NOTE: I’m republishing this put up from 2017 since each of those classes are extraordinarily standard this week, and thought new readers may wish to hear about them.
(Editor’s Observe: I initially revealed this put up in 2015)
I’ve beforehand posted about A Easy & Efficient Classroom Lesson On Gratitude, one which I’ve performed with my mainstream and Superior ELL lessons.
I’m modifying it this yr for my Low Intermediate English Language Learner college students.
I’ll first clarify the Thanksgiving vacation, and the phrase “gratitude.”
Then, as within the “authentic,” I’ll be exhibiting the Soul Pancake video that’s embedded under. The subtitles seem like ones the video’s creators made and never the automated ones YouTube generates, so meaning they really mirror what individuals are saying and never gibberish.
Subsequent, I’ll go over this pupil hand-out. Right here’s what it says:
Gratitude
Thanksgiving is a vacation in the USA. Many use this time to consider what gratitude. Gratitude is feeling grateful about one thing or somebody.
Shut your eyes and take into consideration somebody who’s essential to you. You possibly can take into consideration multiple particular person, too.
Why is that this particular person essential to you?
I’m grateful to have _______________________________________________________ in my life
as a result of ___________________________________________________________________. He/she
makes me really feel ______________________________________________________________. I’d really feel
________________________________________________________________ if he/she was not in my
life.
I’m grateful to have _______________________________________________________ in my life
as a result of ___________________________________________________________________. He/she
makes me really feel ______________________________________________________________. I’d really feel
________________________________________________________________ if he/she was not in my
life.
I’ll mannequin finishing the shape.
Subsequent, I’ll name my spouse, put her on speakerphone, and say what I wrote about her. I’ll invite college students to do the identical. As in earlier years, I think a good quantity of tears might be shed.
We’ll finish the lesson with college students turning what they’ve written into playing cards to offer the individuals they’ve written about, or posters we will use with an Adobe Specific video they’ll ship to these in different nations.
Right here’s the video I’ll be utilizing:
Be at liberty to supply strategies on how I could make this a greater lesson.
ADDENDUM: Right here’s how I modified it at this time for my ELL Newcomers class: I made it quite simple. I learn the handout and had peer tutors assist college students full it. Then, college students did speed-dating to share studying in English what they wrote. Lastly, I had everybody name one of many individuals they wrote about and inform them what they wrote – in English and of their house language. It went nice!
I’m including this put up to The Finest Sources On “Gratitude.”