24.3 Keep on dreaming - tto123

24.3 Keep on dreaming - tto123

Keep on dreaming

Introduction

The subject of this period is the symbols in dreams.

  • Form groups of three or four pupils.

Discuss the following questions in your group:

  • What are symbols in dreams?
  • Is there something everybody dreams about?
  • Do you believe these symbols can be explained?

 

 

Step

Activity

Aim

Time

 

Introduction

Find out what you already know.

10

Step 1


Listening
Typical symbols in dreams

You can understand a video about symbols in dreams and answer questions about it.

15

Step 2

Reading
About dreams

You can understand a text with background information about dreams and answer questions about it.

15

Step 3

Vocabulary and irregular verbs

You can understand and use vocabulary about dreams. The irregular verbs: to throw, to understand and to wake.

15

Step 4

Grammar
Conditionals

You can understand and use the second conditional.

10

Step 5


Speaking
Talking about dreams part 3

You can have a discussion about dreams.

10

Step 6

Writing
About dreams

You can write a summary of a text.

20

Step 7

Evaluation

Reflect on what you have learnt.

5

Step 8

Extra
Sweet dreams

 

 

Step 1 - Listening

Typical symbols in dreams

You are going to watch a video about frequently occurring events in dreams.

  • Watch the video and do assignment 1.
  • Read the questions of assignment 2.
  • Watch the video again and do assignment 2 and 3.

Assignment 1

Watch the video and answer the question on your own:

  • Write down which symbols are discussed in this video and what they stand for.

Now discuss the answer in your group.

Questions assignment 2

  1. Dreams are best interpreted by yourself. What factor should you take into account?
  2. Being chased in your dream is ...
  3. Having an exam in your dream may mean that you evaluate an aspect of your personality.
    How can you find out what aspect?
  4. What may falling in your dream indicate?
  5. Killing someone in your dreams does not indicate what?
  6. Sex dreams are not about ...
  7. What common dream theme is not treated in this video?

Step 2 - Reading

About dreams

You are going to read a text about dreams.

  • Read the text and do assignment 1.
  • Read the text again and do assignment 2 and 3.

Assignment 1

Copy and fill in the grid (on your own) and discuss the answers in your group.

What information do you get? (use key words)

introduction

 

famous people and dreams

 

dreams in history

 

Sigmund Freud

 

Carl Jung

 

Research on dreams

 

 

About dreams
Dreams are expressions of thoughts, feelings and events that pass through our mind while we are sleeping. People dream about one to two hours each night. We may have four to seven dreams in one night. Everybody dreams. But only some people remember their dreams.

The word "dream" comes from an old word in English that means "joy" and "music." Our dreams often include all the senses – smells, sounds, sights, tastes and things we touch. We dream in color. Sometimes we dream the same dream over and over again. These repeated dreams are often unpleasant. They may even be nightmares -- bad dreams that frighten us.

Artists, writers and scientists sometimes say they get ideas from dreams. For example, the singer Paul McCartney of the Beatles said he awakened one day with the music for the song "Yesterday" in his head. The writer Mary Shelley said she had a very strong dream about a scientist using a machine to make a creature come alive. When she awakened, she began to write her book about a scientist named Frankenstein who creates a frightening monster.

People have been trying to decide what dreams mean for thousands of years. Ancient Greeks and Romans believed dreams provided messages from the gods. Sometimes people who could understand dreams would help military leaders in battle.

  • In ancient Egypt, people who could explain dreams were believed to be special. In the Christian Bible, there are more than seven hundred comments or stories about dreams. In China, people believed that dreams were a way to visit with family members who had died. Some Native American tribes and Mexican civilizations believed dreams were a different world we visit when we sleep.

  • In Europe, people believed that dreams were evil and could lead people to do bad things. Two hundred years ago, people awakened after four or five hours of sleep to think about their dreams or talk about them with other people. Then they returned to sleep for another four to five hours.

  • Early in the twentieth century, two famous scientists developed different ideas about dreams. Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud published a book called "The Interpretation of Dreams" in nineteen hundred.

  • Freud believed people often dream about things they want but cannot have. These dreams are often linked to sex and aggression.

  • For Freud, dreams were full of hidden meaning. He tried to understand dreams as a way to understand people and why they acted or thought in certain ways. Freud believed that every thought and every action started deep in our brains. He thought dreams could be an important way to understand what is happening in our brains.

  • Freud told people what their dreams meant as a way of helping them solve problems or understand their worries. For example, Freud said when people dream of flying or swinging, they want to be free of their childhood. When a person dreams that a brother or sister or parent has died, the dreamer is really hiding feelings of hatred for that person. Or a desire to have what the other person has.

  • Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung worked closely with Freud for several years.
    But he developed very different ideas about dreams. Jung believed dreams could help people grow and understand themselves. He believed dreams provide solutions to problems we face when we are awake.

  • He also believed dreams tell us something about ourselves and our relations with other people. He did not believe dreams hide our feelings about sex or aggression.
    Today we know more about the science of dreaming because researchers can take pictures of people's brains while they are sleeping.

  • In nineteen fifty-three, scientists discovered a special kind of sleep called REM or rapid eye movement. Our eyes move back and forth very quickly while they are closed. Our bodies go through several periods of sleep each night. REM sleep is the fourth period. We enter REM sleep four to seven times each night. During REM sleep, our bodies do not move at all. This is the time when we dream. If people are awakened during their REM sleep, they will remember their dreams almost ninety percent of the time. This is true even for people who say they do not dream.

  • Scientists have done serious research about dreams. The International Association for the Study of Dreams holds a meeting every year. At one meeting scientists talked about ways to help victims of crime who have nightmares. Scientists have also studied dreams and creativity, dreams of sick people and dreams of children.


Scientists who study dreaming often attach wires to the head of a person who is sleeping. The wires record electrical activity in the brain. These studies show that the part of the brain in which we feel emotion is very active when we dream.
The front part of the brain is much less active; this is the center of our higher level thinking processes like organization and memory. Some scientists believe this is why our dreams often seem strange and out of order.
Scientists believe it is important to keep researching dreams. Yet there is still no agreement on exactly how the brain works when we are dreaming or why we dream.

Source: http://readingworkbook.blogspot.nl

 

Step 3 - Vocabulary

  • Study the vocabulary. (10 minutes)
  • Study the irregular verbs.
  • Do the exercises.

Vocabularylist Keep on dreaming

Tip!
There are many ways to work on your vocabulary in Wozzol.
You can say or copy the words out loud.
Click in Wozzol on the red arrow for the different options.
The most important thing is that you don't do this for too long, because then you don't learn anything anymore.
In two 10-minute sessions you learn more than in half an hour.

Irregular Verbs

Check out the knowledge base below and study the following irregular verbs:

  • to throw
  • to understand
  • to wake

Step 4 - Grammar

Conditionals: The second conditional

  • Study the theory.
  • Do assignment 1 and 2.

Step 5 - Speaking

Talking about dreams part 3

Read the questions and decide which 5 you are going to discuss in your group.

  1. Do you usually remember your dreams? Why/ Why not? Describe some of them.
  2. What was the nicest dream that you can remember?
  3. Talk about the most recent dream you can remember that you have had in the past.
  4. Talk about a recurring dream that you have had in the past.
  5. How do you interpret a dream? Do you use your intuition/imagination to understand it?
  6. Do you usually read books on dream interpretation? What is your opinion on it?
  7. Do you generally have pleasant dreams or nightmares?
  8. Have you ever had or heard of a dream that foretold the future?
  9. Have you ever dreamt about dead people? Is it a good signal? Why/Why not?
  10. Have you ever dreamt about dead friends or relatives? How was it? How did you feel?
  11. Do your dreams ever affect your moods? Explain.
  12. Have you ever woken up from a dream "in a cold sweat"?
  13. Do you believe that dreams can sometimes predict the future?
  14. Has anyone told you if you have walked or talked in your sleep?
  15. Do you remember what you dream about in your sleep?
  16. Do you tell people about your dreams?
  17. Do you usually have dreams? What are they like?
  18. Do you dream about things which happened during the day such as working and studying?
  19. Do you ever have “lucid dreams”. In other words, do you ever become aware that you are dreaming and then control the dream?
  20. Do you think that we can learn anything from dreams? Some people claim that we can learn things about the future from dreams. What do you think about this idea?

Step 6 - Writing

About dreams

The text you read this lesson was the article About dreams. Now you are going to write a summary of this article.

On your own

  • Read the article again and use the information from reading assignment 1.
  • Write the summary.

In your group

  • Compare your summaries, compile a group summary and hand in the group version to your teacher.

About dreams
Dreams are expressions of thoughts, feelings and events that pass through our mind while we are sleeping. People dream about one to two hours each night. We may have four to seven dreams in one night. Everybody dreams. But only some people remember their dreams.

The word "dream" comes from an old word in English that means "joy" and "music." Our dreams often include all the senses – smells, sounds, sights, tastes and things we touch. We dream in color. Sometimes we dream the same dream over and over again. These repeated dreams are often unpleasant. They may even be nightmares -- bad dreams that frighten us.

