Monday, February 8, 2016

#9 Third Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / National Symbols / Grade 9

#9 Third Competition for Teacher Generated Materials / National Symbols / Grade 9

General objectives: By the end of the lesson,the students will be able to gain cultural knowledge and therefore will be able to speak about two national symbols,Kartlis Deda and the Statue of Liberty.

Language objective:  Ss will learn new vocabulary (15 words connected to the text), they will comprehened the text and will be able to have writing and oral practice about this topic,they will be able to answer the questions about national symbols.

Civic objective: Ss will be able to make some diffences and similarities between Kartlis Deda and Staue of Liberty,they will learn their national and cultural meaning.
                      
Procedure:
Step 1:
Description:
Skills/work type
Time:
Warmer:
T devides the Ss in pairs and gives them different pictures of Georgian and Anerican symbols (each pair has only one picure),then she asks to think about this pictures and name  what countryand symbols do the pictures represent.T ask to each group individually.( Ssname only country and symbols’name)
warking/pairs
7m
Presentation:
Step1:
T Elicts what the topic of the lesson is and writes the word ,,NATIONAL SYMBOLS’’ on the board,then she expands the previous topic and asks Ss to talk about given pictuers and asks: ,,what do the symbols represent? Ss raise hand in case if they know.
Speaking/class
5m

Practice:


Step 1:
T gives out split papers written with new words and asks Ss to match English words with Georgian definitions,after T shows Ss poster with correcst answers and this waynchecks Ss work.
workig/pairs
6m
Step 2:
T gives out two different text about Satue of Liberty and Kartlis Deda and asks Ss to read carefully and fill the gaps with new words,then asks Ss to read out the words in order.
Reading-working/pairs
6m
Step 3:
T distributes handouts of venn diagram and asks Ss to write similarities and differences between two national symbols.(  Ss work in pairs)
Working/pairs
6m
Production:
Step 1:
T asks Ss to present what they did and talk about similarities and differences between Kartlis Deda and Statue of Liberty.(Ss raise hands and represent their job).
Speaking/class
6m
Step 2:
T asks about some important questions about the topic:when was it constructed? How it was constructed? Why was the structure built? What is its size? Who is architect and designer? Where it is located? What is its physical characteristics? What about some other important facts?
Speaking/class
7m
Homework:

T asks Ss to write a paragraph about symbols,its cultural and historical meaning for country.

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Matching the words



Situated                   მდებარეობა

Expantion                გაფართოება

Beam                       სხივი

Core                         გული

Erected                    აღმართული

Celebrated               ზეიმობა

Anniversary             წლისთავი

Hospitality               სტუმართმოყვარეობა

Represent                 წარმოდგენა

Commemorate         წლისთავის ზეიმობა

Friendship               მეგობრობა

Torch                       ჩირაღდანი

Copper                     სპილენძი

Pedestal                   საფუძველი

vital                         სასიცოცხლო

Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty,officially named Liberty Enlightening the World, is a monument symbolizing the United States.The statue is placed near the entrance to New York City harbor.
The statue 1)                 the signing of the United States Declaration of independence. It was given to the United States by the people of France,to represent the 2)              between the two countries established during the American Revolution. It represents woman wearing a stola, a crown and sandals,trampling a broken chain,and with a 3)           in her raised right hand and a tabula ansata, where the date of the Declaration of Indepedence. The statue is on Liberty Island in New York Harbor,and welcomes visitors,immigrants,and returning Americans traveling by ship.
Frwderic Auguste Bartholdi sculpted the statue and he obtained an U.S. patent for the structure. Maurice Koechlin,who was chief engineer of Gustava Eiffel’s engineering company and designer of the Eiffel Tower, designed the internal structure. The pedestal was designed by the architect Richard Morris Hunt. Eugene Violet-le-Due chose 4)                   in the construction of the statue.
The statue is made of a covering of pure copper,left to weather to a natural blue-green patina. It has a framework of steel.The exception is the flame of the torch,which is coated in gold leaf. It is rectangular stonework 5)             with a foundation in the shape of an irregular eleven-pointed star. The statue is 151 ft(46) tall,but with the  pedestal and foundation, it is 305 ft (93m) tall.
The Statue if Liberty is  one of the most recognizable symbol in the world. For many years  it was one of the first glanced of the United States for millions of immigrants and visitors after ocean voyages from around the world.
The Statu is the central part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, administered by the National Park Service. The National Monument also includes Ellis Island.

