The Present: A lesson plan
I discovered this short video through my PLN today and immediately knew I had to make a lesson plan for it. Thank you my FB teacher friends, it’s a gem.
The video is a simple story and here is my simple way to use it in class.
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1. Play the video and stop at 2:40. Ask the students what they think will happen next. Discuss.
[I like first just watching, enjoying a video together. Learning doesn’t have to be all work, no play. It’s great in most cases with short video, to let students first “have a go”, take an inductive teaching approach. Students appreciate this.]
2. Give students the sentence strips. Ask them to cut them up. In pairs/groups, ask the students to put them in order.
3. Watch the video again and students can check their answers/order. At the end, read the correct sequence as a class.
4. Students complete the one page worksheet. Take up the answers and share their simple sentence about what the video taught them.
Extension: Use this cartoon version. Have the students rewrite it or just read it.
Many different ways to use this in class – mine is just one of them! Enjoy this beautiful message. Ok, now time for me to get outside!
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Interesting lesson!!!
Hello from Greece and thank you very much for your ideas and resources! I am going to use this film in my distance teaching lesson plan for 6th graders. Actually, I am working on it now. I was wondering how I could find or make a cartoon strip for the kids to write on. There you are, problem solved! Thank you very much again 🙂
You’re welcome! It really has a wonderful message for us all. Make sure to visit ELT Buzz Teaching Resources where I continue to create lesson materials for teachers.
what is the theme of the video?
Why not just watch the video? It relates on many levels, many themes. Childhood learning. Bullying. Laziness. But mostly disability.
Anonymous: Exactly! Just read the post, watch the video and think. I had a great online lesson + homework with the excellent lesson plan that DDeubel so kindly posted here. My students liked it very much, especially one of them, who tries to convince his parents to adopt a puppy! About the theme, I didn’t really think about laziness, disability etc. I mostly focused on hope, encouragement, love, sharing etc. A really inspiring lesson! I will surely repeat it next year and the year after next etc 🙂
Great Idea ! with the comic strip. that is the first time I have heard of that.