1 Ruechuta – LP2
Aplng 808
Lesson Plan II: Happening around the world
************* General Information Lesson Title: Reading for everyday life
Class/Student Information: 6 Adult students Proficiency level of students: Intermediate to Advanced Length of Class: 2 hours a week
Overall Instructional Goal :
To be able to read and understand general English texts in everyday life Learning Objectives:
Students would be able to read and summarize CNN online current news.
How will you measure each objective?
Students will be asked to summarize what they have read in their own word and share with class Justification for Lesson:
To enhance self knowledge and ability to obtain more information from sources in English, and for pleasure
Materials:
Whiteboard, handouts and computer with internet access
The Lesson Plan (describe the activities)
WHY & HOW (justifications for activities &
grouping of students) Orientation ( 10 min.)
Instructor will talk about some current events in the world and ask students to share what they have known or heard recently. Teacher will write some interesting vocabulary from the discussion on the board during the talk.
To warm up and draw students attention to class activity
Transition: Specify today topic: “now we are going to focus on the current news about the mystery Malaysia Flight.”
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Teacher will show a short video clip of news on the website. Then instructor will give an article from CNN online newspaper to each student:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/world/asia/malaysia-airlines-plane/index.html?hpt=wo_c2. (provided in Appendix 1) Students will skim and scan the whole article of the “Mystery Malaysia Flight” on their own. A list of useful vocabulary and some grammar explanation will be provided. (listed in
Appendix 2)
familiar with the text. It would help lessen students’ reading anxiety.
Transition: Assign sentences in the article to each students: “I will divide the article into six parts and you will have to work on your own part and share with class.” (divided by color in Appendix1) Engagement ( 45 min.)
Instructor will let student work on their own part of reading. Students will have time 3-5 minutes to think about their assigned part of reading. Then Students will be asked to read their part aloud before explain what they have read to class; students will mainly tell about what happened, what opinions have been given according to what they have read.
This activity is to allow students to practice intensive reading skill.
Transition: 5 minutes break: “Let see if everyone still remember what you have read. I would like everyone to write your own summary about the article and share it with class.”
Evaluation ( 40 min.)
Students will be asked to write their own summary about the article. The summary will be half page to a page long.
Students will be asked to use at least two reported speeches in the summary. Each student will read his/her summary to class. Some feedback will be provided from classmate and teacher.
This activity is to check if students understand the article or not.
Summary Statement(s): Provide overall feedback for the lesson: “Great job everyone! Does anyone have any questions about the article? I would like you to keep reading, so I will ask you to read at least one article during the week and bring it to class next week.”
Expansion ( 10 min.)
Students will be asked to read one story on newspaper or magazine and write a half page summary. Students will bring their story and a summary to share with class next week.
This activity allows students to keep reading outside class; at least one article. It allows students to practice their intensive reading skill.
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APPENDIX1:
Mystery Malaysia flight may have lost
signal, gone hundreds of miles off course
By Greg Botelho. Michael Pearson and Jethro Mullen, CNNupdated 9:20 PM EDT, Tue March 11, 2014
(CNN) -- It was 1:30 a.m. when Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 lost all communications, including important transponder signals that send data on altitude, direction and speed. Still, it showed up on radar for about 1 hour, 10 minutes longer -- until it vanished, having apparently moved away from its intended destination, hundreds of miles off course.
Those details -- told to CNN by a senior Malaysian air force official, who declined to be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media -- seemingly shed more light on what happened to the aircraft that mysteriously went missing early Saturday.
But if these assertions are true -- and other reports, citing a different Malaysian official, cast doubt on them -- many big questions remain. Why were the communications lost? Why was the Boeing 777 going the direction it was? And where did it end up?
"Something happened to that airplane, that was obviously out of the norm, that caused it to depart from its normal flight path," said Mark Weiss, a former 777 pilot now with the Washington-based Spectrum Group consulting firm. "... It's difficult not to speculate."
Peter Goelz, former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, thinks all this information -- if correct -- ominously suggests that someone purposefully cut off the transponder and steered the plane from its intended destination.
"This kind of deviation in course is simply inexplicable," said Goelz.
Other experts aren't convinced that there were bad actors -- be they hijackers or an ill-intentioned crew member. They say there could have been some sort of sudden catastrophic electronic failure or more that spurred the crew to try to turn around, with no luck.
"Perhaps there was a power problem," said veteran pilot Kit Darby, former president of Aviation Information Resources, adding that backup power systems would only last about an hour. "(It is) natural for the pilot, in my view, to return to where he knows the airports."
