Teacher instruction.

Subject 1 Movies &TV

Lesson 1 American features

Most students are able to recognise typical American features in Films
and series. A flag, New Yorks skyline or its Yellow Cabs can be
obvious American clues. Certain Holidays, celebrations and sporting
events can also be a distinguishing factor. E.g. the celebration of
Halloween and American football features are commonly known.

This lesson is about triggering pre-knowledge, recognizing the movie
genres and building up to something that matters to them. The homework
assignment is to compose their personal movie and series top 5 lists.
By making an effort to distinguish the American elements in their top
fives, they learn about the American legacy and its effect on them.


Lesson 2 The American Dream

All people dream their dreams and are full of hopes. Americas notion of
being the land of opportunity is rooted in its historical beginnings and
still prevails. In this lesson pupils explore its meaning, its roots and its
imperfection. This exploration is also taken on the level of
comprehensive reading tactics. They need to search for the gist of a text.
By doing so they can increase their confidence in reading outside their
comfort zone.

Lesson 3 High school
This lesson builds up to a comparison between a typical American high
school and their own school. The American extra curricular activity
examples and other features including labeling common American
stereotypes (e.g. jocks, nerds) in their own environment, provide pupils
with material to contemplate on. Its about finding out how they perceive
things and what they find important.

Lesson 4 Reflection
Reflection on the American legacy is one of the goals of this project. On
the site a combined theory element is provided for with A) examples on
how to express your opinion in English and B) a brief reflection
explanation.

As reflection can be perceived as a hard and intangible task for the
students, guiding questions are provided in each lesson. These enhance
their understanding by exploring the American influences in things that
matter to them. Furthermore, reflecting is incorporated in the output
components making a digital timeline and scrapbook.

In this lesson an overview of the project and expected output and rubric
is given. This is when they first sign up for both WEB based application
and start their group work on the scrapbook. The timeline assignment is
individual, since this reflects on their personal encounters and events in
life. (E.g. when they had their first Big Mac or saw their favorite movies
of all times.)


Subject 2 - Food

Lesson 1 McDonalds

Tell your students that the coming weeks will be about food. The first
lesson will be about fast food. They have to do the tasks and work on
their timeline, scrapbook and Infographic.

Step 1) Tell the students that they are going to work individually and in
pairs.

Task 1: Students pre-knowledge will be activated by the following
questions which they have to discuss in pairs:
1. What fast food restaurants do you know? Name a few.
2. How many times a month do you eat at a fast food restaurant?
3. What is your favourite fast food restaurant?
4. Do you think fast food restaurants are all American or do you know
restaurants from other countries?
5. What is your favourite dish and what do you like about it?
6. Would you like to work at a fast food restaurant? If yes, why?
7. Do you like the service at a fast food restaurant? Is the quality of
service the same everywhere? Think of: time you have to wait,
employees friendliness?

Task 2: In the second task they are going to answer questions about a
timeline of McDonald's. They have to write sentences in the past simple
tense in their scrapbook. They can compare their answers.

http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/our_company/mcdonalds_history
_timeline.html

Task 3: In the third task the students are going to watch a YouTube clip
about McDonald's Hamburger University. They have to answer the
questions and write their answers in the present simple or the past simple
tense in their scrapbook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICEmBpAPq0

Task 4: In the fourth task students are going to discuss in pairs if they
would like to work at a McDonald's restaurant. They have to give
arguments.

Your students may work on their timeline and scrapbook as well.

Lesson 2 - Pop Corn.

Tell your students that this lesson will be about pop corn and related
items.

Step 1): Tell your students they will work individually and in pairs.

Task 1: Students pre-knowledge will be activated by the following
questions which they have to discuss in pairs:

1. How often do you eat popcorn?
2. When or where do you eat popcorn? At home, with friends or only at
the cinema?
3. Do you know how to prepare popcorn?
4. Do you like to eat popcorn? If yes, there are several popcorn flavours.
Which flavour do you like the best?
5. Do you think popcorn is healthy or unhealthy?

Task 2: In the second task they watch a YouTube clip about how to
prepare pop corn. They have to retell it to each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1UFDRIn44

Task 3: In the third task they watch a Pop Corn dance clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfdLh0MHqKw

Task 4: Now they have to find other dances on the Internet with food
related names. They have to make a list. They have to write down what
the food products and the dance movements are. They may try to imitate
the dances together in a group.

Lesson 3 - Ben & Jerry's

Step 1) Tell your students they have to work individually and in pairs.

