Lesson Plan
Objectives:
β’ To explore the use of relative clauses to build and report on the Ancient Greek news
β’ To produce a written and verbal Ancient Greek news report
β’ To recognise the importance of direct and indirect speech to create convincing news reports
Materials:
β’ Laptops/computers
β’ Whiteboard/large sheet of paper
β’ Paper/pen
β’ Ancient Greek newspaper article or script
Structure:
Start:
β’ Explain the lesson objectives and how the students will be working to achieve them (15 mins).
Middle:
β’ Brainstorm what would make a good story for an Ancient Greek News Report (15 mins).
β’ Each student to write their own story β first draft. They need to create a story based on Ancient Greek times, with a headline and including relative clauses, direct and indirect speech (20 mins).
β’ Stimulate discussion/debate involving each student to share their stories (15 mins).
β’ Read through a printed off news script β highlighting direct and indirect speech, plus relative clauses (15 mins).
End:
β’ If there is time left, each student to present their news report to the rest of the class (20 mins).
β’ Summarise the lesson objectives and ask for any feedback or questions (5 mins).
Additional notes: Remind the students to use relative clauses when writing/discussing their stories, plus emphasizing the importance of direct and indirect speech to create convincing news reports. For example, βThe Mycenaean King heard from a messenger that the palace had been attacked by β¦.β (direct speech) or βThe Mycenaean King was told that the palace had been attacked by...β (indirect speech).