"WHERE THE HELL IS MATT?" LESSON PLAN

"Where the Hell is Matt?" Lesson Plan

Subject : English
Number of students : 20
Level of students : Elementary
Students' age : 10 - 11
Lesson time : 50 mins
Presentation time : 50 mins (the students present their posters)
Material needed : video clip, worksheets, photos and magazine cut-outs, Google Earth software
Skills practised : listening, speaking, reading, writing
Vocabulary practised : countries, nationalities, monuments, animals, plants, geographical terms (continent, desert, mountain, etc.)
Cross-Curriculum references : Geography, History, Language
Grammar practised : Superlative degree of Adjectives

Warm - Up / Pre- Viewing Activity

- Brainstorming
The students use their previous knowledge to brainstorm places of interest from the rest of the world they would like to visit or that have already visited. The expected results would be famous and well-known places such as Paris, London, etc. The teacher explains that they are going to watch a video of more places they might never have heard of.

While - Viewing Activity

- Worksheet
The teacher hands out a worksheet containing a list of about 50 places including the 36 places presented in the clip and the students have to tick those that they watch on the video. The worksheet can be filled even after the clip ends depending on students' memories and note-taking abilities.

The teacher plays the clip

Post-Viewing Activities

- Checking the worksheet and answering students' questions such as
"How could he travel to all these places?", "Who is Matt?" etc.
- The students find these places using Google Earth (or a world map and pinpoint the spots but this takes quite a long time)  or  http://www.panoramio.com/map/ that offers in addition pictures of the places you find on the Earth's map

- The teacher plays the clip for a second time pausing it at each place and asking the students to discuss the background and what they can see there (landforms, animals, etc.) and what they think is that special about each place. The teacher writes down sentences such as :
eg. Machu Picchu is the most famous landmark of the Inca civilisation.
The biggest jellyfish I have ever seen are in Palau.
The Great Wall of China is the longest wall in the world.
Area 51 is the most secretive American place.

Homework

- The students are asked to work individually or in groups and produce a poster or a collage using magazine cut-outs of Matt and their country. The title could be :
"If Matt was dancing in Greece what would the background be?" asking the students to think of the best way to present their country.The students can create presentations using user-friendly tools like http://www.slide.com/ , http://www.slideshare.net/ ,or http://www.slideboom.com/ .

Presentation of the Students' Projects

Extra Activity- Game
http://www.teach-ict.com/xml/cristnycol/cristnycol_21796/hangman.htm.