LESSON PLAN FOR PRESENTATIONAL COMMUNICATION (VIEWING)

Theme: Food

Topic: Creating a food commercial.

Introduction

The aim of this lesson is to engage students through viewing of a videotext and the multimodal Available Designs in videotexts that allow for their creation and interpretation. In the initial silent viewing stage, the focus is on guiding students to identify and talk about the way information is structured in the videotext. The primary aim is to activate learners’ knowledge of videotext genre or type, draw their attention to the range of modes of meaning, and lay the groundwork for their interpretation of the videotext. The second silent viewing activity is to help them to identify cultural differences in visual elements. The initial viewing with sound is intended to help students to develop global comprehension of essential events and facts by confirming or disconfirming hypotheses elaborated in two previous stages. The detailed viewing with sound stage enables students to link key lexical, grammatical, or discourse features to the cultural perspectives they carry. The critical viewing with sound phase helps them examine the construction of a videotext, take stock of knowledge developed from the videotext, and explore sociocultural notions. Finally, the knowledge application stage will enable students demonstrate textual interpretation through multimodal transformation of activities like retelling the story of the video.

Lesson learning objectives

Students will be able to:

Linguistic

• learn how to use the relative pronouns “qui” and “que”

• use setting-appropriate vocabulary related to food in a way that is comprehensible to a native or near-native speaker (with 80%-90% accuracy).

Cognitive

• critically evaluate practices related to food in both target and home languages.

• develop abilities in critical and functional analysis of texts.

• develop skills that extract key ideas and concepts from a video.

Sociocultural

• draw comparisons between the types of food in both target and home languages.

Lesson learning goals

Students will be able to:

Linguistic

• know the appropriate language use depending on genre and setting.

• exposed to vocabulary related to the food-making process

Cognitive

• activate learners’ knowledge of videotext genre or type

• develop skills that extract key ideas and concepts from a video and pay attention to the range of modes of meaning, and lay the groundwork for their interpretation of the videotext.

Sociocultural

• draw comparisons between their culture and the culture of the target language.

Materials to be used for the lesson: Computer, YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1mS7pnR890