate).
T: Yes, we are going to have debates on the topic: LET’S GO
VEG!
T divides the class into 3 groups: Meat, Veg and We’ll see. The
parties write points to support their teams.
T: Now we have 2 opposing parties: Meat who say that meat is the
best product in the world and Vegs who say that everybody should
eat vegetables and go green. I give a piece of paper to each party
now and you write as many points as you can to support your
party. I give you three minutes for that.
While the parties are writing T comes to ‘We’ll see’ team and
explains to them that they are the audience who judge the parties,
write down the strongest arguments during the debates and in the
end give their feedback as to whose arguments were stronger.
T explains the procedure of the debates.
T: Listen to the procedure of the debates. The first party gives
their argument, the opposing one gives a counter argument and
the first party can answer to that (scheme on board).
So how many counterarguments does each argument have? (2).
Then we pass on to the next argument of the other party and do the
same.
Don’t forget to use these phrases (on the board)
I agree to that but…
It’s true but…
You are right but…
Ss have debates. T is a bailiff.
Feedback is given by the party ‘We’ll see’.
T says the final word and gives homework.
HW: prepare a 3-min talk about your favourite food and analyze
its (+and –) pros and cons.
T: Thank you for the lesson. See you tomorrow.
T-Ss
S-Ss
T-Ss
Ss-Ss
T-Ss
Ss-Ss
BOARDWORK
Foodwise
Vegetarians
VS
No meat
Why become one?
Herbivore=
Eat plants
Carnivore=
Eat animals
Omnivore=
Eat plants+
animals
DNA=ДНК
Meat Eaters
Meat
Why stay one?
Kids’ ideas
Statistics
kids' answers
of why
The Bible
after watching
one can
become
Animals closest to us
the video
a vegetarian
DEBATES “Let’s go Veg!”
I agree to that but…
That’s true but…
You are right but…
A1
A2
A1
C/A2
C/A1
C/A2
C/A1
C/A2
C/A1
Video script:
Nutrition by Natalie
Is Man Vegetarian or Meat eater?
Modern Man
If you were just to look at current times and just to look at the present diet only about 3 to 4 per cent of … you
know…of all societies of all cultures of all countries are vegetarian and even a smaller portion than that, about 1,5
percent are vegan which is strict adherence to only plants based foods and no animal products and no animals
whatsoever. So about 97% of the entire population of the world is currently omnivore which is the combination of
plant foods and animal foods. So… the fact is that current diet of this world right now is omnivores. That’s not
debatable, that’s just a fact of our present diet in the world. And so now we are going to be talking about what
actually the diets have looked like in the past.
Historic Man
Now if you are a historian or a religious scholar you know that scriptures such as the Bible talked about people
eating lamb, meat, animal products, so those types of things are in a praise that people have been omnivores in
biblical times. And then if you look at Hindi scripture which some historians believe dates back to 2500 BC... In
their scripture they talk about not being meat eaters. Now if it mentions not being meat eaters in their religious
scripture it sound like to me that obviously there were meat eaters in that time. We are actually gonna go even
further back than that, further back from even the recorded history that we have.
Prehistoric Man
I have an article here written by Dr. John McCartel and he is a vegetarian and he’s also studied apes. And so he
has written this article and the title of the article is ‘Humans are Omnivores’. Now if you were to look at DNA our
human DNA is actually the most similar to the DNA in pigs and chimpanzees. And guess what? Pigs and
chimpanzees are both omnivores – they eat both plants and animals and animal products. And they are
opportunistic – so they eat whatever is available whether it be plants or whether it be animals and animal products.
As far back as it can be traced clearly the archeological record indicates an omnivores diet for humans that
included meat. Our ancestry is among the hunters and gatherers from the beginning. Once domestication of food
sources began it included both animals and plants. And then his conclusion was that humans are classic examples of
omnivores and all relevant autonomical traits. There’s no basis in anatomy or physiology for the assumption that
humans are preadapted to the vegetarian diet. For that reason the best argument in support of a meat-free diet
remain ecological, ethical and health-concerned.