Title: Everywhere is well but at home the best… – close and far travels

Lesson plan elaborated by: Magdalena Trysińska

Topic: Everywhere is well… Pros and cons of traveling. Crossing your own boundaries.

Target group

7th‑grade students of an elementary school.

Core curriculum

Teaching contents- detailed requirements, classes 4‑6

I. Literary and cultural education.

2. Perception cultural texts. Student:

3) defines the topic and main thought of the text;

II. Language education

2. Language differentiation. Student:

5) recognises phraseological relationships in statements, notices their wealth, understands their meaning and correctly applies in statements;

8) distinguishes synonyms, antonyms, understands their functions in the text and applies in their own statements;

Teaching contents ─ detailed requirements, classes 7‑8

I. Literary and cultural education

1. Reading literary texts. Student:

9) uses, in the interpretation of literary works, references to universal values related to social, national, religious and ethical attitudes and prioritises them;

2. Perception of cultural texts. Student:

1) searches for the necessary information in the text and quotes relevant parts of journalistic, popular or scientific texts;

4) recognises the differences between the fine literature and scientific literature, popular science, journalism and determines the functions of these types of writing;

5) recognises journalistic genres: reportage, interview, article, column and defines their basic features;

III. Statement creation

1. Elements of rehetoric. Student:

2) collects and organizes the material needed to create statements; he edits the compositional plan of his own speech;

6) carries out the inference as part of the argumentative argument.

The general aim of education

General education of reception of texts and non‑literary (here: reportage).

Key competences

• communicating in mother language;

• communicating in foreign languages;

• learning to learn

• social and civic competences.

Learning outcomes

Student:

• uses different sources;

• analizes and interprets different cultural texts;

• finds information in the text and interprets it;

• reads the meaning of synonyms.

• discusses and cooperates.

Methods / techniques

• giving: informational contribution

• problematic: controlled discussion

• programmed: using a computer

Forms of work

1. individual;

2. collective;

3. in pairs.

Lesson plan overview (Process)

Introduction

1. The teacher acquaints students with the goals of the lesson and the topic of the class.

2. The teacher asks pupils to explain the meaning of the proverb: „Everywhere well, but at home the best” and „The grass is greener on the other side of the fence” and wondered when the proverbs are applicable. Students present their positions.

Realization

1. The teacher and students start the lesson „Everywhere is well but at home the best ...”

2. The teacher initiates the discussion using the beginning of the sentence in the e‑textbook: „We are traveling because ...”. The instructor asks that during the discussion the students take into account tasks 2 and 3 (e‑textbook).

3. Language exercise: the teacher notes that there are many words for traveling. Their meaning varies depending on who, how and for what purpose travels. Students solve the crossword.

4. The teacher briefly introduces the students to the biography and work of Ryszard Kapuściński, and then asks the chosen or willing studentl to read the fragment „Travel with Herodotus” in the lesson „Everywhere well, but at home best” on the epodreczniki.pl website (see „Approaching to the limit „- e‑textbook), which is displayed on the screen of the multimedia projector.

5. After hearing the passage „Journey with Herodotus”, the students discuss it, using the instructions: 5, 6 and 7 (e‑textbook).

6. Students perform the task 8: in a notebook they write a short note, answering the question of what boundaries, apart from state, are exceeded during foreign trips.

7. The teacher instructs students to read individually, silently, another fragment of Ryszard Kapuściński's „Journey with Herodotus”, which is in the e‑textbook („Is English enough?” In the „Pretexts” section). Then the youth performs exercises: 9, 10 and 11 (e‑textbook).

8. The instructor asks the pupils to look at the photo gallery from the trip to different parts of the world and talk about them, taking into account the questions included in task 12.

Summary

1. The teacher asks students about the subjective evaluation of Ryszard Kapuściński's texts. Personal reflections of students are not evaluated.

2. The teacher assesses the students' work, appreciating their contribution and commitment.

Homework

What journey would you like to experience? Describe your dream.

The following terms and recordings will be used during this lesson

Terms

Texts and recordings

„Everywhere is well, but at home the best” – far and close travels

Travelling has always accompanied human beings since the beginning of their existence. In the times of Ferdinand Magellan or Christopher Columbus, it was associated with great risks and required great courage. However, thanks to the first travellers new lands started to be discovered, maps drawn, more and more efficient means of transport constructed. To this day, travelling for various purposes – professional, scientific, tourist – is an important area of human life. Many books and travel programs have been created. Travel video blogs are really popular.

Departure from home is not always a journey – sometimes we only go short and very close. When, on the other hand, we leave the permanent residence for a longer time and set off somewhere further, then we are already on a journey. There are professions that even require leaving the house for many days and moving away from it many kilometers. Very often, however, we also travel from our own will and without obligation.

In the twentieth century, also Ryszard Kapuściński, considered to be the most outstanding Polish reporter, wrote about travelling. His books (e.g. „Travels with Herodotus”), although they included elements of creation and fiction, in an unusual way could discover the secrets of exotic – for the European – places and people living there. For one of the basic conditions for discovering new worlds, Kapuscinski did not recognize the end or destination of the journey, but the act of crossing the border. He also believed that access to the mystery of every world was possible only by learning a foreign language.

Read the text of Ryszard Kapuściński in the lesson „Wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej” – podróże bliskie i dalekie. Then follow the instructions below.

Read the next text by Ryszard Kapuściński. Answer the questions below.