Genetically modified food

Lesson plan
 Lesson plan.

 Grade: 3rd High school.

 Time: 4 hours

 Unit: “Science and Technology”.

 Theme: “GM food”.
 Standars:
 O.F.T.
◦ Los alumnos interpretan, analizan y sintetizan.
Focalizando lo aprendido en la valoración de los
modos de ser y pensar, valorando además otras
culturas y los cuestionamientos de estereotipos,
discriminaciones y mitos que se construyen
respecto de las mismas.
 O.F.
◦ Understand a variety of oral texts, authentic,
produced in a normal speed by native speakers
or multimedia.
 Content Objectives: Linguistics.
 1. Functions:
 a. To the previous ones seen in 1st grade are
add.
• Macro functions such as: exposition,
explanation, persuasion.

 Language Objectives:
 Students should be able to identify
underlining relevant information; to
comprehend the meaning of the text through
facts and opinions; to get information
through reading; to valorise the information
from the reading and contextualised into real
life situations.
Key Vocabulary:
 Nouns: shelf, yeast, sale, host,
disease, weakness, risk, mistake,
balance, mankind, right, issue, patent,
seed, chain, supply, shortage, threat,
counterpart.
Key Vocabulary:
 Adjectives: huge, health-damaging,
unpredictable, disastrous, risky,
random, tiny, disabled.
 Adverbs: scientifically, genetically,
inevitably, suddenly, honestly,
totally, already.
 Verbs: claim, allow, clean up, upset,
threaten, label, trace, displace.
 Prepositions: without, within, through.
 Conjunctions: nor, whilst.
 Materials.
 Text related to GM food. “Of public
interest?”
 “Genetically Modified Foods” (video)
Learning strategies.
 The whole class will watch a video about
GM food.
 They will infer its implications according to
“The Network” point.
 The students read individually a text and
then recognize the most specific
vocabulary.
Lesson sequence:

 Presentation: The teacher presents the

topics that will be seen during the class,
in this point the teacher uses the basic
language, related to the food and eating
habits.
 1st step: The students will watch the video
from the internet twice.
 2nd step: Each student will discuss the
topic among the rest of the class,
according to his/her perception.
Lesson sequence:

 3rd step: The students will received a

document which has others points of
view.
 4th step: Each student will find vocabulary.
 5th step: The students will make up a
summary of the GM food as a way of
formative evaluation.
Activities.

 Of public interest?
 C:\Users\Joso\Documents\Of public
interest.docx
 GM food.
 C:\Users\Joso\Videos\Descargas de
RealPlayer\Genetically Modified Foods.flv
 http://www.sirc.org/articles/public_intere
st.shtml
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTfuA
bzAeB8

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