T.C.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENT

ELT.382.03 Instructional Technology and Materials Design

LESSON PLAN

Instructor: Olcay Sert

LESSON PLAN

Age: 18-19

Proficiency level: Upper-intermediate (B2)

Class size: 20

Grade and school: Prep school at Akdeniz Uni.

Time: 50 minutes

Number of female and male students: 12 female and 8 male.

Materials to be used:

• Pictures

• Videos

• Handouts

Aims: Students will be able to;

1. Develop listening skills by watching a video

2. Develop speaking skills

3. Understand the topic and have a general idea about it

Potential Outcomes:

1. Students can share their opinions with their friends.

2. Students can understand and use the vocabularies in the text.

3. Students can understand the topic.

4. Students can write about their opinions about the topic.

Pre-listening Stage: (5 minutes)

Teacher comes to the class, and greets her students. The teacher asks the following questions to the students ;

a. Which cartoons did you like ?

b. Who is the bad or good in that cartoon ?

c. Why do you think that it is good or bad ?

In this part students are expected to give examples of Tom and Jerry , Roadrunner and coyote kind of examples. But he or she shows the pictures of some possible examples of that topic.

S/he talks about good and bad characters and asks these questions to students;

- What do you see in these pictures?- Do you think a creature is always good or bad?- What make them good or bad?

After getting the answers s/he introduces the topic of that day.

While-listening Stage: (30 minutes)

Teacher writes the name of the video on board . 'Born good? babies help to unlock the origins of morality ' After doing that, teacher explains the procedure they will follow. First listening for four main idea in the video later for spesific details . Furthermore teacher applies students with the handouts of the trancription of the video in the second listening.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/born-good-babies-help-unlock-the-origins-of-morality-50135408/

TRASCRİPT :

It's a question people have asked for as long as there have been people: are human beings inherently good? Are we born with a sense of morality or do we arrive blank slates, waiting for the world to teach us right from wrong? Or could it be worse? Do we start out nasty, selfish devils, who need our parents, teachers, and religions to whip us into shape?

As we first reported last fall, the only way to know for sure, is to ask a baby. But until recently, it's been hard to persuade them to open up and share their secrets. Enter the baby lab.

This is the creature at the center of the greatest philosophical, moral, and religious debates about the nature of man: the human baby. They don't do much, can't talk, can't write, can't expound at length about their moral philosophies. But does that mean they don't have one? The philosopher Rousseau considered babies "perfect idiots...Knowing nothing," and Yale psychologist Karen Wynn, director of the Infant Cognition Center here, the baby lab, says for most of its history, her field agreed.

Lesley Stahl: Didn't we just think that these creatures at three months and even six months were basically just little blobs?

Karen Wynn: Oh, sure. I mean, if you look at them, they--

Lesley Stahl: Yeah.

Karen Wynn: They kinda look like little, I mean, cute little blobs. But they can't do all the things that an older child can. They can't even do the things that a dog or a pigeon or a rat can.

No pulling levers for treats or running mazes for these study subjects. But they can watch puppet shows. And Wynn is part of a new wave of researchers who have discovered seemingly simple ways to probe what's really going on in those adorable little heads. We watched as Wynn and her team asked a question that 20 years ago might have gotten her laughed out of her field. Does Wesley here, at the ripe old age of 5 months, know the difference between right and wrong?

Wesley watches as the puppet in the center struggles to open up a box with a toy inside. The puppy in the yellow shirt comes over and lends a hand. Then the scene repeats itself, but this time the puppy in the blue shirt comes and slams the box shut. Nice behavior...mean behavior...at least to our eyes. But is that how a 5-month-old sees it, and does he have a preference?

Annie: Wesley, do you remember these guys from the show?

To find out, a researcher who doesn't know which puppet was nice and which was mean, offers Wesley a choice.

Annie: Who do you like?

He can't answer, but he can reach... (reaches for nice puppet)

Annie: That one?

Wesley chose the good guy and he wasn't alone.

More than three fourths of the babies tested reached for the nice puppet. Wynn tried it out on even younger babies, 3 month olds, who can't control their arms enough to reach. But they can vote with their eyes, since research has shown that even very young babies look longer at things they like. Daisy here looked at the mean puppet for 5 seconds; then switched to the nice one for 33.

Karen Wynn: Babies, even at three months, looked towards the nice character and looked hardly at all, much, much, much shorter times, towards the unhelpful character.

Lesley Stahl: So basically as young as three months old, we human beings show a preference for nice people over mean people.

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After the second listening students are leaded to comprehension questions below ;

Are we evil born as evil or angels?

What is the relation between behaviours and education according to the video ?

What percentage of the babies chose the bad puppet?

How do the babies make their choices? How do they vote?

Post-listening stage: (15 minutes)

After studying on the listening text, students could have different ideas. Teacher wants to know what they learned in this lesson and their thoughts about the video. So, s/he wants the learners to write their thoughts and feeling by thinking behaviors of the babies. In vocabulary part, the students studied on some new vocabulary. While writing a short paragraph, they will use some of these new words and phrases. 10 minutes would be enough to express their feelings and thoughts in written form.

After finishing the written paragraph, the learners will read the text. Thanks to aloud reading, the teacher will control not only the the pronunciation of new words and phrases but also the correct use of the new items .

Assigment

At the last minutes of the lesson, teacher mentions about a “bbc made documentary”2 on this or similar but scientific subject. The students are asked to watch the video and think critically before coming next week. The next weeks warming up will consist of the controlling this assigment .