Overall Objective: students will be able to read
about, discuss, define professions and places where people work.
Language Objective: students will know more about the
word stress in three-syllable words.
Civic Objective: Students will learn about snowboarding
history.
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Stage
of Lesson
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Activity
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Time
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Warm Up
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Students will be given questions
about jobs and they will have to answer them individually.
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5 min
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Activity 1
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Students say which jobs are
connected with certain places.
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4 min
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Activity 2
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Students match the jobs with their
definitions.
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4 min
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Activity 3
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Students listen to three syllable
words and decide which syllable is stressed.
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5 min
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Activity 4
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Students listen to the people talking
about their lives and decide what their jobs are.
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5 min
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Activity 5
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Pre-reading
Students will be shown a photo
that is connected to the text and they decide what the text is going to be
about.
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2 min
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Activity 6
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Students read the text and make a
sequence of events.
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15 min
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Activity 7
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Students answer the questions
about the text.
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5 min
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Questions
1) At what
age do people usually start working in Georgia?
2) At what
age do people usually retire in Georgia?
3) What are
some common jobs in Georgia?
4) What do
people in your family do?
5) What is
your dream job?
Reading Quiz
You will
have 1 minute to scan the text and answer the questions. When the time finishes
the teacher says “STOP”
1) When did
the history of snowboarding start?
a.
1929
b.
1960
c.
1965
d.
1977
2) Where is Sherman Poppen from?
a.
Utah
b.
Michigan
c.
Hawai
d.
Vancouver
3) What is ‘’snurfing”?
4) Where was the first snurfing competition
held?
a.
Utah
b.
Michigan
c.
Hawai
d.
Vancouver
5) Who was a stunt double for Roger Moore in
the movie “A view to kill”?
6) Which ski companies also produce snowboards?
7) In 5 or less words, what are you reading
about?
Snurfing USA
Snowboarding history starts in 1929,
when M.J.”Jack” Burcheff of Utah created a snowboard from a wooden plank.
Modern snowboarding, however, began
in 1965 when Sherman Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy
for his daughter by fastening two skis together. The “snowboard” had a rope so
the girl could controll her direction. The “snurfer” (combing snow and surfer)
was so popular among his daughter's friends that Poppen sold about a million
snurfers the next years.
In 1970s Poppen organized snurfing
competitions at a Michigan ski resort. A lot of enthusiasts arrived there from
all over the country. After this competition engineers started to change
designs of the snowboards. This continued for the next 10 years.
One of those early pioneers was Tom
Sims. As an eighth grader in Haddonfield, New Jearsey, in the 1960 he glued carpet to a wooden plank
and an aluminum sheeting to the bottom. Sims had his own line of snowboards in
1977 and then he became a snowboarding champion and a stunt double for actor
Roger Moore in a snowboarding scene fro the 1985 James Bond film “A view to a
Kill”.
However, by the end of the 1980s,
realizing that snowboarding was big business, ski producers such as K2, Atomic,
Rossighol and Mistral began producing snowboards. As equipment and skills
improved and organizations such as the United States of America Snowboard
Association and the International Snowboard Federation were founded to provide
instructions and competitions. So snowboarding became move and more popular.
Now all ski resorts all over the
world welcome snowboarders, and many of them have constructed special terrain
parks with jumps and other features that encourage boarders to hone their skills and snow their techniques.