Task 1: Students pre-knowledge will be activated by the following
questions which they have to discuss in pairs:

1. Have you ever eaten a Ben & Jerry's ice cream?
2. If so, what is your favourite flavor?
3. Do you know what's on the package of ben & Jerry's ice creams?
4. Do you know what are the ingredients of Ben & Jerry's ice cream?

Task 2: In the second task the students have to answer a question about
informative texts on the Ben & Jerry's website. Ben & Jerry's named
some of their ice cream flavours after people, students have to explain
who they are. They also have to make a vocabulary list of 10 unknown
words and write down the translations. They have to write ten sentences
with these words.

http://www.benjerry.com/about-us

Task 3: In the third task students watch a YouTube clip about their flavor
'Late Night Pack'. The students have to write a response. The flavor
comes with a condom, it was created to prevend teenage pregnancy in
the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUAwIwj6UYo

Task 4: In the fourth task, students are asked to create a name for a new
Ben & Jerry's flavor. They have to name it after someone, and explain
why they have chosen that person.

Lesson 4 - Nutrition

Step 1) Tell your students they have to work individually and in pairs.

Task 1: Students pre-knowledge will be activated by the following
questions which they have to discuss in pairs:

1. Do you think fast food is unhealthy?
2. Do you think too much fast food can cause serious health problems?
3. Do you think people eat too much health food in the Netherlands?
4. Do you think you eat too much health food?

Task 2: Students watch a YouTube clip, it is abridged version of the
documentary 'Super Size Me'. They have to write a reaction to the clip in
their scrapbook.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2diPZOtty0

Task 3: There is a pyramid of nutrition on the project site. Students have
to look at it, think about it and make an asignment about this topic for
another classmate.

Task 4: Students have to make an assignment of task 3 made by another
classmate.

Subject 3 American Music.

Lesson 1 - Introduction.

Step 1) Start your lesson by telling the class that the coming weeks will
be about American music and the major genres. You can use the timeline
as a refence and you also show this timeline to the students.

Link:

http://www.dipity.com/MarliesQ/American-Music_2/

You can ask them the following questions to activate their pre-
knowledge:

1. What major American music genres do you know?

2. Whats your favourite music genre and why?

Step 2) Your students are going to write a short biography about their
favourite artist. The biography has to include the following:

Name

Artists real name

Date & place of birth

Music genre

Break out hit

Best album

Favourite song/album

Reason you like his/her music

They can look up what they dont know on the internet. At the end of
the lesson the students hand in their biographies. Dont forget to tell
them to put their name and class on the top of the paper.

Lesson 2 - Punk rock.

Step 1)Tell your students that this lesson will be about the Ramones. Tell
them that Hennes & Mauritz sells t-shirts with the Ramones symbol.

Students pre-knowledge will be activated by the following two
questions which they have to discuss in pairs:

Do you know the symbol of the Ramones?

Do you know who the Ramones are?

Step 2) Tell your students to work in pairs. They are going to
research/try to find the Ramones symbol on the internet and they have to
write down the elements in the symbol and what the elements represent.

They may find the symbol on this website (or elsewhere):

http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/so-you-think-you-
know-the-ramones-logo/

Step 3) Last week the pupils watched a concert on the internet of their
favourite artist.

Today they are going to write a review about the concert that they
watched.

First they need to go to the following site and read the guidelines for
writing a concert review:

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~gmclean/reviewguide.htm

After theyve read the guidelines they can find a couple of examples on
the following sites:

LADY GAGA
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/lady-gaga-dresses-up-has-
704049

JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2014/02/14/concert-review-justin-
timberlake-proved-himself-as-this-generations-top-showman-at-the-air-
canada-centre/

Step 5) Tell your pupils that they can report on the following:

Music hall (venue), music style, visual and lightning effects, costumes,
musicians and dancers, back-up singers, numbers performed.

They also have to mention why they liked the concert or why they did
not like the concert. Their review must be 50 words long. The
assignment is also on the site so they can read it again.

When they are done they have to put the review in their scrapbook.

Step 6) Tell your students that they are going to listen to a love song by
the Ramones. They just have to get an impression. The real task is: your
students have to mention their favourite American love song and they
have to explain why they like it so much. They have to write down their
answer and hand it in.

You can find the love song I wanna be your boyfriend by the Ramones
under this link:(the link is also on the project website)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHeppJ7JRjQ

They may work on their Scrapbook, Timeline or Infographics.

Lesson 3 - Hip hop

Guest speaker: http://www.iudk.nl/ProductieDetail.aspx?id=258

Step 1) Introduction to todays lesson. In the morning the whole school
listened watched/heared to a guestspeaker who told them about the
history of hip hop and showed them how hip hop dancing evolved over
the years. This presentation took about 1 to 1,5 hours.