Still, while they have theories, even those who have piloted massive commercial airliners like this one admit that they can't conclude anything until the plane is found. For now, the massive multinational search has yielded no breakthrough -- which has only added to the heartache for the friends and family of the 239 passengers and crew on board.
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The Malaysian air force official's revelations may provide more direction, though clarity and closure are still elusive.
"There are still as many possibilities out there, maybe more, now that we know about the transponders being off and the length of time that plane flew in the air without them," said CNN law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes. "It still leaves mechanical, terrorism (and) other issues as much in the air as they were before."
Intentional or catastrophic mechanical failure?
According to the Malaysian air force official, the plane's transponder apparently stopped working at about the time flight controllers lost contact with it, near the coast of Vietnam.
The air force eventually and totally lost track of the plane over Pulau Perak, a tiny island in the Strait of Malacca -- many hundreds of miles from the usual flight path for aircraft traveling between Kuala Lumpur and Beijing, the official said.
If the data cited by the source is correct, the aircraft was flying away from Beijing and on the opposite side of the Malay Peninsula from its scheduled route.
Why would the transponder -- an electrical instrument in commercial airline cockpits that continuously transmits information such as altitude, location, direction and speed -- have gone off?
Goelz, the former NTSB managing director, and others point out the only reason for someone to intentionally turn off the transponder is to conceal the plane's location and direction. Someone with nefarious intentions of taking over an aircraft and steering it to where it wasn't supposed to be -- or perhaps planning on crashing it -- might do just that.
"You have to have a very deliberate process to turn the transponder off," he said. "... There might still be mechanical explanations on what was going on, but those mechanical explanations are narrowing quickly."
Anthony Roman, a trained pilot and consultant, said that a fast-moving fire might have moved through the cockpit and rendered everything, including the crew, effectively powerless to do much more than turn the plane around.
"Fires are insidious," Roman told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "They can happen quickly and knock out multiple systems quickly."
Darby, for one, believes purely mechanical issues remain the most valid possibility now. His main point is: "Everything is electrical." In other words, if there's some sort of "catastrophic failure" for whatever reason, that could knock out systems like the transponder.
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If that would happen, the plane could fly for some time without electricity but not indefinitely. Any attempts to steer it would be harder in the dark without functioning flight instruments said Darby, a retired United captain.
Questions swirl after airliner vanishes
Whether the air force official's account is true, that possibility and others make the mystery more and more confounding.
"You couldn't make this story up," said Michael Goldfarb, a former official with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Terrorism a possibility
Authorities have said they're looking at all possibilities to explain what happened to the Malaysia Airlines aircraft.
Earlier Tuesday, the head of the international police organization Interpol said that his agency increasingly believed the incident was not related to terrorism.
"The more information we get, the more we're inclined to conclude that it was not a terrorist incident," Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said at a news conference in Lyon, France. Yet -- speaking Tuesday about what he called a "very disturbing mystery" -- CIA Director John Brennan insisted terrorism remains a possibility.
"I don't know (what happened)," he said. "But I don't think people should, at this point, rule out any of these lines of inquiry."
The two passengers who have dominated headlines the last two days entered Malaysia using valid Iranian passports, Noble said. But they used stolen Austrian and Italian passports to board the missing Malaysian plane, he said.
Noble gave their names and ages as Pouri Nourmohammadi, 18, and Delavar Seyed Mohammad Reza, 29.
Malaysian police had earlier identified Nourmohammadi, using a slightly different name and age, and said they believed he was trying to migrate to Germany.
Inspector General Khalid Abu Bakar of the Royal Malaysian Police said it doesn't appear the younger Iranian posed a threat.
"We have been checking his background," Khalid said, noting "other police organizations" have been consulted. "And we believe that he is not likely to be a member of any terrorist group," Khalid said.
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After he failed to arrive in Frankfurt, the final destination of his ticket, his mother contacted authorities, Khalid said. According to ticketing records, the ticket to Frankfurt was booked under the stolen Austrian passport.
Extensive search for plane
No one knows where these two men and the other 237 people on the plane ended up. Every lead that has raised hopes of tracing the commercial jet has so far petered out.
Over the past few days, search teams have been scouring tens of thousands of square miles of sea between the northeast coast of Malaysia and southwest Vietnam. They have also been searching off the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, in the Strait of Malacca, and north into the Andaman Sea.
The search also encompasses the land in between the two areas of sea.
But it could be days, weeks or even months before the searchers find anything that begins to explain what happened to the plane, which disappeared early Saturday en route to Beijing.
In the case of Air France Flight 447, which disappeared over the Atlantic in 2009, it took five days just to find the first floating wreckage.
