Aberto's New Neighbours

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Aberto's New Neighbours

AIM

“By the end of this lesson, you will have learnt vocabulary relating to new neighbours and will have discussed preconceptions and diversity.”

preconceptions = vooroordelen

wat betekent het woord:
DISPUTE

1. Geschil
2. Conflict
3. Onenigheid
4. Redetwist

What is a synonym for:
STAFF

1. personnel
2. employees
3. workers
4. labourers

If you put up with something, what does that mean?

We are going to read a short story called
‘Alberto’s New Neighbours’
What do you think the plot of the story could be?

Task

• Highlight the sentence where you people give an opinion.

You can now close your laptop, we will continue later 

Why and how do the characters behave the way they do?

Ask a student (with a sufficient language level) to briefly summarise the story.

Then ask 3 random students at which point they realised that the protagonist(s) were not human.

Groep idee gaat in het midden

Ideeën leerling 1

Ideeën leerling 2

Ideeën leerling 4

Ideeën leerling 3

Individual Task

Focusing on the vocabulary and phrases that you have highlighted in the story, write down on your area on the paper what you think the theme of the story was. 

Do you think that it is applicable to people as well as animals? 

Group Task

Discuss the answers to the questions, preferably in English, and agree on (a) common opinion(s).

Write those in the middle rectangle.

!!! Listen to and consider ALL of the opinions of group members !!!

Share your group idea.
only one answer per group

Group discussion

“What is the theme of the story? 

(what is the author trying to say about life?)

Write your group idea in the middle of the paper

Class discussion

“Do we let out preconceptions dictate how we behave?” 

Some idea questions to guide discussion (only if necessary)

- Why do you think that the dogs and cats didn’t get on with each other initially? (Prejudices/diversity)

- What might you have done differently? (Not prejudged?)

- How would the story have been different if the cats had not prejudged the dogs?

Group Theme:
Write down what your group thinks the theme of this story was.

Answer one of the following questions:

What they have learnt from today’s lesson.
OR
What have you thought about in a different way from how you previously did?
OR
What do you think the most important message of this lesson is?