Lesson MMS-6
Welcome! Please consider how your attitude affects your and other students' experiences of the lesson.
Be respectful, come prepared, and show interest to have the best possible educational experience.
Lesson goals
Deepen your understanding of Monroe's motivated sequence by taking a quiz, develop your vocabulary and practice creating a speech
Lesson activities
Vocabulary quiz
Vocabulary development
Practice speech
Vocabulary quiz
Time for the activity: ~15 minutes
During this activity, you will develop your vocabulary and spelling skills
Open Exam.net and complete the matching and rephrasing exercise
Bemindful of your spelling and grammar; incorrect spelling or grammar does not yield any points
Rephrasing - how it works
Read the first sentence. Complete the second sentence so that is has a similar meaning to the first sentence by putting the word in bold in the blank space (...) . Change the word if necessary. You must use between two and five words. For example:
Perhaps we took the wrong way.
Might
We (...) the wrong way.
Correct answer: We might have taken the wrong way.
Here is another example:
His new album stands a very good chance of winning the award.
Highly
It is (...) his new album will win the award.
Correct answer: It is highly likely that his new album will win the award.
Vocabulary development
Time for the activity: ~15-20 minutes
This activity enchances your vocabulary development and deepen your understanding of new concepts.
Use your whiteboard and draw lines to create a Frayer model. It is a strategy which enchances your vocabulary development and deepen your understanding of new concepts.
Begin by selecting on of the words from the vocabulary list below.
Then, define it. What does the word mean?
Describe the characteristics of the word. What is typical?
Now, give an example
Finally, give non-examples, opposities or common errors.
Vocabulary list
Hazardous ➜ Dangerous and capable of causing harm
Tissue ➜ Layer of cells that covers the body
Magnitude ➜ The size or importance of something
Peril ➜ Danger or risk
Extensive ➜ Very large or wide-ranging
Abandon ➜ Stop doing/using something, or to leave
Stem ➜ To start or develop as the result of something
Emit ➜ To produce or send out something
Minuscule ➜ Extremely small
Indicated ➜ Suggested or shown to be the case
Consistent ➜ Happening or done in the same way over time
Catalog ➜ Arranged in a systematic way
Nausea ➜ A feeling of wanting to vomit
Minimize ➜ Make something as small/unimportant as possible
Habit ➜ A regular, almost unconscious, way of behaving
Inconvenient ➜ Not convenient or suitable
Staggering ➜ Extremely surprising or impressive
Prolonged ➜ Continuing for a long time
Epidemic ➜ A sudden and widespread increase of a disease
Publicize ➜ To make something known to the public
Flip recording
Time for the activity: 30-40 minutes
Create a short speech where you motivate the listener to action regarding a danger:
Write a short speech following the 5 steps from Monroe's motivated sequence
Use inversions (I will be looking for these!)
Record (~1-3 minutes) @ Flip; this is your homework. Deadline 1 week.
If you wish, use generative AI by copying the following prompt:
Create a script for a motivational speech. The speech topic is 'The Dangers of [here, you enter your specific topic!]'. Structure the speech according to the five steps from Monroe's motivational sequence: attention, need, satisfaction, visualization and action. Limit the script to one sentence per step.
Improve upon the text that the AI generated and make it your own.
Homework
Start thinking of a topic that you want your own motivational speech to be about
Exit ticket
No exit ticket (your Flip counts as one)