Lesson Topics: Americans, Europeans, stereotypes
Skill Focus: Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: europeans-americans-advanced-lesson-062024.docx
Lesson Overview:
- Note: This lesson should be accessible to both upper-intermediate and advanced levels.
- After warm-up questions and a prediction exercise, students watch a YouTube video (3:48) from 2018 on what Europeans think of Americans. The video is from 2018 though the comments are still relevant (especially considering that Trump is running for re-election).
- The video is followed by recall activity, reading comprehension questions, and a vocabulary-matching activity. Next, students match vocabulary from the video to definitions and then form discussion questions using the target vocabulary.
- There are three debate topics related to the U.S., Europe, and Donald Trump. Next, the lesson has one role-play scenario involving a friend who is considering moving to the other student's home country.
- As a bonus, there is a short activity asking students to compare their country to the United States in terms of education, health, food, and other criteria.
- After famous quotations, the lesson ends with a review of vocabulary and collocations before presenting some final discussion questions.
UPPER-INT/ADVANCED (C1) Lesson on Americans & Europeans
Warm-up-Questions
- Where was the last country that you visited? What was your opinion of the people there?
- How would you describe Europeans?
- What do you think are the biggest differences between European and American lifestyles?
Prediction: You are about to watch a video describing what Europeans think of Americans. What positive and negative ideas do you think the video will mention? Make a list below.
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Comprehension Question Answer Key
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- Recurring ideas include loudness, obesity, fast food, Donald Trump, and guns.
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- She is saying that Americans embrace their new identity as Americans while Austrians identify with the heritage of their family.
- The phrase “from dishwasher to millionaire” is used to express the idea that anyone can make it if they work hard.
Vocabulary 1-keen on, 2-dominated, 3-systemic, 4-superficial, 5-put me off, 6-portions, 7-idolize, 8-stereotypes, 9-heritage, 10-restricted
Collocations 1-b, 2-d, 3-c, 4-a