Overall Objectives: Students will
develop awareness about symbols and will be able to describe the national symbol
Alaska’s flag, using the past simple.
Language Objective: Students will
review past simple(affirmative, negative, question, regular and irregular verbs.)
Civic Education Objective: Students
will learn a concept about symbols and will learn about and then describe
Alaska’s flag.
Curriculum Connection: Basic
Intermediate
Class Context and Needs: Secondary
students
Materials: A brief history about
Alaska’s flag, handouts ,photos board, papers, markers, mini white boards,
glue, pens, computer, projector.
Activities: Warm up ,mind map, reading, writing, speaking,
matching, shearing.
Assessment: Write sentences about Alaska’s flag by using the past simple.
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Overall Objective: Students will develop
awareness of symbols and will be able to describe a national symbol Alaska’s
flag, using the past simple.
Language Objective: Students will
review past simple(affirmative, negative, question, regular and irregular
verbs)
Civic Objective: students will learn
about and describe Alaska’s flag.
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Stage
of Lesson
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Activity
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Time
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Warm Up1
Warm up 2
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Students find tree pieces of paper
(handout1, handout2,handout3) in the classroom and they find in pairs connection
between these three pieces of paper. Teacher explains again what a
symbol is.
Teacher draws a mind map and asks students
to name words and phrases which are connected with the past simple and write
on the MWB individually and they speak about past simple tense.
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3min
3min
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Activity 1
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Teacher introduces that the topic
of the lesson is a flag of Alaska and asks question what they know about
Alaska and then shows them a slide show which includes short information
about Alaska.
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5min
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Activity 2
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Teacher gives them a big blue
board with infinitive and past simple forms of verbs on it and they have 8
stars. They must find in pairs both forms of the verbs and mark with the
stars. They must create themselves the
flag of Alaska. At last a teacher shows them a flag of Alaska and they
compare is their flag similar to Alaska’s flag or not. Teacher shows them a picture of
Benny Benson with his flag.(Alaska001)
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5min
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Activity 3
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Students read a history about
Alaska’s flag individually and put the verbs in brackets in the past simple.
Then they check each other’s work.
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6-7min
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Activity 4
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Teacher gives them small pieces of
stickers with words on it to make 6 questions in the past simple about the
text. They work in pairs and one of them presents the question and other student answers this
question then they change the roles.
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6-7min
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Activity 5
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Students make individually 5
sentences in the past simple about what they find out about Alaska’s flag
and they write also one question in
the past simple which they have about
this topic.
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10min
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Assessment
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Students present their sentences
on the board and a teacher asses their work according Rubric for Assessment Activity at the end
of the lesson.
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5min
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Handout 1
Books, desk, pen, pencil, schoolbag, poster……….
TV, chair, table, bad, sofa, bath……….
Flag, church, food, animals, statue,buildings…..
Handout 2
Symbols
Handout 3
Home
Country
School
Put the verbs in brackets in the
past simple:
An Alaska kid
who made History
Before 1927,Alaska (not
have)…………………… a flag. At the time Alaska (be)…………… still a territory, meaning
that the federal government controlled Alaska. Alaskans (have)……….. only the
U.S. flag. But in 1926, Territorial Governor George Parks (think)………………. Having
a flag would help Alaska (become)……………….. a state. He (persuade)……………………....
the Alaska American Legion to hold a contest open to all Alaska’s children
grades 7- 12 to design Alaska’s new flag. One of the students participating in
the contest (be)……………….. thirteen years old Benny Benson.
Benny Benson
(be)……………..born in Chignik, a small fishing village on the south shore of the
Alaska Peninsula. When Benny was 3 years old, his mother (die)………………..from
pneumonia and not long after this the family’s house (burn)……………….down in a
fire. His father (send)……….. Benny and his brother and sister to an orphanage
in Seward. Benny was a seventh-grader
when he (enter)……………….his flag design. From his little desk, Benny (create)…………….a
scene of flag – the seven stars of the Big Dipper and the guiding light of the
north star. Benny (explain)…………………. The scene for the judges:”The blue field is
for the Alaska sky and the forget-me-not, an Alaska flower. The North star is
for the future of Alaska. This dipper is for Great Bear- symbolizing strength.”
Benny’s flag (win)…………. And he was
awarded a watch and a $ 1,000 educational scholarship, which he (use)………….. to
study diesel mechanics. Benny’s flag became the official state flag and Alaskans
(fly)……………….the flag for the first time on July 9.1927. Benny Benson was a kid
who (make)………………… his mark on history
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