#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.
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.
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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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Brainstorming
opinions about the word ,,gift”
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5
min
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Activity
1
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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?
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7
min
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Activity
2
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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.
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10min
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Activity
3
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Students
have to fill in the gaps individually using the vocabulary, which was underlined
in the text.
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4min
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Activity
4
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Checking
these exercises in pairs.
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2
min
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Activity
5
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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.
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7min
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Assessment
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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…
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10min
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Assessment rubric
9- 10
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7- 8
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5- 6
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1-4
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Describing the most memorable gifts they have given to the people they love.
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Can describe the most memorable gifts without mistakes.
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Tries to describe the most memorable gifts.
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Tries to describe but makes mistakes.
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Can’t describe the most memorable gift.
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Guessing the meanings of the new vocabulary from the context.
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Can guess the meanings of underlined words from the context.
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Tries to guess the meanings of underlined words from the context.
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Tries to guess the meanings but makes mistakes.
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Can’t guess the meanings.
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Filling in the gaps using new vocabulary.
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Can fill in the gaps using new vocabulary.
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Tries to fill in the gaps with some mistakes.
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Tries to fill in the gaps but makes many mistakes.
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Can’t fill in the gaps.
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Talking about the best present they have ever received using new vocabulary and expressions.
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Can talk about the present best present he/she has ever received using new vocabulary without mistakes.
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Tries to talk about the best present he/she has ever received with some mistakes.
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Tries to talk about the best present he/she has ever received, makes many mistakes.
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Can’t talk about the best present.
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“ 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
the Magi
valuable
wise
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