A Bite Of Culture-india: Lohri Festival x4259

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A BITE OF CULTURE LESSON PLAN

ANABEL LANUZA ANA RODRÍGUEZ CULTURE – TEACHING ENGLISH AS L3 PROF.: ANNA PUJOL

LESSON PLAN Level: P5 – Third term. Topic: Indian culture – Lohri Festival. Learning objectives:  Be aware of the similarities and differences between the both cultures (Indian and Catalan).  Recognise some vocabulary related to the Lohri Festival.  Be able to participate actively in the activity. Description: This lesson plan is based on knowing the Indian culture, which belong to an Englishspeaking country, while children learn English. The session is divided in three parts: 

Introduction: When children arrive to the class, they will find a box in which there will be a letter from India. The teacher will ask if they know something about that country and he/she will read the letter. Continuing with the introduction, the teacher can make some questions about legends in Catalonia in order to identify some similarities with our culture.

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Development: Then, the teacher will play a video in which children will see some specific elements of the Lohri Festival. During the video, the teacher can comment the different elements to facilitate the comprehension by children. Moreover, the teacher will specify some similarities with one of our holidays: Sant Joan. Hence, the children will become aware of the relation between the both cultures (Indian and Catalan cultures). Finally, there will be a lot of cards with different images of those elements and these will be distributed around the classroom. They will have to find the elements that appear in the video and some cultural items of our Sant Joan Festival. When all the pictures have been found, students will have to classify them in two columns: Punjab (India)/ Lohri Festival and Catalonia/ Sant Joan.

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Conclusion: To sum up, the teacher and every children will be sitting in circle. The teacher will explain that Indian people use mandalas to relax themselves. In order to all the cultural knowledge worked, students will have to say something learnt during the session with a ball of yarn in their hands. When a child finishes to explain the learnt information, he/she will have to throw the ball without dropping the thread. At the end of the activity, the teacher will take a photo to show a special mandala created by children with their knowledge.

Materials:  Letter from Indian child1.  Video: Sunder Mundriye – Nursey Rhymes – Children’s Popular Hindi Songs2.  Cards with pictures of the Indian and Catalan Festivals 3.  A ball of yarn.

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ANNEX

ANNEX 1: INDIAN LETTER

Hi there! I’m Kalu. I’m 6 years old. I’m from Punjab, India. Do you know where it is? I’m writing to you because I’m very worried. We are going to celebrate the Lohri Festival. This Festival the story of Dulla Bhati. I’m sure that you don’t know who he is. He is a man who robbed from the rich and he gave to the less fortunate. It’s a typical legend from Punjab. But we have a problem. We don’t find the things that we need for celebrating the Lohri Festival. Can you help us?

ANNEX 2: VIDEO OF THE LOHRI FESTIVAL You can find the video in the next link: http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/punjabi-song-for-the-winter-festival-lohri/

ANNEX 3: CARDS WITH THE PICTURES SANT JOAN

LOHRI FESTIVAL