Lesson Plan: Aliens Took My Family (2)

This is my absolute favourite lesson to teach. It comes in two versions, one for juniors and one for seniors and it is best used to follow on from the family relations lesson.

This is the senior version.

Lesson Level: Senior 1 and 2 (Grades 10 and 11) Duration: 45 Minutes

Lesson Title: Aliens took my family (2)

Grammar and Vocabulary

Vocabulary of family relationships.

Asking and answering questions.

Lesson Objectives

To consolidate previous lesson’s family vocabulary.

To consolidate use of question words.

To encourage group discussion.

Materials Required

Photographs of your family members. (Photographs to represent your family members will do but classes respond better to the real thing.)

Magnets.

A cut out spaceship about a ten inches wide.

Preparation

Prepare materials.

Before class draw an alien on the board.¹

Procedure

1

Draw an alien and a spaceship

Elicit vocabulary

Alien, spaceship, outer space etc.

2

Play hangman variant.

(Put a picture of family member at bottom of the board and the spaceship at the top. For each wrong letter the spaceship comes closer.

Students win if they get word before spaceship lands and lose if spaceship reaches and kidnaps the family member.)

Use “alien”, “spaceship”, “moon”, “planet and some planet names as the words..

Play rounds with grandmother, grandfather, father, mother, brother (if pictures available)

Choose next person to guess by ball toss.(15 Minutes)

3

Put class into groups of about eight

4

Tell groups that aliens have landed outside.

They must write a list of questions they want to ask them and nominate someone in the group to go out and meet them.

When they have done that bring the nominated people to the front of the class (with their lists of questions)

Tell them they are human. Tell the rest of the class that they are aliens.

Put each "human" with a different group of "aliens".

The humans must ask the questions and write down the answers.

Return them to their own groups to share the information. (20 Minutes)

5

Use ball toss to groups to ask them what questions they asked and what the answers were.

(10 Minutes)

Notes

1. It doesn’t need to be elaborate art. An oval face with two big eyes is perfectly adequate.