Education Standards
Antelopes
Book report-The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon
http://photodendro.edu.gr/v/item/video/8522/920
Reporting
Overview
Lesson plan on the genre of report
Activity 1
Have you ever read or listened to a report?
When did you find it?
What was it about?
Why was it written?
Activity 2 - Comparing and analyzing texts
Read the texts in the links provided and answer the questions.
What is the topic?
What kind of information can we find in the text?
Where can these texts be found?
Why do you think were they written
Who were they written for?
Activity 3 - video watching
Watch the video about Odysseas Elytis and think of possible subheadings for the information in the video.
Alternativley, go to the transcripts section and try to organize the text in paragraphs, providing a heading for each one.
Activity 4 - Organizing Information
Listen to the audio text about Ancient Egypt and fill in information under the right heading.
Alternatively go to the transcripts section and try to organize the text in paragraphs providing a heading for each one.
Activity 5 - Final Homework Assignment
Some of your schoolmates have started a school newspaper, and they are inviting you to contribute with your work. Pick a topic of your interest (person, event, activity, artefact, place, etc.) and write or record your report for the online version of the school newspaper.
Transcripts
Video transcript
Odysseas Elytis was the pen name for Odysseas Alepoudelis. He was born in Herakleion in 1911. In 1914, his family, which originally came from Lesvos, moved to Athens were Elytis began to study law after leaving school. After some years, however, he broke off his studies and devoted himself entirely to his literary and artistic interests. He got to know the poet Andreas Embirikos, who became his life long friend. As time went by, he was inspired by Embirikos and the Greek Byzantine cultural tradition. In 1935, he published his first poems in the magazine "Nea Grammata". He also took part in the 1st International surrealistexhibition arranged that year in Athens. Experiences from the war lie behind the work that made Elytis famous. He is known as one of the most prominent poets of the Greek resistance and struggle for freedom. After the war, Elytis was busy with various public assignments and he published very little in the following ten years. The poetic cycle "To Axion Esti", which began in 1948 but did not appear until 1959, is recognised as Elytis's greatest work. It has been translated into several languages and in 1960 was awarded the National Prize in poetry. It was set to music by Mikis Theodorakis in 1964. Odysseas Elytis was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979. He died in 1996
(Script based on a text from Think Teen 2nd Grade (Advanced) of Junior High School Studdents' Book)
Audio text transcript
We have all heard of the sophisticatedcivilisation of the Egyptians. Not only was it one of the first, it also lasted the longest: nearly 3,500 years! One reason for this was Egypt's location. It lies in valley between two deserts, and the great river Nile, almost 1000 km long, crosses it from top to bottom. Every year, for about four months, the Nile overflowed the surrounding fields. As the water sllowly receded, it left behinf a thick layer of mud. This made the fields very fertile and gave Egypt its ancient name, Kemet, which meant "black land". The Egyptians were superb engineers, astronomers, accountants, mathematecians and surgeons, and they used mysterious symbols called hieroglyphics to write. They built temples dedicated to their Gods and a famous statue, the Sphinx. What they are best known for, though, are the pyramids they built. How did they build them? No one really knows how they managed to lift the tremendously heavy stone blocks and lay them in place. What is even more remarkable is that they had no heavy equipment, such as cranes, to help them; they didn't even use the wheel until a few centuries later! Probably, thousands of men dragged and pulled the blocks up specially made ramps.