General Objectives : St. will be able to
read the story about Las Fallas -Spanish Holiday, How it started ,Why do people
celebrate it and Sts. Will compare it to the Georgian Chiakokona , will find the differences and
similarities between them .
Language Objective : Sts. will practice
the adjective :older than, more
interesting than, as important as , as well as. Also Students will
practice new vocabulary.
Civic Objective: Sts. will be able to speak about holidays.
TIME
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TEACHER’S
ACTIVITY
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STUDENT
ACTIVITY
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COMMENTS
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11:15
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Which
is your favourite holiday ? work in pairs and speak about your favorite
holidays.
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With
some encouragement sts. say what their favorite holiday
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11:20
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Teacher
distributes the text students are reading about celebration Las Fallas, When
does it take place ? What do you know about the history ? How do people
celebrate this ?
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Teacher
monitors and corrects the pronunciation .
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11:30
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Teacher has Venn Diagram on the board .
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Students
speak about the differences and similarities between Las Fallas and Georgian
Chiakokona
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Sentence
starter on the board : In Spain Las Fallas is celebrated to show…. In Georgia
Chiakokona is celebrate…..These holidays are different because ….
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11:35
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Students
fill the diagram ……
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11:40
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Students
compare them …..and use as…adj..as,
adj…than , constuctions .
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11:50
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Teacher
distributes the handouts about the new vocabulary in the text
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Students
work in pairs and try to guess the meanings of the new words
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11:
55
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Teacher
analyses the whole lesson , gives feedback …..What do they learnt today ?
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The
whole class is involved
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Classroom is noisy and active .
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12:00
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Teacher
gives the homework assignment and asks students to write a paragraph : Why is
Las Fallas so important to Spanish …
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12:05
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The
class comes to an end .
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Handout 2 ……Match the words with their definitions.
1
feel or show
deep sorrow or regret for (someone or their death), typically by following
conventions such as the wearing of black clothes.
2
pasteboard or
stiff paper.
3
a person who
is enjoying themselves in a lively and noisy way. partygoer, merrymaker,
4
smile broadly,
especially in an unrestrained manner and with the mouth open. "Dennis appeared, grinning cheerfully" smile, smile
broadly, beam, smile from ear to ear, grin like a Cheshire
cat, smirk,be all smiles
5
a loud, explosive firework, typically wrapped
in paper and lit with a fuse.
6 of or relating to a
festival parties
are held and festive food is served"
7 a person's emotional
state or the atmosphere of a place as communicated to and felt by others."a lot of moody people giving off bad vibes" synonyms: feeling, vibration, atmosphere, sensation, energy
8 a low, continuous humming or murmuring sound, made by or similar to that made by an insect."the buzz of the bees" synonyms: hum, humming, buzzing, murmur, drone
9 a way of dealing with
something."we
need a whole new approach to the job" synonyms: method, procedure, technique, modus
operandi, MO, style, way, manner,strategy, tactic, system, means
come near or nearer to (someone or something)
in distance.
10 noun the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a
culmination or apex."the climax of her speech"
synonyms: peak, pinnacle, height, high(est) point, top, acme, zenith, culmination, crowning
point, crown, crest, highlight, high spot, high-water
mark
vocabulary:
mourn , climax,
approach , cardboard , firecracker, grins reveler , buzzes , festive, vibe.
Las
Fallas …….A Spanish Holiday
It’s March and I’m in Valencia, Spain’s third largest city,
with my new friend ,Jose.It’s I’m . All around us ,fireworks are going off and
the streets are full of noisy revelers
.’’Welcome to Las Fallas‘’, Jose grins .
Here you are going to see how Valencians party!
Seven hours later I understood what he meant .
Las Fallas ( the
bonfire) explodes over Valencia every March from the 12’th to the 19’th . It
takes the whole of the previous year to get organized and everybody joins in
the preparation. The city buzzes
with a festive vibe all week ,but like all good parties , it is at
night when people really get down to some series celebrating .
The tradition of Las
Fallas began in the 18’th century. At that time craftsmen used special candles
to light up the dark evenings while they were working. At the end of winter
they celebrated by burning all their waste material in a ceremony that brought
together people from all the neighbouring communities. Before burning the waste
material, they made it into life-like statues, and then dressed them up to look
like well-known but unpopular local characters .
Nowadays the statues ,
some of them over 30 metres tall, are made of cardboard and represent different aspects of modern Spanish
society. The whole of the previous year is spent fund-raising, planning and
constructing the monuments, some of which are worth over S 200.000. But they all go up in flames with
the maximum amount of fire and noise before the end of the festival.
The Valencians
like their guests to enjoy themselves, but after one hour’s sleep I am woken up
by the sound of firecrackers and a
bass band parading beneath my window. Valencia by day may be sleepier than
Valencia by night, but during Las Fallas there’s always something going on.
From the outskirts of the city, 200,000 girls and boys, wearing traditional
dress march into the centre of town bringing flowers to decorate the statue of
the Blessed Virgin.
The festival reaches its climax
on 19th March, a public holiday and St joseph’s day. This is the
night when the cardboard statues are burnt. As midnight approaches, a feeling of anticipation rises up from the streets and
hangs over the city. Firecrackers go off every second or two and midnight
passes in a shower of explosions. The last statue burns down and ends Las
Fallas. It is a sad moment, but the Valencians don’t have time to mourn the end of this year’s festival.
After all, they’re too busy planning for the next one.