2024-10-09

Lesson Aims

  • I an observe, analyse and practise language for contrast, purpose and reason.
  • I can learn expressions for success, failure and effort.
  • I can present a personal opinion clearly and respectfully in your writing.

Material

  • Magazine page 8
  • Magazine Study Skills
  • Magazine pages 4-5
  • Magazine page 11: Writing

Plan

  • My Choice in groups
  • Magazine page 4-5
  • Study Skill: writing

Homework

  • write a response to page 5 ex. 10 as a paragraph

Incidental Language

  • Failure:
    • fail miserably, to give up, be rejected;
  • Success:
    • breakthrough, light-bulb moment, triumph over adversity, become hugely successful, have a chance at success, succeed, opportunities to succeed;
  • Effort:
    • work really hard, put the hours in, trial-and-error, put your all into something, put something to the test.

Error Correction

  • over populated

    • overcrowded

2024-10-07

Lesson Aims

  • I can understand different points of view as two young people talk about grit, effort and success.
  • I can talk about my own opinion on grit, effort and success.
  • I can observe, analyse and practise language for contrast, purpose and reason.
  • I can learn expressions for success, failure and effort, and use them to share my own ideas.

Materials

  • magazine pages 3-5

Plan

  • page 3/ex. 5 Speaking
  • Group Debate: Nature vs. Nurture
  • Role-Playing Interview: “Secret to Success” Talk Show
    •  students play the roles of a successful person and an interviewer.
    • The interviewer asks questions like:
      • What was the most challenging part of your journey?
      • How did you stay motivated when you wanted to give up?
      • Who or what influenced your path to success?
  • magazine work
    • audioscript

Homework

work on vocabulary notebook and try out some of the learning resources

Incidental Language

  • rhetorical question
  • triumph over adversity
  • growth mindset
  • gender
  • innate
  • nature vs nurture
  • mentor

Error Correction

  • but then I lost motivation in it
  • you have to put an effort to something
  • people who have talent will faster teach
  • you need to born with talent
  • If you talent then
  • Have talent is important, too
  • you can go any lesson and try
  • learn at someone famous

2024-10-02

Lesson Aims

  • Learn about grit and identify views on what can lead to personal success.
  • Learn and use nouns related to the topic of being successful.
  • Give my own views about what qualities are important for success.
    • keywords:
    • intelligence, failure, determination, passion, opportunity, effort, perseverance, perfection, luck, talent, wealth, motivation

Materials

  • GTKY handout
  • magazine

Homework

  • none other than to revise new words and work on some of them in your learning journal

Plan

  • GTKY question warmer
  • magazine warmer
      1. Discussion Prompt: “What is something small but meaningful that you’ve achieved recently? It could be learning a new skill, helping a friend, or even completing a challenging school project.”
      1. Follow-up Question: “What motivated you to achieve this, and how did it make you feel afterwards?”
      1. Group Sharing: Students share their achievements in small groups and discuss what they learned from the experience.
  • magazine intro with page 1
  • reading and vocabulary pages 2-3

Incidental Language

  • admire
  • to object to something
  • sum up
  • amplifier
  • dishonesty
  • arrogant
  • selfishness
  • down to Earth
  • humble
  • set long erm goals
  • effort
  • grits
  • privilege
  • various
  • perseverance

Error Correction

  • Who’s admirable most?
    Who do you admire most?
  • I do mistakes.
    I make mistakes.
  • You are agree with this.
    Do you agree with this?
  • People must to learn.
    People must learn.
    People must learn.
    People have to learn.
  • They were having better grades than the clever students.
    They were getting better grades than the clever ones.