A BITE OF CULTURE

LESSON PLAN

ANABEL LANUZA

ANA RODRÍGUEZ

CULTURE – TEACHING ENGLISH AS L3

PROF.: ANNA PUJOL

UIC

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 English-

speaking 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.

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.

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 remember

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 Festivals3.

A ball of yarn.

1 Look at Annex 1. 2 Look at Annex 2. 3 Look at Annex 3.

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 remember 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