ESL lesson Grade 8

1. A visit to a
Museum
myoo·zee·uhm
博物馆

2. Can you
remember
what we
talked about
last time?

3. What’s your
favourite
thing about
Spring?
The flowers start to
bloom.
The weather becomes
warmer.
We can do more
activities outside, for
example.
Camping Hiking Walking in the parks.

4. What are
some
activities you
like to do in
Spring?
Do you like to go camping?
Where do you like to go?
Who do you like to go
with?

5. Do you like to
plant flowers?
What kind of flowers do
you like to plant?
Do you like to plant …
daffodils, geraniums, roses
水仙花、天竺葵、玫瑰

6. Have you ever
planted any
vegetables?
Which ones?
• Onions洋葱
• Potatoes土豆
• Cabbage白菜

7. This week
we are
going to
talk about
museums
Do you like museums?
What are your favourite kind
of museums?

8. What are some different kinds of museums?
• Science museums 科学博物馆
• History museums 历史博物馆
• Art museums美术馆
• Natural history museums自然
历史博物馆
• Archaeology museums考古博
物馆

9. What can you see in a museum?
Sculptures
雕塑
skuhlp·chuh
the art of making three-
dimensional representative or
abstract forms, especially by carving
stone or wood or by casting metal
or plaster
Artefacts
文物
aa·tuh·fakt
an object made by a human being,
typically one of cultural or historical
interest.

10. New
vocabulary
• Funerary mask
• 丧葬面具
• Art gallery
• aat ga·luh·ree
• 美术馆
• a room or building for
the display or sale of
works of art.
• Statue
• sta·choo
• 塑像
• a carved or cast
figure of a person
or animal,
especially one that
is life-size or larger.

11. New
vocabulary
• Skeleton
• skeh·luh·tn
• 骨架
• an internal or
external framework
of bone, cartilage, or
other rigid material
supporting or
containing the body
of an animal or
plant.

12. Talk to the
person beside
you.
What are each of these pictures
about?

13. Answer
key.
The first picture is the Egyptian funerary mask
(of Tutankhamun)埃及葬礼面具（图坦卡蒙）
The second one is a statue 塑像/ sculpture
called Michelangelo’s David米开朗基罗的大卫
The third picture is a skeleton骨架 of a large
animal
In the last picture people looking at a picture in
an art gallery美术馆

14. Let’s look at this video
about museums.

16. Answer these questions
about the museum video.
• Where does the speaker live?
• How much does the museum cost?
• What sort of people go to the museum?
• What are the main attractions of the museum?
• What can you hire there?
• What do they sell at the shops?
• What other places can you go to at the
museum?

17. Match these sentence halves.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.

18. Match the 3D models to their descriptions.
https://capitalenglish.cl/2020/06/01/lesson-plan-exloring-the-british-museum/
• Granite head of Amenemhat III, from the Temple of Bastet, Bubastis, Egypt 12th Dynasty, around 1800 BC. From a
colossal statue in a temple.
• Seated Buddha preaching. Unusually for this hand gesture, the Buddha wears the over-robe on both shoulders with a
thick curved neckline, an edge lying below the right forearm, the semi-circle between the legs rather deep and the fall of
gathered drapery from the left wrist, where the backthrow may be visible, undulating in high relief to lie splayed and
almost flat on the seat.
• Hoa Hakananai’a, from Orongo, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Polynesia, around AD 1000.
• Part of grey and pink granodiorite stela bearing priestly decree concerning Ptolemy V in three blocks of text: Hieroglyphic
(14 lines), Demotic (32 lines) and Greek (54 lines). The inscription is a decree passed by a council of priests, one of a
series that affirm the royal cult of the 13 year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.

19. Passive voice
Place the following sentences in the passive voice:
They founded the British museum in 1753.
• The British museum was founded in 1753.
They located the museum in the centre of London.
• The museum was located in the centre of London.
They housed the museum in a large, very impressive looking building.
• The museum was housed in a large, very impressive looking builiding.

20. Plan your trip around the
museum.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/visit/object-trails

21. Design your own museum!
• Make a plan of your own museum.
• What kind of museum is it?
• What kinds of artefacts, sculptures, statues will it have?
• Will there be different rooms in your museum?