Lesson Plan: The Return of the Aliens

Lesson Plan: The Return of The Aliens

This is a sequel to the junior version of the “Aliens Stole My Family Lesson”

It should be done the following year with classes that have previously seen that lesson.

Lesson Level: Junior 1 and 2 (Grades 7 and 8) Duration: 45 Minutes

Grammar and Vocabulary

Asking and answering questions.

Lesson Objectives

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

Ask class if they remember the lesson where the Aliens took my grandmother away.

Elicit everything they can remember about that lesson.

Tell them any details that they have forgotten.

Elicit/describe the words.

Alien/Outer Space/Spaceship/Homeworld

2

Put students in groups of six.

Tell students they will need paper and pen.

Copy this to the board.

Name of Alien Planet:

Names of the Aliens:

On my planet we eat:

On my planet we like to:

On my planet we play:

On my planet the weather is:

We took Bob’s family because:

On my planet we have:

On my planet we don’t have:

This is what we look like:

Get each group of students to make a copy of the table on the board.

Fill it in (in a different colour) – either with details of Earth or with details made up for another planet. Ides for this can be elicited from the class.

3.

Each group completes a table of their details.

4.

When complete demonstrate asking questions by asking for one question to each group.

Choose one person from each group.

Send chosen person to another group with BLANK paper. The paper with the created details stays with the original group.

5.

In the new group the visitor finds out as much information as he can and writes it down.

6.

Return students to original group and give time to share the information.

7. Ball toss to ask students about their own group and about the group they interviewed.

8. Extension Activity

Write these questions on the board.

Would you like to live with the aliens?

Why?

Do you think the aliens like Earth/China?

Why?

If you want to show the aliens around Yangshuo, what will you show them?

Give groups 2 minutes thinking time then ask the questions using ball toss to select students to answer.