Lesson Topics: the unconscious, personality
Skill Focus: Reading, Speaking, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.75 hours
Lesson Plan Download: carl-jung-shadow-upper-intermediate-022025.docx
- The lesson starts with warm-up questions about personality and dreams.
- Next, students read a 253-word passage summarizing Carl Jung's concept of the Shadow: a hidden part of our personality that we often ignore or deny. The passage also describes some 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.
UPPER-INTERMEDIATE (B2/C1) 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 said or done 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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Comprehension Question Answer Key
1- ...
2- Projection is when someone attributes their own hidden traits or emotions to others instead of recognizing them in themselves.
3- True.
4- Dreams can reveal hidden aspects of our personality and help us understand our unconscious mind.
5-The purpose is to understand and accept our shadow. This us grow personally and can improve mental health.
6- Understanding the Shadow can improve self-awareness, emotional control, and relationships.
7- ...
Vocabulary: 1-e, 2-i, 3-f, 4-h, 5-c, 6-d, 7-g, 8-b, 9-j, 10-a, 11-k, 12-l
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Collocations 1-a, 2-e, 3-b, 4-d, 5-c
[1] Inspiration for some questions taken from https://easc.osu.edu/sites/easc.osu.edu/files/exploring-archetypes-manga-gr9-ela-lessonplan-all.pdf