Name Origin: What’s the meaning of your name?
Name Origin: What’s the meaning of your name?
For this lesson, the class will discuss the meaning and history of their name. Here’s the lesson procedure:
| Stage & Aim | Procedure |
| Elicit Questions from WB: To introduce the T’s name to the class, set the context of name origins, develop the ability of the SS to form questions, and to act as a demo for the next activity. | T writes on the WB: Name? Meaning? Origin? Who/give? and Popular? on the WB. Teacher elicits how to make each one into a full question from the students and answers them with his/her own personal information regarding their name. |
| Short preparation activity to prepare students for the speaking activity to follow | Students can use their smart phones to google information about their name origin and make some short notes about it. This stage should be quick: only around 2-5 minutes max. |
| Mingle activity where students get up and speak to each other and find out info about their names | Students stand up and speak with one other asking about each others’ names. |
| Give feedback on the task and introduce the students to each other. | Teacher hands out name tags to put on the students’ desk or has students write their names on the WB and briefly discusses some of the names; for example, could ask the class: Who’s name has a really interesting meaning? Whose name is really popular in their country? Really unique? etc. Could also clarify pronunciation of them, too – might need some luck with that 🙂 |
Reflection
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