Introduction
Today's topic is about painters in history and the evaluation of art through the ages. As they 've all learnt these tense before,students should first focus on the past simple tense for activites.They can use present and future tenses to express their thoughts. They can distinguish the verb forms, infinitive,simple past and past participle.The webquest includes CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) based lesson plan.They are 16-17 years old 11th grade high school students and their levels are pre-intermediate and intermediate.
Task
The lesson is 60 minutes.
Warm up- 5 minutes
Task 1- 15 minutes
Task 2 -15 minutes
Task 3-25 minutes
In warm up, ask questions about painters in history to see which painters they know and other question will be about these painters and their art styles.
Task 1, students will choose an artist from history and they will make a little research about them,their art styles and the century in the first 5 minutes.After that they will narrate their searches to the class with using Past Simple tense.
Task 2, I will open a video about evaluations of art through the ages. It is a 1 minute video. After the video I will give some questions and open the Answergarden to answer the questions.
We will discuss their opinions.
Task 3 ,students will create a poster about these artists.
Process
Warm up: 5 minutes
Ask questions to make students have an idea about the lesson.
Which painters do you know?, which famous paintings do you know?, what do you know about these painters? and what do you think about these paintings?
Task 1: 15 minutes.
Give a research activity to students.
Choose an artist from history and research him/her. You can write down your searches. You should search their century they lived, their famous paintings or the reason why did you choose him/her ?
They have 5 minutes to do the research. After that, they will tell their researches to the others with using past simple tense. (Picasso lived in early ages 1881-1900..)
Websites that may help to students;
https://mymodernmet.com/greatest-painters-of-all-time/
https://www.timeout.com/newyork/art/top-famous-paintings-in-art-history-ranked
Task 2: 15 minutes
Open a video about evaluation of art through the ages.(1 minute long)
After the video, open the Answergarden online tool.
(What do you think about these differences between ages and art styles?, What is the main reason of these differences, how was the 18th century arts? According to the first activity, can you give me an example of artists of each century that you see in the video? Students will answer these questions with writing in Past Simple form.
Students will write their answers and opinions to the Answergarden
Task 3: 25 minutes
Students will create a poster about the lesson topic which is painters and paintings. Students should do this in groups.They have 15 minutes to do that. Teacher can help students if they have any questions and troubles.
They can create a poster in these websites:
https://www.canva.com/create/posters/
https://spark.adobe.com/make/posters/
https://venngage.com/features/poster-maker/
Poster samples:
https://www.lottamagazine.com/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/TPT-text-poster2.jpg
https://www.shutterstock.com/tr/image-vector/kids-vector-characters-collection-set-18-1298384503
Evaluation
| Excellent | Interesting | Needs improvement | |
| Researches | |||
| Answergarden opinions | |||
| Posters |
Conclusion
After the lesson, students will give feedbacks to each other about their opinions, researches and posters with help of the rubric that I prepared.
Teacher will check their feedbacks.
The next lesson, teacher will show the best posters according to the feedbacks.
Credits
Teacher Page
The lesson is about famous painters and their paintings in history.
This webquest is for 16-17 years old 11th grade high school students.
Their levels are intermediate and pre-intermediate
At the end of the lesson students will be able to;
-Brainstorm with warm-up questions at the beginning of the lesson.
-Express their thoughts with a speaking activity.
-Make a research about a topic
-Increase their writing,speaking skills with using Past Simple.
-Create a poster with their groups.
-Use online tools.
-Evaluate themselves and give feedbacks to each other.
-Practice and reinforce their knowledge of grammar.