Building Blocks for Civil Communication
Overview
This lesson comprises of activities that explore how we are the same yet different at many levels. This lesson plan is made for students having a beginner-intermediate level of English (A2-B1). The activities and the content are appropriate for primary and secondary school learners. Using the principles of Civil communication, this lesson plan will enable students to create ground rules for classroom communication.
Audience (Age, English Level): Access Students English Level: A2-B1 | |
Two Sentence Overview of the Lesson Plan: Using the principles of Civil communication, this lesson comprises activities to explore how we are the same yet different at many levels. This lesson plan is made for students having beginner-intermediate levels of English (A2-B1). The activities and the content are appropriate for primary and secondary school learners. | |
Resources Needed: Notebook (something to write on) Pen/pencil (something to write with) Communication & Miscommunication Slides | |
Learning Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Warm-Up: (5-7 Minutes) Making Identity Wheel 1. Instructor will share an identity wheel (sample given below) with the students and discuss/demonstrate her/his own identity using the wheel. 2. Students will write about their own identity using the wheel. 3. Once they finish writing about their identities, they will go around the classroom and find if someone else has exactly the same identity as they have.
(This activity will help learners understand that not everybody is the same and being different is perfectly alright) | |
Time
5-7 mins
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20 mins | Activities/Instructions
Warm-up Activity.
Listen and Draw
(When students compare the drawings, and see that the drawings are different they’ll discuss what went wrong. Where did miscommunication happen? What are the reasons for miscommunication? And how to overcome miscommunication)
Discussion
The instructor will share the following questions via PowerPoint presentation and have a discussion on these with students.
After the discussion, the PowerPoint slides regarding the definitions of these terms will be shared with the students. Group Activity for Watching Video After defining Civil Communication, students will be divided into small groups (3 or 4 students).
In the final step connect the goal of these activities to the classroom expectations, which students will develop in the form of a “classroom commitment for civil discourse.”
(Teacher will allow student leadership as they collaborate, but make sure that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and added to the classroom commitment.)
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Closing/Debrief (6-8 minutes)
3-2-1 activity
Students will describe 3 takeaways from the lesson; 3 things they learned 2 things they liked about the above activities 1 question they still have
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