And it was nearly two years before investigators found the bulk of the French plane's wreckage and the majority of the bodies of the 228 people on board, about 12,000 feet below the surface of the ocean.
The Gulf of Thailand, the area where the missing Malaysian plane was last detected, is much shallower, with a maximum depth of only 260 feet and an average depth of about 150 feet. Still, they have to find it first. The newly disclosed revelation about the plane's direction doesn't help, as it means less certainty and more time for currents to move the wreckage around.
"Crucial time is passing," David Gallo, with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday. "That search area -- that haystack -- is getting bigger and bigger and bigger."
Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Australia, the United States, China and Malaysia are all taking part in the search, White House spokesman Jay Carney said. Japan has also dispatched a team to the area, with Japanese military and coast guard crews likely to follow, its foreign ministry announced Wednesday.
That helps takes all forms, such as many as 10 Chinese satellites monitoring the area to the helicopters ready-to-dispatch off of U.S. warships.
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CNN aviation correspondent Richard Quest described the search as "extremely painstaking work," suggesting a grid would have been drawn over the ocean for teams to comb, bit by bit. Quest said that the expanding search area shows how little idea rescue officials have of where the plane might be. But he's still confident they'll find it eventually.
"It's not hopeless, by any means. They will find it," he said. "They have to. They have to know what happened."
Until they do, patience is growing thin for friends and family members of those aboard Flight 370.
As a middle-aged man -- the father of one such passenger -- shouted Tuesday at an airline agent in Beijing: "Time is passing by."
APPENDIX2:
Vocabulary (definition from: http://www.macmillandictionary.com/)
- transponder (N) a piece of electronic equipment used for communicating with radio or radar. It sends a reply every time that it receives a signal.
- vanish(ed) (V) to disappear in a sudden and mysterious way - assertion(s) (N) a definite statement or claim that something is true - norm (N) [COUNTABLE] something that is usual or expected
- speculate (V) to consider or discuss why something has happened or what might happen - ominously (ADV) making you think that something bad will happen
- purposefully (ADV) intended to achieve something useful
- steer(ed) (V) to control the direction in which a vehicle moves
- deviation (N) a difference in the usual or expected way of doing something - inexplicable (ADJ) impossible to explain
- catastrophic (ADJ) causing a lot of damage, or making a lot of people suffer - spur(red) (V) to cause something to happen
- veteran (N) someone who has a lot of experience doing a particular activity
- conclude (V) to decide that something is true after looking at all the evidence you have - breakthrough (N) a discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work
8 previously hidden or secret
- elusive (ADJ) difficult or impossible to achieve - nefarious (ADJ) evil, or dishonest
- deliberate (ADJ) intended, not done by chance or by accident
- rendered (V) to make someone or something be or become something
- insidious (ADJ) something that is insidious is dangerous because it seems to be harmless or not important but in fact causes harm or damage - swirl (V) to move quickly in circles, or to make something move in this way - confound(ing) (V) if you are confounded by something, you cannot understand it
- inclined (V) to tend to behave in a particular way or to have a particular attitude or opinion
- incident (N) something that happens, especially a violent, criminal, or dangerous event - insist(ed) (V) to say very firmly that something must happen or must be done
- inquiry (N) an official examination of a crime, accident, problem, etc., in order to get information or the truth
- dominate(d) (V) to be the most important issue, activity, problem, etc. in a particular situation
- threat (N) an occasion when someone says that they will cause you harm or problems, especially if you do not do what they tell you to do - peter(ed) out (V) to gradually become smaller or weaker before coming to an end or
disappearing completely
- scour(ing) (V) to search a place or document thoroughly for something - encompass(es) (V) to include or surround an area completely
- wreckage (N) the parts of a vehicle or building that remain after it has been severely damaged
- bulk (N) something that is very large, wide, and solid
- haystack (N) a large pile of hay in a field, that has been built up and covered in order to store it
- dispatch(ed) (V) to send someone or something somewhere
9 Grammar: Reported Speech
(Explanation from: http://www.edufind.com/english/grammar/reported_speech.php)
Tense Changes When Using Reported Speech
Normally, the tense in reported speech is one tense back in time from the tense in direct speech: She said, "I am tired." She said that she was tired.
NOTE:
1. You do not need to change the tense if the reporting verb is in the present, or if the original statement was about something that is still true, e.g.
- He says he has missed the train but he'll catch the next one. - We explained that it is very difficult to find our house.
2. These modal verbs do not change in reported speech: might, could, would, should, ought to, e.g.
- We explained that it could be difficult to find our house. - She said that she might bring a friend to the party.
