Description: You will explore different websites that talk about buying products and eventually talk about gifts and traditions related to fathers day. Namely yo will work on the following: comparative and superlative structures; phrases for shopping; giving their opinion; reasearch skils; communicative skills; colaborative skills; and creative skills.
School: Private School with six 45min periods of English class per week, with a spiral curricula.
Age: 16 - 17
Level: Intermidiate
2) Task:
The final objective will be to create an article describing the festivity and recomending possible gifts that can be bought online for father's day.
3) Process:
How do you do your shopping?
There are many ways to buy things. Some people prefer in-person shopping, talking to assistants and being able to try the products. Some other people prefer shopping at home, browsing through endless websites that are only one click away.
What do you prefer?
Have you ever had to buy products using English?
Explore the following website, watch the video and complete the activities.
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/speaking/a1-speaking/shop
Acsess these two websites to practice dialogues for in person shopping. You can always use Cambridge's online dicctionary to help or ask the teacher :) Good luck!
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/shopping/exercises?02
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/shopping/exercises
Finally explore the folowing article and discuss the questions below:
https://www.lifewire.com/shopping-online-pros-and-cons-3482632
Can you think of any other pros and cons?
What pros and cons do you consider most important?
Have you ever bought products online?
What did you buy?
Did you experience any issues?
Farther's Day across the World
What are some Argentine traditions that may come to mind when talking about fathers day?
Lets take a look at these articles that describes how Father's day is celebrated in different countries:
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https://www.jewelrythis.com/blog/fathers-day-gift-giving-traditions-around-the-world/
Then, answer the following exercise to check comprehention:
file:///E:/Documents/FACU/HotPotatoesA.jqz.htm
Compare and contrast:
What countries have a similar celebration to Argentina?
Why?
The teacher will then work on comparative and superlative structures. Explaining and going through the excercises in this offlineworksheet:
https://eslbrains.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ESL-Brains-Better.-Faster.-Stronger-SV-4237.pdf
They can futher practice these structures by doing the expecises on these websites:
Fathers Day Gifts
It is almost the 16th of June meaning that Father's day is close. Reflect on the following quesitons:
What do your dad’s like to do? Does he have any hobbies?
Have you ever bought them a gift before?
Who buys the gifts in your family?
Have you thought about what you can give them this year?
The teacher will then ask the students to work on the following offline worksheet in order to practice some vocabulary that can be usefull for the rest of the lesson
https://www.onestopenglish.com/download?ac=1243
Next: in pairs skim through this article and choose three gifts you like and explain to your partner why you would choose them:
https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/best-fathers-day-gifts
Finally, browse through these websites and choose 3 products you would choose as a gift and write a breif description for each one explaning why using the new vocabulary and the comparative/superlative structures that had been worked on the previous class:
https://www.walmart.com/cp/clothing/5438
The final task of this web quest shall be to get into groups and upload onto a shared google document the recomended products they have chosen along with their description, recomendation and details. By doing so, each group will end up with a colaborative article they created as together.
The article must also include a short introduction describing Father's day celebration in Argentina and why it could be convenient to buy online gifts, integrating the previous clasess as well).
(Creative Product Task – Produce something in a given format )
Although throughout each lesson they will correct and reflect on the activities they have done, the final evaluation stage shall be based on the article they have created as a group. The teacher will correct based on a rubric she will have shared with the students previously. However, the students will also coment on what they have learnt and also review the articles made by their peers.
References: Dudeney, G., &Hockly, N. (2007). How to Teach English with Technology. (add link)