Pavlikeni

 

Freedom of Thought and Religion

 

Lesson Plan

 

Aims:          Developing speaking skills;

                   Improving students’ productive skills;

                   Encouraging interaction and fluency;

                   Developing students’ skills to work cooperatively as a team

 

Objectives: Students should be able to:

·         catch specific information from a text;

·         use non-verbal stimuli (photos, maps, etc.);

·         make assumptions and contribute ideas;

·         talk about the European Union, human rights, political and religious freedom. 

      

Materials:   Notebooks, a map of the world, handouts about Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King,

                   handouts with quotes from the Charter of Human Rights and a list of past recipients of the

                   Prize for Freedom of Thought established in 1988 by the European Parliament

 

Activities:   

1)      Warm-up (Group work): Using pictures of Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King,

       students make assumptions about who they are and what they might have in common, then

       find their countries on the world map

2)      Pre-reading: The teacher introduces the quotes from the Charter of Human Rights and points out that Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King struggled for defence of human rights and that the European Parliament awarded a prize for people who are human rights defenders. Students look at the list of prize recipients and find out that the first winner is Nelson Mandela

3)      Reading (Individual work): Divided into two groups students read the handouts – group A read about Nelson Mandela and group B read about Martin Luther King, then share ideas.

4)      Speaking: (Discussion) What is the importance of the freedom of thought and religion in the modern world?

5)      Follow-up: (Possible conclusion) The important values of our modern world are freedom of thought and speech, religious freedom, tolerance, freedom of mass media, human rights and democracy. Although these touch all of us, they are often limited to only some parts of the world.

 

Lesson closing:

1)      Homework assignment: Students read in the Internet about the life of Andrei Sakharov, in whose honour was named the Saharov Prize of the European Parliament

2)      Evaluation of students’ work

 

 

 

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