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• Foreign language
• MBO
• Studiejaar 3

Literature lesson

Read>> Understand>> Transfer >> Write

What does Failure mean to you?

Short

Watch this short clip, and we'll be talking about it!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ca9mhizbj34

Aims

Language:

• Watch a short video about failure
• Read, translate a two lines from a poem about failure.

Skills: 

• You are going to critically think about the concept of failure and establish a learning moment out of it.
• Write a short paragraph about your your experience with failure and ONE new PoV that you've learned about failure.

Plan

1. Intro                                                                                       5m.
2. Teaser>  YouTube short & Questions                             5m.
3. Read the lines of the poem                                                5m.
4.  Quiz about poem                                                                10m.
5. Wirting activity                                                                    10m.
6. Exit ticket & Closing                                                           5m.

What is this video about?

“Failure” by Amos Russel Wells   5m.

• Read the following lines of the poem from the screen. 
• Think about the following questions:
• What did the 1st line of every stanza begin with?
• What did the 2nd line of every stanza begin with?
• Why?

“Failure” by Amos Russel Wells

Failure is a rocky hill:

 Climb it! Climb it with a will! 

Difficult words

Rocky hill >>

Rocks: rotsen

climb: klimmen

Will: wilskracht

Listen to the reading  10m.

• Listen to the reading of the lines                   5m.
• Take the quiz about vocabulary after reading to understand vocab better.

Failure is a rocky hill!

'Rocks' means........

1. rotsen
2. stenen

Climb it! Climb it with a will!

Climb means doorloop.

1. False
2. True

What did the poet mean with "Climb it! Climb it with a will!"

If you climb the "rocky hill", what happen?

What do you see?

Failure is ......

1. a negative experience.
2. a step forward success.
3. a part of being human.
4. is the end of the world!:(

How do you feel now about failure?

Write down a story of about 100 words on a paper     5m.

• Begin with your name.
• Remember a failure situation (your experience, somebody you know) or maybe you read about it
• Why was it a failure?
• Write down in English ONE positive point that you/ the person who experience it would learn from this situation. 
• Done? Fill in the following slide>>

ONE thing you’ve learned,
ONE interesting thing,
ONE question you still have

Let's check our aims again:

Language:

• Watch a short video about failure
• Read, translate a two lines from a poem about failure.

Skills: 

• You are going to critically think about the concept of failure and establish a learning moment out of it.
• Write a short paragraph about your your experience with failure and ONE new PoV that you've learned about failure.