We start the lesson by talking to the students to what they thought was
the most interesting thing they heard/saw during the presentation. They
do this in pairs and afterwards the teacher asks some of the pupils to tell
the rest of the class what their speaking partner thought was the most
interesting thing.

Step 2) The guestspeaker will come the class to talk to the pupils. Before
he does ask the pupils to write down 3 questions they would like to ask
him. When he arrives all of the students can ask 1 question, theyll write
down his answer. If theres time they can ask a second question.

Step 3) The students practised asking questions today, without realising
it, as a final assignment they will come up with a couple of interview
questions that they would like to ask their favourite artist if they ever got
the chance.

Step 4) The students interview each other, one being the artist, and the
other is the one conducting the interview. They write down their
questions in their scrapbook.

Each of students should play the role of interviewer and interviewee at
least one.

Lesson 4 - Rap

Step 1) Introduction, show your pupils the following clip. The clip is a
trailer of 8 Mile, a film about Eminems life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axGVrfwm9L4

Ask them the following questions:

1. Who is this film about?

2. What do you know about him? (Eminem)

3. Do you know any of his songs? Can you name a couple?

4. Have you ever really listened to his songs? Do you know what theyre
about?

You can also ask them the following general questions:

1. What do you know about rap?

2. What sort of message were/are rappers trying to send with their lyrics
do you think?

3. Do actually listen to the lyrics?

Step 2) Open the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlDhuH7Pnbo

Introduce the clip by telling them the title and artist, The Evening News
by Chammilionaire. He mentions a lot of events/situations. Ask the
students to listen carefully and also tell them that they will need to do
some gap filling.

Go about the listening in the following way:

1st time: listen to the entire song, what is the song about? Discuss with
pupils, what do they know about the things/events that are mentioned?

2nd time: Gap filling exercise.

Ask if a 3rd time is necessary, if so play a third time, afterwards check
the answers. And also ask the students what they noticed about the words
they had to fill in. (All verbs in ing form) Does that affect the meaning
of the sentences?

Step 3) Your students have listened to the rap and now theyre going to
write their own rap. It has to be a clean rap though, so no swears or
violent imagery.

Step 4) Students write their rap, they can use the internet look up other
raps for inspiration. Once theyve written rap they can show it to their
classmates and they can upload it onto their scrapbook.



Subject 4 Art

Lesson 1 Pop Art


This week you learn a lot about American art. About the makers and
their motives. Probably you have seen these art forms already, but you
were not aware it. In these three lessons your will learn to: How to give
your opinion about art , How to describe art and even How to create art.

Lesson 1: Pop Art Andy Warhol

Activity 1: In pairs, with guiding questions talk about Pop- art images (
they are on the website) , to activate pre-knowledge

What do you see on the picture?
Have you seen this before, where?
Do you know the name of the artist or the art movement?

Activity 2: Watch video fragment Andy Warhol
http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875/videos/andy-
warhol-mini-biography-2168460552
While listening: the students get a list of vocabulary related to the video
and have to tick the words.

Cultural icon, surrounded
neighbourhood, celebrities
disease, every day object
drawing lessons, subject
artist, silver painted

successful The Factory

The students have to answer the questions on the video fragment:

III. Answer these questions
1. What was the reason that Andy Warhol started drawing?
2. What were his favourite subjects?
3. Why was advertising so important to Andy Warhol?
4. Besides being an artist, Andy Warhol there was another reason why
Warhol became famous. What was that reason?



Activity 3: The students use the new acquired vocabulary in the cross
word puzzle on the worksheet.

Homework in your scrapbook: make a copy of two pictures of pop art,
put them in your scrapbook.

On internet or in the library find a Pop-art picture make a copy and
describe the picture and give your opinion about it.


1..Name of the artist, title of the art work, when it is made

2.What do you see in this picture?

3.What does the artist want to show?

4.Your opinion about the art work. Give two arguments.

5. Do you think it would be a good idea to use one of these pictures for a
t-shirt or school stuff?

Lesson 2- Graffiti


Recap of last lesson: An artist often uses current topics and ideas in his
work.

Like Andy Warhol , who used every day objects as a subject for his
work. Another American artist who expressed current ideas in his work
was Keith Haring. His work was almost a caricature of society. What
does this mean?

Activity 1: Have a look at these pictures, (Work of Keith haring is shown
at the website). Answer these questions.

- What do you see?

- What do you think the artist wanted to express?

In class: They discuss their findings.

