LESSON PLAN OUTLINE
Time Interaction Description
Warm-up: 2-3 rounds of HG vocabulary via Quizlet to activate
schemata
Classroom management: taking attendance
Collaborative activity in small random groups, working together
to determine who has the right answer to the vocabulary
11:00 Ss-Ss question/definition
11:15 (learner Vocabulary: development, fair trade, gender empowerment,
centered human development index, less developed country (LDC),
activities) literacy rate, more developed country (MDC), primary sector,
productivity, secondary sector, structural adjustment, tertiary
sector, transnational corporation, value added
o From The Cultural Landscape text supplement for
Pre-task
course (by J. Rubenstein)
stage
Pairing off pre-task activity: high-low pairs (pre-determined by
Melinda)
11:15
11:25 Students mingle to find their partnerthe other S whose
term/definition matches their own
Upon successfully locating each other, student pairs create a
sentence using their term; share/report on white board
Picture description task (info. gap): same high-low pairs as pre-task
activity
Ss sit across from each other in dyads to avoid cheating by
Ss-Ss looking at partners pictures
(learner Picture description is modeled by Mary & Melinda
centered, Ss have 3-5 minutes for planning; writing down notes to self
11:25 learner- about their pictures and how they want to describe it to their
11:55 driven) partner
4-5 minutes for description while partner is active listener/note-
taker, then switch roles for 4-5 minutes
12-15 minutes to revise their notes and use them to write
Task
answers to topic question Contrast your landscape to your
partners landscape; key component: paraphrasing question to
topic sentence
~5 min reporting to class LDC vs. MDC characteristics, lead in
to post-task activity
11:55- Ss-Ss Post task discussion: dyads combine to make small groups of 4 for
12:05 (learner- discussion questions
driven,
Content based: gender empowerment in home country, LDC vs.
teacher
MDC distinction contrasted to home country, primary vs.
mediated)
secondary sector jobs in home countries, HDI as an accurate
measure of development
How would you change your short-essays after what you
discussed with your groups? 5 min revision time
12:05
Ss Post-task assessment: anonymous feedback on taskquestionnaire
12:10
T-Ss
12:10
(teacher Turn over to Melinda: housekeeping, homework assignments
12:15
centered)
Primary Sector Development LDC
Literacy Rate Productivity Value Added
1 This is a country that is still developing.____________________________________________
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5.____________________________________________________________________________
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Country B:
1.____________________________________________________________________________
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2.____________________________________________________________________________
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3.____________________________________________________________________________
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4.____________________________________________________________________________
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5.____________________________________________________________________________
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Compare your country to what you know about your partners country.
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Secondary Sector Development MDC
Literacy Rate Value Added Productivity
1.____________________________________________________________________________
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2.____________________________________________________________________________
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3.____________________________________________________________________________
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4.____________________________________________________________________________
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5.____________________________________________________________________________
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Country A:
1.____________________________________________________________________________
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2.____________________________________________________________________________
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3.____________________________________________________________________________
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4.____________________________________________________________________________
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5.____________________________________________________________________________
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Compare your country to what you know about your partners country.
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