Samfunnsfaglig engelsk

• Å jobbe med krevende fagtekster• Working with demanding factual

texts• Some ideas

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/video_and_audio/

Five stages• Provide a hook• Superficial overview• In-depth lesson• Vocabulary• Wrap up

Hooks• Oral questions• Written questions

• Textbook• Powerpoint• Paper• Joint class discussion• Groups

• Something visual• Images, diagrams, cartoons• Videos, songs, film clips, poems, extracts• Mindmaps • Word clouds • Timeline

Questions from textbook

Industrial Revolution • What industry was first affected by power-driven

machinery?– the steel industry– agriculture– the textile industry– the mining industry

• What is James Watt famous for?– he radically improved the steam engine– he invented the spinning jenny– he patented the electric light bulb– he invented the sewing machine

• What are some of the reasons for why the Industrial Revolution started in England? What constituted the favourable conditions?

• The word “slum” stems from the early 1800s, meaning a back alley, a street of poor people. What kind of slums were there in England in the 1800s?

• Was the Industrial Revolution a good or a bad thing for the British economy?

©Emmanuel Dundad/AFP Photo/NTB/Scanpix

Source: http://www.financial-portal.com/articles/article346.html

4 Pics 1 Word

• Most students will be familiar with this game.

• Find four photos that illustrate the same idea or object, i.e. "industry" or "the industrial revolution".

Mindmap

Industrial Revolution

Child labour Pollution

Steam engine

Spinning jenny

Slums Raw materials

Coalmining

Urba-nisation

Factories

Trains

Overview• Offer structure• Place in larger context• Formulate objectives• Refer to curriculum• Create expectations• Use headings in the textbook• List main points of your lecture• Clarify timespan

Teaching methods• Lectures• Textbook• Presentations• Question and answer sessions• Discussions, debates• Films, videos, articles, literary

texts• Flipped classroom

Lectures• Teacher teaches• Blackboard• Powerpoint• Textbook order or restructure• Textbook: homework, repetition• Checkpoints• Question and answer session• Extend the mindmap

Textbook-based• Reading out loud together• Reading in pairs/groups• Writing answers to the checkpoint

questions• Focusing on facts & vocabulary

Presentations• Divide the text up, let the

student(s) present their part• Assign all students to prepare the

same part, but only ask one or two.• Copy the text, give each student a

part, present to the others• Timeline• Pre-made powerpoint

Discussions• Extend the question and answer

session• Use the discussion tasks in the

textbook• Organize a formal debate• Fishbowl discussion

Extra materials • Films• Literature• Songs• Articles

Flipped classroom• Reverse teaching, inverted

classroom• Be the guide on the side, rather

than the sage on the stage• Homework: video lesson• In class: practical exercises• Teacher can tutor students

individually• https://

www.khanacademy.org/humanities/american-civics

Vocabulary• Ten useful words• Vocabulary lists• https://www.vocabulary.com/• http://quizlet.com/• Lokus• Online dictionaries

Wrap up• What?• Why?• Next?