The healing power of ancient Greek drama: listening activity

Reading comprehension exercises

1. Why were theatre performances part of the healing process? 

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2. Why do you think the healing process depends on our psychological and emotional state? 

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3. Voicing various social issues through the arts educates the soul and treats a disorder. Why do we usually need to identify with or relate to issues presented by the performing arts? How does conversation help in the same sense? 

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4. Why do you think the community should remain peaceful and untroubled? 

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The Asclepieia of Ancient Greece

The healing power of ancient Greek drama: vocabulary, part 1

The healing power of ancient Greek drama: vocabulary, part 2

The Healing Power of Ancient Greek Drama - video and lesson plan

«The healing power of ancient Greek Drama: Utilizing visual and textual illustrations to enhance listening comprehension skills».

Lesson Plan

Dimitra Dertili

31 March 2015

Part 1:

Class: 3^rd grade Junior High School, a mixed ability class of 27 students

English level: B2-C1

Overall duration of lesson: 1 teaching hour

Brief description of lesson: the lesson explores the connection between theatres as part of the healing process promoted by the asclepieia (healing centres) in Ancient Greece and the latter's impact on freudian psychoanalysis.

Materials and handouts: three short videos, a powerpoint presentation, online exercises and worksheets.

Equipment and technology: interactive board, the internet.

Classroom layout and grouping of students: The students will be working both individually and in pairs.

Part 2:

Lesson Goal	Lesson Objectives	Assessment
To reinforce students’ language skills and critical thinking abilities via texts of spoken and written English that promote an  understanding of the purpose of the asclepieia, their connection to ancient Greek theatres in addition to their impact on 20th century psychoanalysis	Learn new vocabulary	Vocabulary videos (Reading and Listening)
	Practice listening comprehension skills	A listening activity based on authentic material
	Practice reading comprehension	A gap-filling exercise based on authentic material
	Practice writing skills	Essay writing (homework)
	A critical understanding of the purpose and impact of practices of the ancient Greeks.	Reading Comprehension Questions, Online reading comprehension quiz

Part 3: Lesson procedure

Teacher action	Students (anticipated response)	Materials/equip.	Time
Warm-up
Students are introduced to new vocabulary via a video that presents both term and meaning	Students try to remember the spelling of the term and its Greek meaning (memory enhancement)	Vocab video, interactive board.	3 mins
Students once again watch the vocabulary via the video without its meaning	Students must recall the words' meaning as the words appear in groups in the video.	Vocab video, interactive board.	3 mins
Body
Students watch and listen to a video regarding the relation of the ancient asclepieia to ancient Greek drama and contemporary psychoanalysis. The texts that accompany the images constitute a gap-filling exercise	Students provide either one or two missing words for each text on a worksheet	Video, interactive board, worksheet	10 mins
Teacher asks different students to read the  texts without the gaps in a series of powerpoint slides that compose the video	All students try to identify the previously missing word(s), while checking their answers	Powerpoint presentation, interactive board, worksheet	14 mins
Teacher introduces Reading Comprehension Questions and an online quiz to check whether students have understood the texts	Students work in pairs in order to answer the reading comprehension questions and worksheets	Online quiz, interactive board, worksheet	14 mins
Review
Teacher provides a handout concerning a writing activity for homework	Students hand in their short essay the following lesson		1 min

Part 4:

Student products: For homework students must find a dialogue in Euripides’ work Helen

that has stirred their emotions and state why.

Assessment: Student have to skillfully employ all four skills in various combinations. The outcome is assessed in equally various ways, depending on student participation, their activity results and essay writing.

Utilizing Visuals in ESL

Lesson Plan - Silent Letters in English

Class B6 – Level B2

Date: 25 January 2013

2^nd Model Experimental Junior High School of Athens

Demetra Dertili

Time: 45 mins

Lesson Objective: Spelling words correctly

Learning Goal: Identifying words with silent letters. Using reliable and scholarly online resources effectively.

Language Skills: Development of receptive skills (listening and reading) before the development of productive skills (speaking and writing).

Life Skills: Historical and linguistic information about the development of language.

Materials:

• Use of TED’s newest initiative TED-Ed, a service created for teachers who support student inspiration and promote critical thinking. TED-Ed incorporates effective material in the form of animations and powerful visuals that engage students and enhance their curiosity.

·         Presentation on prezi.com.

• Silent letter crossword puzzle and worksheet.

Equipment:

• Overhead projector
• Interactive whiteboard

Lesson Stages

Warm Up/Review

·         The video’s vocabulary was given for homework from the previous lesson, review of vocabulary. (6 mins)

Introduction

• Introducing the topic briefly. (3 mins)

Presentation

• Showing students the presentation on prezi.com.
• Students simultaneously listen and read as they watch linguist Gina Cooke’s  video about the silent letter “b” in the word doubt and its complex linguistic and etymological connections.  (3.28 mins)
• Students read some basic rules on silent letters and then answer the 5 multiple choice and 3 open answer questions from the THINK section. (14 mins)
• Through the DIG DEEPER section students are linked to the online etymology dictionary where they get a glimpse of how words are introduced into the English language. (5 mins)

Practice

• Students work in pairs of two in order to do the silent letter crossword puzzle. (13 mins)

Homework Assignment

•  Students are given a gap-fill text handout on words with silent letters.

Homework

Silent Letters: fill the gaps with a silent letter or letters

Name:_____________________

Class:___________

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