Summary
TStudents will enhance their listening comprehension, expand historical vocabulary, and practice past narrative tenses. Through engaging activities, they'll learn how a simple tuber influenced agriculture, population growth, and major historical events like the Industrial Revolution and famines, developing skills to discuss historical cause and effect.
Activities
Students begin with a warm-up, discussing staple foods, the Industrial Revolution, and the historical impact of food items, activating prior knowledge and setting the stage for the lesson's theme.
They will watch a video about the potato's history, completing exercises on chronological order and causeand-effect relationships, developing critical listening and analytical skills.
Vocabulary is reinforced through matching definitions and context-based sentence completion, while grammar focuses on using past tenses (Simple, Continuous, Perfect) to narrate historical events.
The lesson concludes with a "what if" discussion, encouraging students to think critically about historical alternatives and the potato's significant role in shaping our world.
Vocabulary focus
The vocabulary focus includes key terms essential for discussing history and agriculture. Words like cultivate, staple (food), famine, blight, influx, Industrial Revolution, and tuber are central.
Students practice these terms through matching and gap-fill exercises, enabling them to describe historical processes and impacts related to food and societal change
Grammar focus
This lesson concentrates on narrating past events. The grammar focus is on the appropriate use of the Past Simple for main sequential events, the Past Continuous for background actions or ongoing situations, and the Past Perfect for actions completed before other past events.
Students practice these tenses in a contextualized paragraph completion exercise.
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