(3) Practice 1. Students may use some of the vocabulary from the seasonal ‘Activities’ and/ or ‘Holiday’ slides for their poster project.
2. Students will later have an opportunity to explore the hypermedia on their own and research holidays on the Internet.
(4) Evaluation 1. Students are able to identify vocabulary for the ‘Activity’ slide images when the teacher again reviews these slides at the end of class. They are also able to describe some of the activities using English.
2. Students are able to write about holidays which they celebrate in the homework activity.
(5) Expansion/ Extension 1. Students work individually or with a partner to research more holidays on the Internet.
2. Students work in groups to create a class PowerPoint presentation that summarizes the celebration of certain holidays in different cultures. Each group would contribute a few slides to the final presentation.
Other Activities: Follow-up: The teacher will come back to review the ‘Activity’ slides and vocabulary words later in the week. They will also be revisited during a unit review game on the last day of the unit.
Assessment: The teacher does an informal assessment during the vocabulary review at the end of class.
Homework Assignments: Students will write about some of their own customs and traditions for holidays that they and/ or their families personally celebrate. It should include a description of each holiday (name and time of year), traditional customs, etc. Level 2 students are only required to write short sentences whereas Level 4 students will write out short paragraphs with more complex sentence structures. The teacher provides each student with a handout, detailing the specific instructions for that person’s homework assignment. She also reviews the assignment with the class and models examples on the board.
