Friday 11 September 2009

TASK 3 - WWW LESSON PLAN

WORLD OF SHOES
LEVEL : FORM 2

TIME : 1 HOUR

AIMS : To find specific information on a website and to practise vocabulary that associated

with shoes.

TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:

One computer per group of 2-3 students with an internet connection and a web browser.
Websites:
www.bata.com and www.readwritethink.org/crossword

PREPARATION:
1. Locate sites dedicated to shoes.
2. Using the information on the site, prepare a worksheet

PROCEDURE:
1. Gives each group a handout containing pictogram of shoes material. Asks students whether they have seen the symbols before. Discuss with students about the symbols and where they can find them. Asks students on how many types of shoes do they know.
2. Give the worksheet prepared to each group. Ask them if they can answer any of the questions in the worksheet. They can write their answer if they know it. Tell the students that the answers to all the questions are available online.
3. Send students to the site chosen (
www.bata.com), and ask them to complete the worksheet in their own group. Compare the answers with the answer s they do it on their own.
4. While the students doing this, ask them to list any vocabulary that is new to them or interest or difficult to them.
5. When all the students have finished, discuss the answers with them. Deal with any vocabulary problems they encountered and discuss on what interesting fact they learn from the website.
6. Students are asks to make their own crossword puzzle based on the list of vocabulary they have listed earlier online (
www.readwritethink.org/crossword ) and then print it out.
7. Students can use their crossword puzzle to test the rest of the class vocabulary.



Thursday 3 September 2009

Hypertext!

NELSON MANDELA


Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born in
Transkei, South Africa on July 18, 1918. His father was Chief Henry Mandela of the Tembu Tribe. Mandela himself was educated at University College of Fort Hare and the University of Witwatersrand and qualified in law in 1942. He joined the African National Congress in 1944 and was engaged in resistance against the ruling National Party's apartheid policies after 1948. He went on trial for treason in 1956-1961 and was acquitted in 1961.

After the banning of the ANC in 1960, Nelson Mandela argued for the setting up of a military wing within the ANC. In June 1961, the ANC executive considered his proposal on the use of violent tactics and agreed that those members who wished to involve themselves in Mandela's campaign would not be stopped from doing so by the ANC. This led to the formation of
Umkhonto we Sizwe. Mandela was arrested in 1962 and sentenced to five years' imprisonment with hard labour. In 1963, when many fellow leaders of the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe were arrested, Mandela was brought to stand trial with them for plotting to overthrow the government by violence. His statement from the dock received considerable international publicity. On June 12, 1964, eight of the accused, including Mandela, were sentenced to life imprisonment. From 1964 to 1982, he was incarcerated at Robben Island Prison, off Cape Town; thereafter, he was at Pollsmoor Prison, nearby on the mainland.

During his years in prison, Nelson Mandela's reputation grew steadily. He was widely accepted as the most significant black leader in South Africa and became a potent symbol of resistance as the anti-
apartheid movement gathered strength. He consistently refused to compromise his political position to obtain his freedom.


Nelson Mandela was released on February 11, 1990. After his release, he plunged himself wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier. In 1991, at the first national conference of the ANC held inside South Africa after the organization had been banned in 1960, Mandela was elected President of the ANC while his lifelong friend and colleague, Oliver Tambo, became the organisation's National Chairperson.