Overall Objective: Students will learn about the national
symbols, about well-known bridges.
Language Objective: Students will be able to practice pre-reading, while reading and post reading
activities about national symbols.
Civic Education Objective: Students will be able to identify and
describe types of bridges.
Curriculum Connection:
Class Context and Needs: There
are 28 students in the class. Elementary classroom. Basic level learners.
Materials: projector, computer, handouts, pens,
pencils, whiteboard, markers, sticky papers, etc.
Activities: grouping,
warm up, pre-reading, while reading, post reading activities.
Overall Objective: Students will learn about the national
symbol, about well-known bridges.
Language Objective: Students will be able to practice pre-reading, while reading and post reading
activities about national symbols.
Civic Objective: Students will be able to identify and
describe types of bridges.
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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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T greets the
groups of students and gives them questions like this: what is a symbol ?
What can be a symbol? Students
brainstorm in groups and give as many possible examples as they can (for
example: buildings, food, flags, statues, etc).
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5 min
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Activity 1
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T shows a
picture one of the well-known bridges and asks them to describe it in one
word. T uses word web while doing the activity.
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5 min
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Activity 2
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Teacher shows students pictures of famous
bridges and gives questions: Where are they? What kind of bridges are they?
Which is suspension bridge? Which is arch bridge? Etc.
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5 min
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Activity 3
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Teacher puts
K-W-L chart and Students fill in the K and W columns.
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5 min
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Activity 4
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T distributes
texts in groups , but students work in pairs. They read the texts and
underline unknown words or phrases. Ss try to make predictions about the
words and if they have difficulties they will find them in the dictionaries
prepared beforehand.
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12 min
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Activity 5
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As a while
reading activity they fill in graphic organizer. Teacher distributes the
handouts of graphic organizer. Students find specific information through the
text and fill in the organizer.
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10 min
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Assessment
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Students fill
in the L column. If there is time left students choose another symbol and
work in groups. They draw a symbol and make a poster. They may use questions from graphic organizer to
describe their symbols.
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5 min
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What do you know about the
topic?
(K)
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What do you want to know about the topic?
(W)
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What did you learn from the reading about the topic?
(L)
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Brooklyn Bridge
The Brooklyn Bridge was the first steel-cable suspension bridge in the world and was opened on Thursday, May 24th, 1883. The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge started in January, 1870 and finished in May, 1883. It was originally called the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, then became known as the East River Bridge. It was officially given the name in 1915.
The
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of Australia's most
well known and photographed landmarks. It is the world's largest (but not the
longest) steel arch bridge with the top of the bridge standing 134 metres above
the harbour. The Sydney Harbour Bridge
construction started in 1924 and took 1,400 men eight years to build at a cost
of 4.2 million.
Si-o-se Pol
Si-o-se Pol (The Bridge of 33 Arches) is a famous bridge in
the Iranian city of Isfahan. It is one of the most famous examples of Safavid(Persian)
bridge design. Under the rule of Shah Abbas I in 1602, the bridge was build of
bricks and stones. It is 295 meters long and 13.75 meters wide. It is said that
the bridge originally had 40 arches, however this number gradually reduced to
33.
The Akashi-Kaikyo
Bridge
The Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge,
also known as the Pearl Bridge, is the longest suspension bridge at 1,991
meters (6,532 feet) in the world. It stretches on the Akashi Strait in Japan and
connects Kobe on the mainland and Iwaya on Awayi Island. The bridge took almost
12 years to build and was opened for traffic in 1998. The central length was
originally only 1,990 meter but the Kobe earthquake on January 17, 1995, moved
the two towers so that it had to be increased by 1 meter.
The tower bridge
Tower Bridge is a suspension bridge in London, over the River
Thames. It is close to the Tower of London, which gives it its name and has
become an iconic
symbol of London. Construction started in 1886 and took
eight years to build. The bridge consists of two towers which are tied together
at the upper level by means of two horizontal walkways which are designed to
hold the forces of the suspended sections of the bridge.
The
Golden Gate Bridge
The
Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the strait
between San Francisco and Marin County to the north (USA). The architect of the
bridge was Joseph B. Strauss. The bridge took seven years to build, and was
completed in 1937. The Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge
span in the world when it was completed, and has become one of the most popular tourist attractions
in San Francisco and California. The
famous red-orange color of the bridge was specifically chosen to make the
bridge more easily visible through the thick fog that frequently covers the
bridge.
Golden
Gate
Bridge
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Tower
Bridge
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Brooklyn
Bridge
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Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge
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Si-o-Se Pol
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Sydney
Harbour
Bridge
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Where is it?
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When was it
constructed?
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What is it made of ?
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Size
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Other important facts
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