LESSON PLAN

Decor Your Living Room

Level: Form 2 (Intermediate)
Topic: Home Decoration
Theme: Social Issues
Time: 80 minutes (double period)
Language Content: Prepositions of location and vocabulary

Aims: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
1) Identify new vocabulary using the information from the web.
2) Write sentences by using the right prepositions.
3) Decorate their living room.

Technical requirements:

1) One computer per group of 2- 3 students.
2) Internet connection.
3) Web Browser.

Preparation:

1) Locate the website.
2) Prepare worksheet based on the information in the website.
3) Whiteboard.

Website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room and http://www.la-z-boy.com/furniture/

Procedures:

Set induction (5 minutes)

1) Teacher revises the previous lesson on prepositions.
2) Teacher asks the students about the use of the furniture and the locations of the furniture at their house.

Task 1 (35 minutes)

1) Teacher assigns 2- 3 students for one computer.
2) Teacher instructs the students to go to the following website: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/categories/departments/living_room
3) Teacher explains on how to use the navigation bar to jump from one picture to another.
4) Teacher draws a table (see Appendix A) on the board and asks the student to draw the same table in Microsoft word.
5) Teacher asks students to work in pair and identify the furniture and electrical appliances in every single picture by fill in the table.
6)Teacher allocates 20 minutes for students to create and fill in the table.
7) Teacher guides the students in completing the task.
8) Teacher asks a few groups to present their findings and discuss it with the whole class.

Task 2 (35 minutes)

1) Teacher explains and lists down the prepositions of locations on the board.
2) Teacher instructs the students to go to the following websites:
(http://www.la-z-boy.com/furniture/com/furniture/)
3) Teacher distributes a work sheet (refer to Appendix B)
4) Teacher asks the students to label with the furniture and then create sentences to explain their locations using the right prepositions.
5) Teacher asks a few groups to read aloud their answers and sentences

Conclusion (5 minutes)

1) Teacher recaps the lesson on “living room decoration”.
2) Teacher inculcates moral values and asks for responses from the students.

Follow-up activity:

Students are asked to draw a picture on their living room decorations based on their own imaginations.

Appendices

B)

in class task - hypertext

NELSON MANDELA


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.

After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.

During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.


Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.