French Revolution: task 3

Year: 2nd  - Secondary School
Theme: French Revolution
Cross -curricular link: History - Fench Revolution
Final Task: Creation of a puzzle so as to show French Revolution vs May Revolution
Aims
Content: to explore about historical characters and the importance of hanving knowlegde of the past.
Language: to find out and use vocabulary related to historical facts. Use the past simple tense and practice
                 listening, reading and writing skills.
Teaching sequence:
Pre-task: Teacher will invite sts to look at the pictures and describe them. Teacher will ask: Which picture belongs to May Revolution? What about the other pictures? What can you see?What happened first?Sts will predict what the pictures are about, French Revolution and May Revolution.


































Core task
Exercise 1
Teacher will write on the board: French revolution -criollos - liberal ideas-Spanish king - war - independent -king's name - government.Sts will use words to create a word cloud using Wordle.



Exercise 2
Sts will use the words from ex 1 to complete some sentences.Teacher will draw sts attention to the form of the past simple tense and the vocabulary related to the historical facts.

-The ideals of ......................................... in 1789 spread to the Americas.
-The..................................................of influential thinkers such as Voltaire and Rousseau had a strong impact on young criollos.
-Towards 1810, Spain was at ..............................................with France.The .................................was
taken prisoner by the French.
-As a consequence the criollos from Rio de la Plata thought that this was their chance to become part of the
...........................................
-As the Spanish king was in jail, they considered that their viceroy could no longer rule in the ......................
-After having some secret meetings with some Spanish people, the asked Cisneros to resign. Then the first government was formed
Final task
Teacher will invite sts to create a puzzle using JIGSAWPLANET to compare and contrast the past events. Teacher will encourage sts to think about the importance of the different aspects of the culture and history.
http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=showpuzzle&pid=0c468d56ecc0&ret=%2F