ES project how to 2020-2021

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 1

Lesson 21-1-2020

I'll go through the presentation & then you can:

1.  ask questions
2. make groups
3. go through the presentation again before next week Thursday so you can write down any other questions and start brainstorming.

Goals: 

1. You will have listened/read/practiced with idioms and phrasal verbs about dealing with difficult situations.
   
2. You will have formed groups
3. you will have thought about the topics for the presentation
4. you will have written down any questions that you think of while going through the presentation again.

We find ourselves in unusual times. 

The pandemic of the Corona virus affects everyone. We watch the news on a daily basis to see what measures world leaders take and how society responds to these developments. Our school has been closed for a while and will stay closed until at least the 8th of February 

Those of us who are lucky enough to be well and virus-free

 may be finding the sudden changes to our lifestyles challenging. With this in mind, I thought we’d focus on words and phrases around the theme of dealing with difficult situations.

Let’s start with some nice idioms.

 If you make the best of it,

 you make a difficult situation as pleasant and positive as it can possibly be.

If you look on the bright side,

 you think about the advantages of a difficult or bad situation.

To count your blessings is

 to feel grateful for the good things in your life during a period in which there are lots of difficulties.

If you rise to the challenge,

 you show strength of character in a bad situation, dealing successfully with it.

Finally for idioms, in a difficult situation, if you grin and bear it, 

you accept it without complaining.

There are some useful phrasal verbs in this area too.

 If you put up with a bad situation, 

you accept it and deal with it.

To get through a difficult period

 of your life is to manage to live through it.

To resign yourself to something bad in your situation

 is to accept that you cannot change it.

I don’t like working in the evenings but I’ve ________ it.

1. get through
2. count your blessings
3. resigned myself to
4. grin and bear it

It’s going to be tough, but we’ll _______ it together.

1. resigned myself to
2. get through
3. rise to the challenge
4. look on the bright side

It’s not an ideal situation but, _________, I get to spend more time with my family.

1. grinning and bearing it
2. rise to the challenge
3. looking on the bright side
4. putting up with it

We’re all healthy and we have food in the cupboard. You’ve just got to ________, haven’t you?

1. count your blessings
2. grin and bear it
3. resign yourself to it
4. rise to the challenge

It’s a tricky situation for everyone but we have no choice – we just have to _______.

1. count our blessings
2. put up with it

For now, we’re stuck in this apartment, so we’ll just have to _______.

1. count our blessings
2. make the best of it

There’s nothing you can do to change the situation. You just have to ______.

1. grin and bear it
2. count your blessings

Everyone is dealing with it in different ways.

There are already a lot of tips for adults on how to deal with working at home with their kids. 

But what about you?

Everyone is dealing with it in different ways.

How do you do things to stop yourself from feeling boxed up?

Everyone is dealing with it in different ways.

How do you get through this? 

Can you still concentrate? 

Can you stay away from the TV/Netflix/Shows/TikTok

What is your successformula (if you have one)?

Your assignment will be 

to make a tips/how to presentation clip about dealing with homeschooling and the lockdown. (That means your audience are students of your age group.)

So how do you do it:

Pay attention during the lessons

Ask questions to see if you've understood

Make use of the presentation slides as your How to guide to start this project that we are going to work on for the next 3 weeks.

Discuss and brainstorm in a group of 3/4

Make groups and start writing down ideas.

So come up with tips on what students could/should/must do at home to get through these times and still do well at school. 

think of a: Bonus tip 

on how to deal with being with your family constantly

Finish with 

an inspirational quote or message that you'd like to share.

Create

 a presentation 

Then record the screen and create a voice-over to present your tips

You can create

A PowerPoint

A Prezi

A Powtoon

A presentation with any other presentation program

Everyone is going to speak

Next lesson

You will learn more about modal verbs and linking words + start the next step in the brainstorming session and structuring your How To clip

Homework for next week Thursday

You need to have written your groupname with the names of all the members in the google document on Classroom.

You need to have started a brainstorming document which you give me access to!

Sources:

https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2020/04/01/making-the-best-of-it-dealing-with-life-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/