This lesson plan involves teaching students about the novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne over the course of six to seven sessions. Students will listen to chapters of the novel, complete vocabulary and comprehension activities, learn about different cultures and means of transportation. They will discuss the author Jules Verne and write their own short stories about journeys. Students will also work in groups to create comics based on the novel set in modern times. The lesson plan aims to teach language skills while promoting cultural diversity and respect for other cultures.

2. Level: A2 Lesson Plan for: 3rd cycle of Primary (11/12 years old kids) Teaching context: We want to teach the language with all of the aspects that it brings (its culture, its literature…) Target readers

3. Teaching Objectives To Know the novel To know different means of transport. To learn vocabulary involved in travels. To know the world To know other cultures To learn how important the respect towards other cultures is and to value them.

4. Type of literary text Is an imaginary text that is written in prose Moreover, this version is a comic, so this will be easier to the students than prose.

5. Methodology Approach: This lesson plan wants to be focused in the culturally and diversity. Sessions : This lesson plan will take us six or seven sessions aproximately , 50 minutes per session. Materials: We are going to use a computer with internet conexion to listen to the story in it. We also give the students some activities like the “cultural scattergories”.

6. SESSIONS

7. First session We put the story to the students Chapter 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KE_NgagEWY Chapter 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmppf2oM00Y Chapter 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BWNBBSCMs0 Chapter 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwlSOesXJY Chapter 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdY4-4X-uKk Chapter 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOchwvqPzN4 Activity one: Around the world with Willy Fog Activity two: Indentify the characters Activity three: Remember Willy Fog’s travel Activity four: Wordsquare

8. Second Session Activity one: Students have to match the clothes in the photos, with its name, with the country where is typical. Activity two: Typical food crossword Activity three: Cultural scattergories

9. Third session During the third session, we are talking about the author of the novel, Jules Verne. We want students to know something about him . Pupils will have to write a short story of a journey to a never-visited-before place.

10. Fourth session Students will have to do a comic based on the Jules Verne’s novel. The comic that students will do, must be based on current times. Groups of 6 or 7 , and three sessions to complete it

11. Evaluation Two main aspects: the results that students reached and also the result of the activity in general so as to see which elements can be improved, which worked out, if there is something that can be added… In the evaluation of the activity we will consider the interest shown by the group in general