Week One: Ukraine

Week One

Student map example

Student map example

 

Country: Ukraine

Time Allotment	Activity	Materials Needed
10 minutes	Personal introductions (using a paper ball toss to choose volunteers to share)   Model Introduction: My name is ___________________. I am from ________________. I am ____________ years old.	·         “Ball” (made of paper and tape) ·         Model introduction written on the board or on a large sheet of paper.
5 minutes	Introduce theme of this year’s English Club: Around the World. Introduce focus vocabulary (with translations in Ukrainian): ·         Currency ·         Dish ·         Population ·         Capital ·         Continent	·         Powerpoint (can be found here)
10—15 minutes	Powerpoint on Ukraine: Students fill in cities, rivers and mountains. Also, in the extra space, students write full sentences about the country using models.   Students complete the “Weekly Country Report.”	·         Paper with blank Ukrainian map for each student ·         Weekly Country Report
10—15 minutes	Sunflower Potato Prints   You (the teacher/facilitator) cut the potatoes in half. Use a circular half to dip in brown paint to create the center of the sunflower. Then, cut the other half into a triangle shape (yellow paint for petals) and an oblong or oval shape (green paint for leaves)	·         Potatoes ·         Knife ·         Paints (green, yellow, brown) ·         Paper ·         Napkins/towels for clean-up

Students painting sunflowers using potatoes

Student examples of potato-painted sunflowers

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