Family Project

Family-related project

Target Audience:  Eighth grade

Project Goals:
1. The students will expand their vocabulary related to the main theme of the project.
2. The students will practice writing in English around the main theme.
3. The students will share their thoughts and emotions related to the main theme.

New words

Family
Recently
Separately
Ancestry
Decade
Imagine
Brother
Retirement

Activity 1

https://wordart.com/o7yafpznb9kj/word-artfamily recently separately ancestry decade imagine brother retirement
Purpose of activity: Student vocabulary expansion
I will introduce this word cloud and ask students:
1. What words are you able to identify in the cloud in front of you?
2. Add more words related to this cloud in your opinion.
* We will add the new words and create a new cloud together.

Activity 2:
https://www.vocabtest.com/definitions.php?tid=452132

Friends Turned Family

Alan Robinson and Walter MacFarlane from Hawaii first met at school and have been best friends for over 60 years.
Just recently did they separately start researching their ancestry, only to find out that they have the same birth mother! Never during those decades did they imagine that they were brothers.
The two men revealed that they were family at a party two days before Christmas Day. The brothers say that they have plans to enjoy their retirement together.

https://www.newsinlevels.com/products/friends-turned-family-level-3/

Friends Turned Family

How many characters are in the comics?

What can be learned from the comics?

Reading comprehension questions

After reading the text and studying the vocabulary, let’s see what you know!
Let’s play Kahoot:

https://create.kahoot.it/share/friends-turned-family2/d8dea37b-1e3a-4e51-a0cd-fb0a282649b0

Listening Practice

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/147/the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe/5279/to-my-mother/

 A pre-listening task:

1. What does the word MOTHER mean to you?
2. What kind of emotions does the word MOTHER raise in you?
3. Class assignment: Search online for two famous people who were adopted as children. Write why they were adopted.
4. Translate the following words that will appear in the poem:
a. Whispering
b. Devotional
c. Therefore
d. Infinity
e. Dearer

A Writing Assignment

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1m2hfDUbbchap8Ut4suqomiE639K3dAq_/view?usp=sharing

Classroom work – Writing a poem based on a clip
1. View the following animated clip
2. Give this clip a name.
3. What do you this in the genre of the clip (drama comedy horror)
4. Write a poem based on the clip ( you can relate to the weather, who are the characters, what did they see, how was their reaction, how did they feel, what did they think, what happened before after)
5. What would you change in the clip?
6. Create your own clip based on the same background. Add all the changes you thought of in the previous question.

Forum Assignment

1. Watch this Ted talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/jeffrey_kluger_the_sibling_bond?referrer=playlist-what_does_family_mean#t-3791782. According to the speaker, what is the importance of the relationship between siblings?
3. How is your bond with your siblings?
4. Give at least two examples describing your relationship with your siblings.