Overall Objective: students will be able to discuss the
stereotypes
Language Objective: students will be able to practice their
speaking, reading and critical thinking skills.
Civic Education Objective: students will be able to understand the
concept of stereotypes
Curriculum Connection:
Class Context and Needs:
Mixed ability class.
Materials: Computer, whiteboard, markers, mini
boards, projector, sticky papers.
Activities: Warm-up, speaking, reading, gap-filling,
reading, writing.
Overall Objective: students will be
able to discuss the stereotypes
Language Objective: students will be
able to practice their speaking, reading and critical thinking skills
Civic Objective: students will be able
to understand the concept of stereotypes
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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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To introduce the topic of the lesson,
teacher step-by-step shows the slides of a well-known joke and tells the
students to finish the sentences using their own associations. Students work
in groups and share their own ideas.
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7
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Activity 1
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Then teacher shows the ending of the
jokes and puts these kind of
questions: 1. Why do you think that the Heaven is where the cooks are
Italian or mechanics are German? 2. Why do you think that the Hell is where
the cooks are British or the lovers are Swiss? Etc. Students will discuss
these questions and teacher by putting other questions will lead them to
the main topic of the
lesson-Stereotypes.
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5
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Activity 2
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Teacher distributes the texts about the
topic and tells the students to read them and pay attention to the
nationalities and stereotypes given in the text. Teacher tells them to
underline the nationalities and their
characteristics (They can underline the key words) (handout 1)
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5
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Activity 3
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Teacher
draws the graphic organizer on the whiteboard as well as distributes
the copies of the organizer in groups. Students look through the text again
and fill in the organizer. Then they do the same activity on the whiteboard.
(handout 2)
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5-7
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Activity 4
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Myth or Reality. Teacher tells the
students to write these words on their
mini boards and she reads out examples
of common stereotypes, for example: Blondes are not smart or people who are
fat are lazy and etc. According to their beliefs students show either Myth or
Reality sides. If there is different ideas students discuss the issue.
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5
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Assessment
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Teacher tells students that they will
write a simple poem “Just Because” based on stereotypes about their own
identities (example: Just because I am
young, it doesn’t mean I am naïve, doesn’t mean I don’t care, it doesn’t mean
I will “understand someday”, I am a human being, etc) and distributes “Just
Because” worksheets. If there is time left they read their poems or stick the
papers on the board. (handout 3)
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10
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The English are cold and
reserved, Brazilians are lively and fun-loving, and Japanese are shy and
hardworking-these are the examples of national stereotypes which are widely
believed, not only by other nationalities but also by many people among the
nationalities themselves. But how much truth is there in such stereotypes? Two psychologists,
Robert McCrae and Antonio Terracciano, have investigated the subject and the
results of their research are surprising. They found that people from a
particular country do share some general characteristics, but that these
characteristics are often very different from the stereotype.
In the largest survey of its kind, a team
of psychologists used personality tests to establish shared characteristics
among 49 different nationalities around the world. They then interviewed
thousands of people from these same groups and asked them to describe typical
members of their own nationality. In most cases the stereotype (how
nationalities saw themselves) was very different from the results of the
personality tests (reality).
For example, Italians and Russians thought
of themselves as extroverts and sociable, but the personality tests showed them
to be much more introvert than they imagined. The Spanish saw themselves as
very extrovert, but also as rather lazy. In fact, the research showed them to
be only averagely extrovert and much more conscientious than they thought.
Brazilians were quite neurotic-the opposite of their own view of themselves.
The Czechs and the Argentinians thought of themselves as bad-tempered and
unfriendly, but they turned out to be among the friendliest of all
nationalities. The English were the nationality whose own stereotype was the
furthest from reality. While they saw themselves as reserved and closed , Dr
McCrae research showed them to be among the most extrovert and open-minded of
the groups studied.
The only nationality group in the whole
study where people saw themselves as they really are was the Poles- not
especially extrovert, and slightly neurotic.
Nationality
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Stereotype / Widely believed Concept
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Reality
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British
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Cold/reserved
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Extrovert/open
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Brazilians
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Japanese
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Italians
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Russians
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Czechs and Argentinians
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Spanish
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Just
Because
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I
am……………………………………………………
Just because I am…………………………………………………………
I am
not…………………………………………………….
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I am…………………………………………………….
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