Activity 2: Watch and read video fragment:
http://www.biography.com/people/keith-haring-246006/videos/keith-
haring-graffiti-and-pop-art-50013251908

Activity 3: Reading: Graffiti;






1. Read this text about graffiti .
2. Work in pairs and make 5 questions on the text.
3. Exchange the questions and answer your "new "questions".
4. Do you think Graffiti is an Art form? Explain your answer.
5. Make notes in your scrapbook


Activity 4: Make a drawing or cartoon in the style of Keith Haring on
one of these words or find your own word or statement.

The teacher ask the students if they understand the word statement.

Make a pencil sketch then draw the lines with a black
marker Love, War, Peace, Happiness, sadness etc

Lesson 3 - Comics

An artist is a creator and art is his creation. Wouldnt it be nice to create
your own superhero, who can do larger than life things? That is what a
American artists did /do in their comics. To escape their world they
created a dream world with superheroes.
If you were a hero what qualities, abilities and powers would you like to
have. What would you change in society?

Activity 1: warming-up: A few pictures of comic heroes are shown and
discussed in class


Activity 2: video fragment,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo7Dgacl7Cw student write
down are few characters that are being showed in the video.

Activity 3: Game: Who am I ?

In groups of four, one is a character, one makes notes and the others have
to ask questions to find out who the character is. As an example Batman
is given. The students fill in the given schedule and can use a list of
adjectives. Their characters can be discussed in class

Activity 4: writing: Create your own fantasy character.

Describe in circa 100 words his character, appearance features, actions
and powers.This task has to be illustrated with a drawing or picture.

week 5-Gadgets

Lesson 1 - Microsoft/Apple

Step 1) Show your students a picture of Steve Jobs and BIll Gates and
ask them the following questions:

1. Do you know who these two men are?
2. What do you know about them?
3. When did they start?
4. How did they grow? Influence on the World.

Step 2) Have your students watch these two clips and have them answer
the questions on the worksheet. You can find the answer key under the
tab answer keys. (In this section) Depending on your class have them
watch these clips individually or with the whole class.

Video 7 of 7

http://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805#steve-jobs-mini-
biography-36873921&awesm=~oC5lylid8wEZQc

Video 5 of 5

http://www.biography.com/people/bill-gates-9307520#bill-gates-mini-
biography-36892506&awesm=~oC5c1BWaoXgnPu

After watching the video and answered the questions ask the pupils the
following question:

Do you have an Apple or a Microsoft computer? Why (not)? (Or
something else made by either of them)
Which one do you prefer? Why?

Step 3) Have the pupils write down two things that they learned today
and why they think theyre interesting.

Step 4) Tell your students to look at assignments 1&2 under the tab
Silicon Valley, they have to do these assignments at home, so that they
are properly prepared next week and we have enough time for the
presentations.

You could give them the transcript for the clip if they have trouble
following it.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/silicon-
transcript/

Lesson 2 - Silicon Valley.

Step 1) Before you discuss the Youtube/PBS clip ask them the following
questions:

1) Have you ever heard of Silicon Valley?
2) Do you know what happens there?
3) Do you know which two famous entrepreneurs started their careers
here?

Step 2) After theyve answered these questions you're going to discuss
the clip and the answers they've given. You can ask them why they gave
certain answers. Don't spend to much time on this part, just take about 10
minutes to discuss their answers.

Step 2) For assignment 2 they need to do a presentation about a
company in Silicon Valley. This is something that they needed to do that
at home and today a couple of students will give their presentation. The
ones that don't get a turn have to record their presentation and need to
hand to upload it onto their scrapbook.

Lesson 3 - Gadgets of the future

Step 1) Ask your students the following question to activate their pre
knowledge:

1. What do you think of when you hear the word gadgets? If they cant
come up with anything give them the following examples: headphones,
I-phone, digital watch, Nintendo DS etc.

Then have them look at the following text:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/reviews/101-
gadgets-that-changed-the-world#slide-3

Have your students look at the first ten so that they have a general idea
of what they can think of when they hear the word gadgets.

Step 2) Have your students design their own gadget.

Before students start thinking of their own gadget they look at the
following text for inspiration.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/slideshow/7-gadgets-for-2014/

After reading the text they can design their own gadget. Students have to
describe the gadget and they can draw a picture of their gadget or look
for a picture online. They also have to write down, in approximatly 3 to 5
sentences, why they would like a gadget like that.

Step 3) A couple of pupils will tell the rest of the class, in about 3-7
sentences, what sort of gadget they designed and why they designed it.

Week 6 Test