Northern Ireland

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• Northern Ireland
• Secundair onderwijs
• Algemeen secundair onderwijs
• Leerjaar 6

Northern Ireland

• Some facts about the country/nation

• Listening/watching

• Spoken interaction

• Presenting

Five minute writing

A. Individually

• You write down everything you know about Northern Ireland.

• You only use full sentences.

  • e.g.

    • I know it is situated ...

    • People over there speak ...

    • The capital is ...

B. Check with your group members and come to a final adding up of everything you found together.

Ulster Banner

Listening, watching and reading

• trailer of the film 'Belfast'

• interview with the director, Kenneth Branagh + one with Jamie Dornan (text)

• Task: try to piece together what happened in 1969 in Belfast and how it affected its inhabitants.

Interview

Famous Northern Irish

• Jamie Dornan (actor)

• Cillian Murphy (actor)

• Kenneth Branagh (director and actor)

• C.S. Lewis (writer of the Chronicles of Narnia)

• Van Morrison (singer and songwriter)

Some recent series set in Northern Ireland

• Derry Girls

• The Lovers

• The Fall

Northern Irish slang

• Famous actor Jamie Dornan talks about some typical Northern Irish words used in informal situations.

• Write down three of them that you like and would definitely like to use when visiting NI. Also form a sentence with them.

• Check what your group members wrote down. Have a short conversation in which you use the words you wrote down

Northern Ireland now?

• Tourism

  • go to p.16 and read Jim's posts

  • What are the six places he captured?

  • Which one would you definitely want to visit too?

  • Did you recognise some as settings for films or series?

  • Would you consider visiting NI? Why (not)?

Giant's Causeway

Dark Hedges

Dunluce Castle

Titanic Museum

Peace Wall

Cenotaph

A legacy of violence?

What clear relics of The Troubles can be found in Belfast today?

Go to page 17 of the workbook and find out by reading the blog post 'Never stop travelling'.

In-class reading task

First task: Trivial Pursuit

In groups of three you are going to do some research on these topics:

• Art & Literature: The Legend of Finn MacCool

• Science & Nature: Dark Hedges

• Sports & Leisure: Gaelic Football

• Geography: Giant's Causeway

• Entertainment: the song 'Sunday Bloody Sunday'

• History: The Great Famine

You are free to chose what you think is the most suitable form to present your results. Whether you sing or play your text, as long as we get informed, it's fine.

First task: Trivial Pursuit

Important restrictions:

• When using a slideshow: limit the amount of text to a maximum of 15 words/slide.

• You are allowed to use some keywords as support but no full text.

• Face the audience and make eye contact with everyone.

• Create momentum by asking the audience some questions beforehand and by testing what they have learnt afterwards.

• Humour is also a great way to interact with your audience.

• Each group member will talk at least 2 minutes.

• Video, audio and images can be employed in a functional way.

• Use at least two different sources and do not forget to mention them.

The Titanic

• Talk to each other to find out as much as possible about 'The Titanic'

  • What is or was it?

  • What happened to it?

  • ...

What is the basic idea behind the film Titanic?

Rose (played by Kate Winslet in Titanic) is a survivor of the tragedy. The identity of almost every survivor was retrieved. Only six of them remained unknown, until recently. This documentary is about the search for these six survivors and their stories.

Homework (HT in planner) for next week

• Go to page 19 in Contact 6

• Read the article Titanic: Searching for the 'missing' Chinese survivors (pp.19-20)

• Do assignments a-d on page 21

Ellis Island

Watch the trailer of The Godfather and recount what you saw (happening) to your group members (persons sitting next to you).