The Great Depression in the United States: 1929-1939

CLIL MODULE PLAN Teacher High School Objective The Great Depression in the United States: 1929 – 1939 Research question 1) What do you know about the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s? Discuss in pairs. Red and green circles activity. 2) Franklin Delano Roosevelt speech to the United States Congress on the 3rd January, 1934. Class 5^ Students aged 18-19 Language level B1 and above   Lessons   1. The Wall Street Crash of 1929 v  The Big Bang v  Symbolic locations: Wall Street New York v  The Great Depression 2. The New Deal v  Symbolic Locations: The Tennessee Valley 3. American Presidents in the 1930s v  Fact File: Herbert Clark Hoover v  Symbolic locations: Hoovervilles v  Fact File: Franklin Delano Roosevelt 4. Life in the Great Depression v  Symbolic locations: Skyscrapers in New York City   Timetable   7 hours Types of collaboration Collaborative planning & materials development. Content teacher and Foreign Language teacher teach separately. Medium of instruction Content teachers use L2, switching in L1 (if necessary and appropriate) and use material in English.     Resources and materials C. Hutchinson, A. Pinnel, S. Wright, CLIL History. The Twentieth Century, La Nuova Italia A. Brancati, T. Pagliarini, Dialogo con la storia e l’attualità, vol. 3, La Nuova Italia Roosevelt’s first State of the Union Address, an extract from a speech presented by the President...

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