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Level : Form 2 (beginner to intermediate)

Time : 70 minutes (double-period class)

Theme/Topic : Important people

General Objective: Integrating ICT in English lesson

Specific Objectives (Educational aims):

1. Students should be able to obtain information from video clips that they watch and fill in the task sheet provided.

2. Students should be able to browse for public figure and obtain details about them.

3. Students should be able to write a short paragraph/summary about public figures using correct past tense.

Skills integrated: Listening and reading to obtain information. Writing for academic purposes.

Previous knowledge:

1. Students already learned on how to attach and download files in e-mail.

2. Students already learned about grammar rules of present and past tense.

Technical Requirements:

1. One computer for 3-4 students with an Internet connections and web browser.

2. A computer with projector and Microsoft Excel for teacher.

3. Microsoft office word installed in each computer.

Preparations:

1. Check for videos availability in youtube.

2. Sent the task sheet to students' e-mail.

Procedure:

(Set induction)

1. Teacher shows a slideshow of famous people in the world.

2. Teacher asks several lead questions about those people to the students.

3. Teacher instructs one member in each group to log into his/her e-mail account.

(Development)
Activity 1

1. Teacher asks students to enter youtube.com

2. Teacher briefly explains about the website.

3. Teacher gives the url of an uploader to students.

4. Students enter the page and are asked to search for any famous people that they know.

5. Students watch the short documentary. (video clips)

6. Teacher instructs students to download the electronic task sheet from their e-mail.

7. Students are required to fill the details about person that they just watched in the video clips.

8. Students also need to download the image of the person to be put into the task sheet.

9. After completing the activity, students need to save the task sheet and attach the file into the email.
10. Students send the e-mail to teacher.

Activity 2
1. Teacher asks students to think about former Malaysian public figures.
2. Students verbally tell teacher about their selected figures. (one figure per group)
3. Teacher approve students' choices.
4. Teacher asks students to enter a website.
5. Students make a research about the public figures that they had chosen.

6. Teacher encourages students to use wikipedia as source of information.

7. Students opened the second task sheet.

8. They are required to write a summary (around 70-100 words) of the public figure.

9. Teacher emphasize on the importance of using past tense in writing the summary.

10. Students save and submit the summary to the teacher via email.

(Conclusion)

1. Teacher sums up the lesson of the day.

(Follow up)

- Individually, students need to create a youtube account and subscribe to a channel of their own choices.