Wonderful Life

< Difficulty Level: ★★★☆☆ >


< Topic >
 The topic of this supplement reading is group hobbies that make funny scenes in public to make the world more joyful place. In short, students can understand this hobbies as a form of flashmob.


< Purpose >
1. Students are very familiar with the video cips of showing flash mobs. They usually watch those video clips through their SNS, such as Twitter, Facebook, etc. These are very popular among students. And some of them even have taken part in the activity. So, it can draw students' attention, and motivate students.

2. This is for extensive reading. There are lots of missions and scenes and behind stories of the flashmob activities in the website. It is very interesting so that students read for fun, which means extensive reading. So students can select freely among them. Even though the texts are long, the contents are easy to understand because there are lots of pictures and video clips for understanding each paragraph better.


< Procedure >

1) Pre-reading (in-class 1 period) :
  Teacher will  show studetns an interesting video clips of flashmob.
After watching this, students will guess what kind of hobby it is. And discuss about it with teacher and classmates. Teacher will show some  necessary parts: interesting scences, reasons why people decided to do this as a hobby,etc.

Video USL: http://www.ted.com/talks/charlie_todd_the_shared_experience_of_absurdity.html

2) While-reading (out-class, individually) :

 Students can select more than one of the missions in the categories in the website.
They can read freely and extensively according to personal interests. But, they have to know the brief contents of each story.

 web USL: http://improveverywhere.com/

- Frozen Grand Central Improvement :
http://improveverywhere.com/2008/01/31/frozen-grand-central/

- High Five Escalator:
http://improveverywhere.com/2009/02/09/high-five-escalator/

-Best Buy
http://improveverywhere.com/2006/04/23/best-buy/