Topic: Shopping: challenge or perspective for the 21st centuryType of the lesson: Introducing new contents (vocabulary, reading, speaking, listening)Teacher: Lungu Svetlana, Access Skype TeacherProgram: Access Microscholarship Program, Moldova

Competences: Communicative and pragmatic competence: oral production of the messages and interaction. Reception of the text messages.

Subcompetences:1. Extracting essential information from videos.2. Presenting orally ideas, opinions through expressing personal attitudes and using arguments.3. Analyzing situations described in the video and text, identifying the personality traits of the main character.4. Supporting a point of view with relevant arguments while exchanging oral messages on social-cultural topics.

Intercultural Competence: knowing other cultures and personalities

Subcompetences:1. Identifying famous places in London from the video.2. Distinguishing cultural aspects of the country presented in the video and comparing to our national culture.

Time: 90 minutes

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Nr Competences

Stages of the lesson

Sub -competences

Objectives Procedure Methods and techniques

Materials Time Evalua-tion

Notes

Evocation To make a warm connection with the group of the students

Warming-up activity: Each person gets a colour and they are asked to speak about things from the perspective of their colour.Red-is the stop/turn-off colour: speak about a thing that you have recently bought and was really a turn-off in your life.Orange-is the motivation colour: what things you buy motivate you for being in a good moodYellow-is the inspiration colour: what was the best thing you have bought that inspired you in for a new activityGreen-is the money colour: what was the dumbest thing you have ever bought for much moneyBlue-is the sky’s/limit colour: what is your favourite fantasy about shopping.Purple-is the colour of royalty: if you were the ruler of a country for a day having a lot of money, what would you buy first?Indigo-is the odd colour: what is the most daring thing you have ever bought.

“Colour Jacuzzi”

Coloured paper

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2. Communicative and pragmatic compe-tence: oral production of the messages and interaction

Meaning Realization

Presenting orally ideas, opinions through expressing personal attitudes and using arguments

To get general information about students’preferences and attitudes

To revise the types of shops

To speak about the origin of the things they

The topic we are going to discuss about is: Shopping: challenge or perspective for the 21st century.Discussion questions:

1. Do you enjoy shopping? Why?

2. How often do you go shopping?

3. What are your favourite shops?

4. How do you feel about shops that are very busy?

5. Do you use to shop online?

6. Do you often spend more money than you planned?

7. What’s the best day for shopping?

Town centre: Students have to think of the centre of their city or choose one shopping street or area. Working in groups they have to find some different types of shops and name 3 things they can buy in each one.Look at your labels: students have a look at the labels on their clothes, bags, pencils, etc. they have to find out their

Conversation

Group work

Individual workMaking stories

Questions written on cards

Vocabula-ry cards

Labels of personal things: pencils,

5 min

3 min

5 min

Word order in building sentences

Types of shops

Names of countries

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have and to make up a story

To identify the most important factors when buying things

To find a solution for a dilemma

origin and fill in the table with the origin of 5 items. Then they have to choose an item and make up a story about the trip it had. Example: My dress was made in Turkey, but …. Till it got to Moldova.

- Is it difficult to choose an item when going shopping?

Consumer Criteria: students are given a chart and before you start the activity ask them to complete the 4th column of the chart with an item that is popular among them. Then they have to imagine that they are going to buy the items in the chart.- What do you consider before you decide which one to buy? They have to decide what are the most important factors when shopping for different items.

Price? How it looks? The quality? The brand? Anything

else?Consumer Quandary Cards: A quandary is like a dilemma, a problem. Students are arranged in groups of 3-4 and

Group work

Group work

copybooks, clothes, etc.

Charts

Quandary cards

6 min

5 min

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Intercultural Competence: knowing other cultures and personalities

Extracting essential information from videos

Identifying famous places in London from the video

Distinguishing cultural aspects of the country presented in the video and comparing to our national culture

situation

To speak about places to go shopping in London and in Chisinau

To express opinions on the given quotes

each group gets a card. Their task is to read it and find the solution.

- What countries would you like to go shopping? Why?

Video-watching: students are going to watch a video about best shopping places in London.After watching the students get a quiz.

- What are the most popular places to go shopping in our city?

Commenting the quotations: students are divided in groups. Each group gets a quotation and express their points of view:

1. Shopping is the best therapy when you are depressed and almost all women agree to it.

2. “Shopping is a woman thing. It’s a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death and the ecstasy of the purchase.” (Erma Bombeck)

Video-WatchingQuiz

Group workCommenting

Video: Shopping in London

Quotations

10 min

5 min

Oral comprehension of a message

The use of tenses in speech

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To express opinions and give arguments about compulsive shoppers

To identify the possible consequences of compulsive shopping

3. “If men liked shopping they’d call it research.”(Cynthia Nelms)

Debate:- Who are more

compulsive shoppers: men or women?

Reading: It is believed that usually women are more addicted to shopping than men, but a recent survey has shown that men also like shopping. Students are given an article: Men suffer from compulsive shopping too. They read the article and answer some questions based on it.

1. What did Dr. Lorrin Koram state?

2. How does Dr. Koram call this addiction?

3. What is said about men in psychiatry? Why?

4. What do you think about what you read?

5. How do we call people who suffer from the addiction to shop?

Consequences of compulsive shopping:

Financial problems Depression Anxiety Low self-esteem

DebatingDiscussion

ReadingConversation

Brain-stormingConversation

The article: Men suffer from compulsive shopping too

6 min

8 min

3 min

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Intercultural Comp: knowing other cultures and personali-ties

Analyzing situations described in the video and text, identifying the personality traits of the main character

To characterize the main character of the movie

To set steps for reducing shopaholism

To get familiarized with celebrities suffering from compulsive shopping

Family harmony deteriorates

Video-watching: students are given some pictures and they have to predict what the video will be about.Then they watch the trailer of the movie “Confessions of a shopaholic”.After watching: Their task is to characterize the main character of the movie.Then, they have to distinguish some personality traits of a shopaholic: low self-esteem, emotional problems, they are materialistic,etc.Tips for reducing shopaholism:

- What solutions are there for people who are compulsive shoppers? How can they be helped?

Students have to think of tips for reducing shopaholism.Famous people:

- Do you know that not only simple people face this problem, but also celebrities.

The teacher presents the students the top of shopaholic celebrities.

PredictingConversationListeningDescribing peopleBrain-storming

ConversationReadingBrain-storming

Conversation

The trailer of the movie “Confe-ssions of a shopaho-lic”

Power Point Presenta-tion

Power Point Presenta-tion

7 min

5 min

3 min Celebrities

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Reflection Supporting a point of view with relevant arguments while exchanging oral messages on social-cultural topics

To express likes and dislikes about shopping

Likes / dislikes: students get a chart and they complete it with things they really like/are ok/dislike/really dislike about shopping.Making a conclusion: students are asked to make a conclusion and express their points of view: What is shopping? Challenge or Perspective?

Likes & Dislikes Chart Filling

Conversation

Likes & Dislikes Chart

2 min

6 min

Extension To make a video about best shopping places in our country

To make a survey

As for the homework students 1. have to take a walk through their city and make a video on: Best Shopping places in Chisinau.2. Imagine in our country is celebrated a new holiday ”Buy Nothing Day”. Students have to describe this holiday and tell their opinions about it. Make a survey and find out how many people agree to have such a holiday in our country. Speak about the advantages and disadvantages of this holiday.

4 min

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