1. Universidad Latina de Costa Rica
Literature Lesson plan 4
Kenneth Aguilar Blanco
Diego Aguilar Arce
Activity 4 Topic: Learning a foreign language through a short story
Level B2
Literature
Goal
Inferring the falling action and resolution of a short story.
Technique Video discussion.
Objective Inferring main ideas from a short story.
Values Friendship, Love, Loyalty.
Segment Time Instructor’s Task
Participants
Learning Tasks
Rationale
Schema
activation
5 min - T will divide the class into 4 groups and
then he writes the tittle: “Tell Tale Heart”
on the board and ask each group to
discuss what do they think the story is
about.
- Students are
given the chance
to use their
background
knowledge in
order to infer what
is the story about.
- This part of the
class will allow
students to
activate their
prior knowledge.
Plot
activity
20 min - T will show a short video of the “Tell Tale
Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe, but students
will watch only have and then in groups
they will come up with answers for the
following questions.
- 1) Why is the man mad?
- 2) What do you think happen to the
Oldman ?
- 3) What will the man do with the
Oldman’s eye?
- 4) How do you think the story ends?
- Then, students watch the rest of the
video and compare their answers with
the original story.
- Ss wil infer the
second half of the
story and the end
by using their
prior knowledge
and creativity
- This section of
the class will
enable Ss to test
their attention
span, and
creativity.
2. Annex 1:
Video: Tell Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDLLHTdVSgU
Chart:
Expansion
activity
15min - T will give students a chart where
students must fill in 3 examples where
the narrator is trying to establish his
sanity and 3 examples where the
narrator sanity is called into question.
- Ss fill in a chart
with 6 supporting
ideas from the
story.
This part of the
class will allow
students to
recall important
details of the
plot.
Sanity Insanity
