#5 Third Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / The most memorable gift / Grade 10

#5 Third Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / The most memorable gift / Grade 10

Overall Objective: Students will be able to describe the most memorable gifts they have given to the people they love, guess the meanings of new vocabulary from the context, fill in the gaps using new vocabulary, talk about the best present they have ever received, express what did they feel at that moment.

Language Objective: Students will be able to describe the most memorable gifts they have given and received using new vocabulary and expressions connected to the text.

Civic Education Objective: Students will be able to talk about the most memorable gift and express what did they feel at that moment.

Grade: 10

Curriculum Connection: English curriculum.

Class Context and Needs : A 2 level. Secondary students. 15 students. No disabled person, no students with special needs.

Materials: Handouts, papers, pens, board.

Activities: Brainstorming, pair-work, team- building.

Assessment: Asking students to think about the most memorable gift they have ever received and talking about this using new vocabulary and expressions connected to the text.

Overall Objective: Students will be able to describe the most memorable gifts they have given to the people they love, guess the meanings of new vocabulary from the context, fill in the gaps using tis vocabulary, talk about the best present they have ever received, express what did they feel at that moment. Language Objective: Students will be able to describe the most memorable gifts they have ever received using new vocabulary and expressions connected to the text. Civic Objective: Students will be able to talk about the most memorable gift and express what did they feel at that moment.
Stage of Lesson	Activity	Time
Warm Up	Brainstorming opinions about the word ,,gift”	5 min
Activity 1	Asking students to describe the most memorable gifts they have given to the people they love. They have to ask and answer these questions in pairs: Do you buy special gifts to your family members, friends or relatives? When do you buy it, for Christmas, New Year or birthday? What was the most memorable gift you have given to the people you love?	7 min
Activity 2	Distributing handouts containing the story by O. Henry “The gift of the Magi”. Students have to read the text individually and guess the meanings of underlined words from the context.	10min
Activity 3	Students have to fill in the gaps individually using the vocabulary, which was underlined in the text.	4min
Activity 4	Checking these exercises in pairs.	2 min
Activity 5	Team- building activity. Distributing papers containing parts of the sentences. Each student has to choose one paper, read and look for the other parts to make a sentence about gifts. Students with the parts of one sentence build a team. If the parts are in the correct order, each group builds a triangle, a circumference or a square using these papers in groups. In each sentence is a highlighted word. One person from each group makes a presentation of the sentence and sticks the highlighted word under the sentence written on the board: The gift is valuable, when it is given with… Sentences: 1) The best gifts come from the heart, not the store. 2) The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. 3) The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love.	7min
Assessment	Students have to think about the most memorable gifts they have received and talk about it using new words and expressions given on the board: It was at Christmas/New Year/ my birthday… I felt happy when…That is a special gift for me because…I love surprises and that’s why…I will never forget the day when I…This gift is valuable, because…	10min

Assessment rubric

	9- 10	7- 8	5- 6	1-4
Describing  the most memorable gifts they have given to the people they love.	Can describe the most memorable gifts without mistakes.	Tries to describe the most memorable gifts.	Tries to describe but makes mistakes.	Can’t describe the most memorable gift.
Guessing the meanings of the new vocabulary from the context.	Can guess the meanings of underlined words from the context.	Tries to guess the meanings of underlined words from the context.	Tries to guess the meanings but makes mistakes.	Can’t guess the meanings.
Filling in the gaps using new vocabulary.	Can fill in the gaps using new vocabulary.	Tries to fill in the gaps with some mistakes.	Tries to fill in the gaps but makes many mistakes.	Can’t fill in the gaps.
Talking about the best present they have ever received using new vocabulary and expressions.	Can talk about the present best present he/she has ever received using new vocabulary without mistakes.	Tries to talk about the best present he/she has ever received with some mistakes.	Tries to talk about the best present he/she has ever received, makes many mistakes.	Can’t talk about the best present.

                             
                                 “ The gift of the Magi  “  

  

   One dollar and eighty- seven cents. That was all. Della counted this money three times. And the next day would be Christmas. She stood by the window and looked with no interest. Tomorrow would be Christmas day and she had one dollar eighty- seven with which to buy Jim a gift. Suddenly she left a window and went over to the mirror. She looked at her hair, tied on top of her head. Quickly she pulled it down and let it fall to its complete length. Jim and Della Young were very proud of two things which they owned. One thing was Jim’s gold watch. It had once belonged to his father, and before that it had belonged to his father’s father. The other thing was Bella’s long, beautiful hair. Della looked at her hair in the mirror and then she quickly put on her old brown coat. With a bright light in her eyes, she walked quickly out of her room, down the stairs. Next to the door where she stopped, there was a sign which said: Mrs. Sofronie. Hair Articles of all Kinds”. Della went up the stairs to the second floor where she stopped to get her breath. “Will you buy my hair? “asked Della. “Twenty dollars,” said Mrs. Sofronie.

The next two hours went so fast they seemed to fly. She was going from one shop to another, to find a gift for Jim. At last she found one. It surely had been made for Jim and no one else. It was a gold watch chain, very simply made. Because it was so simply, you could see that it was valuable. She paid twenty- one dollars for it. And then she hurried home. At seven o’clock Jims dinner was ready for him. Soon the door opened and he walked in.

He looked at her with a strange expression on his face. “You have cut off your hair?” asked Jim slowly. “My hair will grow again. I couldn’t live through Christmas without giving you a gift. It’s Christmas, Jim. Let’s be happy. You don’t know what a beautiful gift I bought for you”, said Della. Jim took something tied in paper from inside his coat. “If you open this, you may know what I felt when I came in”. Inside the paper there were three combs with jewels. They were the combs that Della had seen in a shop window and had loved for a long time. Now they were hers, but her hair was gone. And then she showed Jim a gift. Jim looked at it, sat down and smiled. “Della” he said, I sold the watch to get the money to buy the combs for you”.

The Magi, as you know, were three wise men who brought gifts to the baby Jesus Christ. They were the first to give Christmas gifts. And her I told you the story of two young people. Each of them sold the most valuable things they owned in order to buy a gift for the other. But let me say this: Of all the people who give gifts, these two were the most wise. These two are the Magi.                                                                                       

                                                                                              O.Henry.

Read the sentences and fill the gaps with words from this list. There is one extra word:

He was very proud of the library that he owned.

     1.     She kept her hair back with two beautiful _____________.

     2.     The queen wore a crown decorated with beautiful________.

     3.     I have to buy my sister a ________ for her birthday.

     4.     Everybody asks him for advice because he is very___________.

     5.     He has a__________ collection of paintings.

     6.     She had a sad ___________ on her face.

combs expression gift jewels owned the Magi valuable wise

                                                

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