       A.    Torch               B. pedestal            C. commemorate              D. copper               E. friendship


                                                                            Kartlis Deda

Kartlis Deda is1)                          strategically important crossroad where Europe meets Asia.
So when I arrived and a taxi picked me up from Tbilisi airport and drove me to the city centre,I started out of the window and noticed the obvious requirement for 2)                       .Obvious because much of the city is a building site and you don’t built for any reason.They build skywards and into the rock.Terracota houses perch over Tbilisi like the mansion and spiraling roads of the Hollywood hills.
Thick,wooden 3)                  replace traditional scaffolding.The washed tome and marbled museums and houses in Tbilisi are contrast to the surrounding villages where you witness real poverty.
The striking backdrops to Tbilisi are rolling hills and greenery.you can hear soft south flow of the Mtkvari River. Today the river splits through the city 4)                 .Taxi are everywhere,a sign of ot hope,the expectation for visitors and weary tourists requiring transport.
As a summit I reahed Kartkis Deda,designed by sculptor and Tbilisi native,Elguja Amashukeli and 5)              on the top of Sololaki hill in 1958,the year Tbilisi 6)                   its 1500-th 7)                            .         
The 20-meter-tall aluminium statue,wearing Georgian national dress and holding a cup of wine in one hand and sword in the other has been called the monumental ,,Morher of Georgia ‘’.She symbolizes the Georgian national character:winestands for 8)                   and the sword 9)                  every Georgians love of freedom.
Kartlis Deda stands all the way up there,upon the hill and over-looking her capital.She is silent,a shining tall construction watching over Tbilisi. She is perhaps the most important woman in all of Georgia: its protector and a standing definition to other of what Georgia is,has been and will be,she is10)         to the Georgian spirit. She is powerful and necessary, she is beautiful, she is Georgia’s most famous and most recognized woman.

A.Hospitality    B. expention   C. erected   D. vital   E. situated   F. represent   G. core   
H. anniversary    I. beam    J. celebrated




When was it constructed?
How was it constructed?



Statue of Liberty
Kartlis Deda
Designer Bartholdi began prior to 1876. Am. People were responsible for the pedestal and the French people were responsible for the statue; completed 1886
Kartlis Deda was constructed in 1958. 
Made of aluminum.
Size:
Height:  Ground to torch 305 ft (93 meters)tall; base: 62 ft (19m.) square
20 meters (65 ft) tall
Located in
Ellis Island near harbor of New York City
Located on Soloaki Hill near Narikala Fortress in Tbilisi, Georgia
Architect & designer
Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi
Structural issues:  Alexandre Gustav Eiffel was commission to design the  iron pylon and skeletal framework for the copper statue
Georgian sculptor Elguja Amashukeli designed the statue of a Georgian woman in Georgian National dress. 
Physical characteristics:
Statue of Roman Libertas Goddess of Freedom; holds torch in one hand; tablet of laws-inscribed, July 4,1776;broken chain at feet; made of copper
Made of aluminum; holds a bowl of wine in her left hand to greet those who come as friends; sword in right hand for those who come as enemies
Other important facts:
3.2 million visitors in 2009. Statue was shipped in 350 pieces and re-assembled on the pedestal in 4 months. She was a centennial gift 10 years late.

Why was the structure built?
Built in combined efforts of French and American people to commemorate 100th anniversary of Am. Independence
Statue was built to commemorate the 1500 year anniversary of the city of Tbilisi.    The statue is considered a symbol of the Georgian national character. 


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