Lesson Topics: the unconscious, personality
Skill Focus: Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.75 hours
Lesson Plan Download: carl-jung-shadow-advanced-lesson-022025.docx
- The lesson starts with warm-up questions about personality and dreams.
- Next, students watch a 3:51-minute YouTube video entitled Embracing Your Dark Side: Carl Jung on the Shadow. The video attempts to summarize Carl Jung's concept of the shadow: a hidden part of our personality that we often ignore or deny. The video ends by providing a few methods for "shadow work", which is the process of accepting our shadow.
- The video is followed by comprehension and follow-up questions.
- Next, students review the 12 vocabulary items by matching them to their corresponding definitions.
- After vocabulary matching, students form discussion questions with the target vocabulary.
- There is one debate topic on whether dreams are meaningful or meaningless.
- The lesson has one role-play activity between a husband and wife; the husband's task is to tell his wife that she's projecting the flaws of her own personality onto him.
- This is followed by an activity in which students design a robot with the perfect personality. To do this, they must select five personality traits they'd like the robot to have and five human prototypes that embody each trait.
- Next, the lesson presents a few famous quotations about awareness and personality.
- Finally, the lesson ends with a review of vocabulary and collocations before presenting some final discussion questions.
ADVANCED (C1/C2) Lesson on Jung’s Shadow
Warm-up-Questions
- What personality traits do you admire most in others? Are there any traits you dislike? Why?
- Have you ever had a moment where you said or did something that surprised even yourself?
- Have you ever had a dream that made you think deeply about yourself? What was it about?
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Vocabulary: 1- blurt out, 2- therapy, 3- impulsive, 4- self-reflection, 5- projection, 6- attribute, 7- snap at, 8- unconscious, 9- resentment, 10- suppress, 11- confront, 12- hostile
Top exports: The United States-petroleum, Canada- petroleum, Mexico-cars, China-communication devices, Brazil-soya beans, The U.K.-cars, France-aircraft, Germany-cars, South Korea-electronic circuits, Australia-coal, Greenland-fish, Russia- petroleum
Collocations 1-d, 2-g, 3-a, 4-f, 5-c, 6-e, 7-b
[1] Inspiration for some questions taken from https://easc.osu.edu/sites/easc.osu.edu/files/exploring-archetypes-manga-gr9-ela-lessonplan-all.pdf