Task 3 - WWW Lesson Plan

Level: Form 1 (Intermediate)

Time: 80 minutes

Aims: At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

a) identify and list out twenty adjectives words from the Garfield comic strips

b) use the adjectives listed out to create dialogues in a comic strip.

Technical Requirements:

Computer (two students per computer), Internet connection, internet browser (Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer etc), e-mail, Microsoft word.

Preparation:

1. Locate sites that related to comic strip.

2. Asks students to sign up an e-mail account (if they don’t have one) and asks them to give their e-mail address to the teacher a week before the class.

3. Teacher must post the electronic task sheets to their e-mails before the class.

Website: http://www.garfield.com/ , http://www.toondoo.com/createToon.jsp

Procedure:

Set induction (5 min)

1. Teacher shows a picture to the students and asks them to describe its appearance.
2. Teacher writes down the answers on the board and underlines adjective words.

Development (70 min)

3. Teacher explains the rules of adjectives to the students and gives examples.
4. Teacher asks the students to go to http://www.garfield.com/.
5. Teacher asks the students to read the comic strips and identify twenty different adjectives from the comic strips.
6. Teacher asks the students to list out the adjectives by copying and paste the words to the task sheet 1 that can be opened from their e-mail.
7. Once they have finished, teacher asks the students to go to website http://www.toondoo.com/createToon.jsp, sign up and create dialogues in a comic strip by using several adjectives that they have listed.
8. Teacher helps the students if they encounter any problem while making the comic strip.
9. After they have finished, they must save it and publish. They must share the comic strip with other friends by sending it to friend’ e-mails as well as teacher’s e-mail. .
10. Teacher selects a few of finished comic strips and discusses them in class with other students.

Conclusion (5 min)

11. Teacher recaps the lesson by emphasizing on how to use adjectives.

Follow up activity:

12. Teacher asks the students to complete the task sheet 2 (can be opened from their e-mail) by building up ten sentences using at least two adjectives for each sentence.
13. Once finished, they must send it via e-mail before the next class.

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.