Artists, writers and scientists sometimes say they get ideas from dreams. For example, the singer Paul McCartney of the Beatles said he awakened one day with the music for the song "Yesterday" in his head. The writer Mary Shelley said she had a very strong dream about a scientist using a machine to make a creature come alive. When she awakened, she began to write her book about a scientist named Frankenstein who creates a frightening monster.

People have been trying to decide what dreams mean for thousands of years. Ancient Greeks and Romans believed dreams provided messages from the gods. Sometimes people who could understand dreams would help military leaders in battle.

  • In ancient Egypt, people who could explain dreams were believed to be special. In the Christian Bible, there are more than seven hundred comments or stories about dreams. In China, people believed that dreams were a way to visit with family members who had died. Some Native American tribes and Mexican civilizations believed dreams were a different world we visit when we sleep.

  • In Europe, people believed that dreams were evil and could lead people to do bad things. Two hundred years ago, people awakened after four or five hours of sleep to think about their dreams or talk about them with other people. Then they returned to sleep for another four to five hours.

  • Early in the twentieth century, two famous scientists developed different ideas about dreams. Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud published a book called "The Interpretation of Dreams" in nineteen hundred.

  • Freud believed people often dream about things they want but cannot have. These dreams are often linked to sex and aggression.

  • For Freud, dreams were full of hidden meaning. He tried to understand dreams as a way to understand people and why they acted or thought in certain ways. Freud believed that every thought and every action started deep in our brains. He thought dreams could be an important way to understand what is happening in our brains.

  • Freud told people what their dreams meant as a way of helping them solve problems or understand their worries. For example, Freud said when people dream of flying or swinging, they want to be free of their childhood. When a person dreams that a brother or sister or parent has died, the dreamer is really hiding feelings of hatred for that person. Or a desire to have what the other person has.

  • Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung worked closely with Freud for several years.
    But he developed very different ideas about dreams. Jung believed dreams could help people grow and understand themselves. He believed dreams provide solutions to problems we face when we are awake.

  • He also believed dreams tell us something about ourselves and our relations with other people. He did not believe dreams hide our feelings about sex or aggression.
    Today we know more about the science of dreaming because researchers can take pictures of people's brains while they are sleeping.

  • In nineteen fifty-three, scientists discovered a special kind of sleep called REM or rapid eye movement. Our eyes move back and forth very quickly while they are closed. Our bodies go through several periods of sleep each night. REM sleep is the fourth period. We enter REM sleep four to seven times each night. During REM sleep, our bodies do not move at all. This is the time when we dream. If people are awakened during their REM sleep, they will remember their dreams almost ninety percent of the time. This is true even for people who say they do not dream.

  • Scientists have done serious research about dreams. The International Association for the Study of Dreams holds a meeting every year. At one meeting scientists talked about ways to help victims of crime who have nightmares. Scientists have also studied dreams and creativity, dreams of sick people and dreams of children.


Scientists who study dreaming often attach wires to the head of a person who is sleeping. The wires record electrical activity in the brain. These studies show that the part of the brain in which we feel emotion is very active when we dream.
The front part of the brain is much less active; this is the center of our higher level thinking processes like organization and memory. Some scientists believe this is why our dreams often seem strange and out of order.
Scientists believe it is important to keep researching dreams. Yet there is still no agreement on exactly how the brain works when we are dreaming or why we dream.

Source: http://readingworkbook.blogspot.nl

Step 7 - Evaluation

Fill in the schedule and answer the questions below.

Activity

Fun

Boring

Easy

Hard

I already know this

New

Listening

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reading

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vocabulary

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grammar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Speaking

 

 

 

 

 

 

Writing

 

 

 

 

 

  


What have you learnt in this double period?
Answer the following questions:

  • What was the easiest part of this lesson?
  • What did you already know?
  • What was the most difficult part?
  • What was new to you in this lesson?
  • What do you have to ask your teacher?

Step 8 - Extra

Extra: Sweet dreams

  • Have you got time left? Watch this!
  • Listen again to the video Sweet dreams by Beyoncé and fill in the gaps in the lyrics.

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    Deze les valt onder de arrangeerbare leerlijn van de Stercollectie voor Engels voor tweetalig onderwijs, leerjaar 1, 2 en 3. Dit is thema 8 'Dreams'. Het onderwerp van deze les is: Keep on dreaming. Deze les staat in het teken van de betekenis van dromen en en droomsymbolen. De onregelmatige werkwoorden in deze les zijn: to throw, to understand en to wake. In de grammaticaopdracht wordt de second conditional behandeld.
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