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Lesson Plan for Teachers

 Hobby course lesson 3 

This lesson focuses on helping students realise the importance of reading in English, understand the differences between reading and watching videos, and make use of existing tools (e.g. Google Search) to find reading resources to do their hobby.

Task 1: Why reading in English (Step 1) 

Purpose: The purpose of this task is to highlight the importance of gaining information from English resources to do the students’ hobby and to utilise ChatGPT to summarize information. 

Background information: Wikipedia articles are available in different languages. Links from a Wikipedia page in one language to an equivalent page in another language are called ‘interlanguage links’, which can be found in the ‘Languages’ section of the page.

Activity stages 

  • Ask students to open ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/), and have them search for “Top 10 origami websites”)

  • As ChatGPT also provides links to each website, ask students to click on each link to check whether they are accessible

  • Using ChatGPT, students find a glossary related to Origami

  • Explain that students can find articles on Wikipedia in different languages (click ‘Languages’ of the page’s left sidebar)

  • Show students the information on Origami on two Wikipedia pages in English and Thai (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami and https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%87%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B4)

  • Students use ChatGPT to summarise and simplify the texts available in the English Wikipedia page

  • Ask students to compare the information from the Wikipedia pages  

  • Classroom discussion: (1) What are the differences in the two versions? (2) With the differences, do you think each of them is useful for different purposes? How?

Handouts: - 

Answers/models/note: Reading in English not only promotes exposures to authentic input, but it also enables students to gain information that is more extensive and comprehensive.

Task 2: Reading authentic English texts (Step 1) 

Purpose: The purpose of this activity is to compare and contrast the differences between the information on Wikipedia written in an authentic and simplified language.

Background information: ChatGPT, a language model developed to hold a conversation with the end user, can be useful as a search engine.

Activity stages 

  • Open the simple Wikipedia page on Origami (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origami)

  • Ask students to spend 5 minutes to read the article, and compare the information available on both pages

  • Classroom discussion: (1) what are the differences between these two websites? (2) which one is more comprehensive? (3) which one would you choose to read to do your hobby and why?

Handouts: - 

Answers/models/note:  

Task 3: Reading vs. Watching videos (Steps 1) 

Purpose: Students will gain an understanding of the differences between reading and watching video.   

Background information: While reading is an active process, watching videos is generally believed to be a passive one. However, as reading requires a lot more attention than watching videos, this slowness usually results in more retention of information.  

Activity stages 

  • In breakout rooms, students discuss the differences between reading and watching videos (10 minutes) 

  • A volunteer from each group explains the differences 

  • Give students the survey of when to read and when to watch videos (https://forms.gle/darPWcaAaFmyGb6ZA)  

  • Allow them five minutes to complete the survey 

  • Ask for some volunteers to share the responses with explanations 

Handouts: - 

Answers/models/note: Generally, when students want to gain knowledge (e.g. materials to do the hobby, types of origami, and ethics and copyright issues), it is better to read. On the other hand, if they want to improve the skills (e.g. ability to make folds and the sequences of folds), watching videos will be much helpful. 

Task 4: Finding things to read (Step 2) 

Purpose: This task aims to help students to be able to use effective search techniques. 

Background information: ChatGPT, a language model developed to hold a conversation with the end user, can be useful as a search engine. And, Google’s advanced search which allows users to have more control over their searches can also be used to check/confirm the results generated from the AI tool.

Activity stages 

  • Ask students to share how they make use of ChatGPT (https://chat.openai.com/)

  • Ask students to search the followings using ChatGPT:

    • Find 5 famous people called Luke Shaw

    • How the term ‘ship in a bottle’ is used in science

    • How much was 200 grams of gold worth in THB in 1987?

  • Ask for some volunteers to share the prompts they used to find the information

  • Have students recheck the results through Google Search and Google’s advanced search (see handout)

Handouts: How to search handout

Answers/models/note:  

Task 5: Finding things to read (Step 3) 

Purpose: This task aims to introduce some strategies for reading. 

Background information: -  

Activity stages 

  • Ask students to share tips for choosing things to read 

  • In breakout rooms, students discuss (1) goals for reading (2) reading strategies that they have used 

  • Ask students to discuss how they use Google Translate and share with students the pros and cons of the tool 

Handouts: Using Google Translate and Google Images (https://3d527928-cc79-4ee7-9c10-b738b111b2fd.filesusr.com/ugd/c7cbef_a8ed044649264a0090a535e8dd3c778a.pdf) 

Answers/models/note: Some tips for choosing reading resources: (1) reliability of the resources (2) language used in the resources (i.e. how easy it is to read) (3) publication date. Issues with Google Translate: Google Translate is good as an aid but problematic for some technical terms. 

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