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Explanation of the video lesson plan

This lesson plan is based on a video, it has three parts: pre-viewing, while-viewing and post- viewing.

Selected video

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX54t1scUig

Length of video: Crime time: Under control

Creators (or published by): future thought

Previewing: Ask questions and use a short fill in the blanks about vocabulary of junk food, so they can become familiarized with the video.

Activity (or activities):

1-Let the students know about the purpose of the lesson by asking them questions about the topic. Example: What food do you like to eat? Do you like to eat at MC Donalds, KFC, Burger King…? Do you eat vegetables?

2- Then a little fill in the blanks about vocabulary of junk food.

Write the correct word to describe what is being shown in each picture. Choose from the list the correct Word.

COKE- HAMBURGER- DOG- POPCORN- FRIES- COMBO

NOTE: you can paste here the pictures that refer to each word. And make sentences that have a gap in each one.


Time: 5 min.

While-viewing: Watch the video. After watching the video a couple of times, the students are going to make a true/false exercises about the clip.

True and False exercise

Circle the T if its for TRUE or F if its for FALSE .

1- The police officer was eating donnuts at the beginning of the clip? F T

2- At the second day, the police was eating coffe with one cookie? F T

3- The thief always ran from the police officer? F T

4- The police officer could drive the aqua ski? F T

5- The third day the police officer was eating a burrito? F T

6- At the end of the clip the police officer could catch the thief? F T

7- The police officer was eating healthy food? F T

8- The police officer was eating junk food? F T

Time: 20 min.

Post-viewing: After students have completed watching the video. They have to write a short summary of what they understood of the video.

Activity (or activities): Write a short summary of what they understood of the video.

Time: 10 min