Lesson Plan : Education For Peace and Tolerance / Italy

EDUCATION FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE

LESSON PLAN

TOPIC:           The Meaning of Faith and feelings

Skills:              -   oral production

   -  written production and listening

Level:                          -  A2 or pre-intermediate

Duration:        -  120 minutes

Organization: -  plenary and group work

Material:          -   song by Leonard Cohen “Hallelujia”( attached file 1)

Objectives:

Linguistics

-          To understand discourse in L2 while listening

   

 Communicative

-          To understand and produce texts  in L2.

Structure of the activity:

Pre-listening activity:  brainstorming on vocabulary concerning faith, feelings and  tolerance (idioms in different languages, for example: faith, self-esteem, relationship, feelings...)

Listening activity:  Listen to the song from you tube and then read the script of Cohen’s song analysing its meaning

Post-listening production: write your own small e-mail on faith and tolerance and its meaning. (attached File 2).

Project:  Look for a movie or another song  on peace and tolerance in L2 and share it with the class.

Hallelujah

Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you
To a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

I did my best, it wasn't much
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you
And even though
It all went wrong
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

Michela Chiappini,English Teacher Of Istituzione Scolastica Autonoma n.11 Vezzano Ligure/ Italy