Cyberbullying Lesson Plan
Teacher- Nino Kakushadze
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Teacher
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Nino Kakushadze
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Class profile
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a class of 16 students,
Their age range is 16-17. Most of the
students have appropriate reading and writing skills. They enjoy performing communicative
activities. They need to improve speaking skills.
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Aims of
the lesson
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By the end of the lesson the students will :
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Define cyberbullying and
its consequences.
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realise online dangers
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Promote active participation, communication and group discussion.
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have developed their
speaking skill to ask and answer the questions using vocabulary related about bullying
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Anticipated problems
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(vocabulary)
Students might not be aware of some words
Solving the problem – I
will discuss the vocabulary by giving the definitions, or already studied
synonym or antonym words so that the
students get used to understand the meaning of some new voc.)
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Materials:
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Text-book – Activate B 1 (
upper- intermediate)
Digital support – computer, projector
Handouts, pictures, blackboard, chalk, pen, note-books, glue
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Stage and time
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Aim
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Procedure
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Ice Breaker
(5 minutes )
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To raise interest in the coming activities.
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To set the context of the lesson
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Teacher sticks the handout on the board,
with a small crossword, with the main word- Bully and with the definitions of
course. The Students read the definitions aloud and try to guess each word, they come to the blackboard and write the correct word to the
correct place (you may see crossword below the lesson
plan N 1 )
This
will encourage the students to start thinking as creatively as possible about
issues surrounding the cyberbullying –
An extreme behavior- the main theme/ aim
of the lesson
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Matching
Small groups
12 minutes
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Defining different kind of bullying
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Physical bullying
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Emotional bullying
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Cyber bullying
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Verbal bullying
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Teacher divides the students into small group (4 students in each
group), gives them the clear instruction: to match t the title, definition
and pictures to each other’s and make the complete picture. It’s important to, mind the limited time.
(You may see the complete pictures bellow the lesson plan N 2 ). All
the 4 groups have the same 4 pictures to complete and after finishing the
activity each group turn by turn will represent only one picture, the others
the next one and so on. While one group is representing and reading about
what kind of bullying was describing on the picture, the other groups are comparing and
checking to theirs.
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Pre watching activity
(5 minutes)
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To find out the students
attitude towards the fair or unfair behavior and to give them chance to express their ideas
freely connected to the issues
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In their student’s book - ‘’Activate B 1” (Unit 5 pg 52) Students
have a very short quiz (with 4 questions) named ‘’ How do you react to unfair
behavior”? Students are reading each question aloud, tell their own answer
and listen to the different answers form other students. Teacher encourages
the students to express their ideas honestly. (you may see the quiz below the
lesson plan N 3 )
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Watch the video, while
watching activity
(7 minutes)
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To see what is the cyberbullying and the online danger
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Teacher is turning on the video, Students are watching quietly.
Mainly the video is without words. While watching teacher asks the students
to make notes about the text messages (nasty or polite), emails (hurtful or
pleasant), abbreviations that are used in the video.
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Display the while watching
activity
(3 minutes )
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To check how the students
understand the meaning of the words
that are used in the video.
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Students say their opinion about these words, do they have positive or negative meaning,
if they used any of them in their everyday life. Teacher asks the students to
guess and name the synonym or antonym of these words. If there are some
unknown word for them and the students can’t guess the meaning of
these words teacher tries to explain by giving the definitions with the
studied words
The words that are in the video:
(Freak, loser, hu’s that? Is
dat u?)
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After watching activity (8
minutes)
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To check how the students
guess the main idea , the main aim of the video
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By using the digital
technology, teacher has made the online quiz with 8 questions and two
multiple answers. The task of the quiz is to choose and click the correct
answer. Gives the code to the
students. After entering the code
teacher manages to start the quiz. If the students wish, they tell their
names as the players, or only tell some nicknames, but teacher knows who‘s
the owner of the nickname. While doing the quiz the students are able to see
if their answers are true of false and also see the rating of other players.
After finishing the quiz teacher and students review their answers. (You may
see the quiz questions by the link given below the lesson plan N 4 ).
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Giving homework
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To realize what harm or
danger can cause the bullying, generally. Identify what kind of bullying is
in the letter. Try to think about the
solution of the problem or giving the useful tips what the bullied has to do in this kind of situation
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Teacher gives the students handouts on the small letter on it. Students
have to read the letter at home, where the bullied is asking for some advice
how to deal the problem and the students have to write for the next lesson some recommendation what can the bullied do to manage the
bullying problem. (you can see this letter bellow the lesson plan N 5)
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