Learning Technique: Who am I?

• Upper Secondary (Key Stage 4)
• Lower Secondary (Key Stage 3)
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Introduction

During this lesson students have to understand who a certain person is (who am I?) thanks to a series of hints.

Instructions

Give the students the time to read the entire description well first.

When students have read the description, divide them in pairs to discuss the possible options. Eventually they can start putting crosses in the right places to get to the right answer.

And now...

... you are the storyteller

Who am I?

Learning Technique

I am Dutch

1

I live in the 20th century.

2

I am a politician. 

3

I belong to a socialist party.

4

I make sure old people get their state pension. 

5

Who am I?

Winston Churchill

Johan Rudolf Thorbecke

Adolf Hitler

Willem Drees

Pieter Jelles Troelstra

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I am not Dutch.

1

I have been dead for more than 10 centuries.

2

I lived the the era of monks and knights.

3

I belonged to the second estate (class system).

4

I am buried in Germany.

5

Who am I?

Maarten Luther

Augustus

Karel de Grote

Julius Caesar

Plato

Ötzi

Aardappeloproer

1917

Enkele Amsterdamse vrouwen zagen dat er een schip vol aardappelen in een van de grachten lag. Ze gingen erop af en plunderden het schip: hun schorten vol aardappelen. De dag erna waren er meer plunderaars. Pas nadat zes mensen door het leger werden doodgeschoten, keerde de rust terug