The subject of this period is the meaning of dreams.
Form groups of three or four pupils.
Discuss the following questions in your group:
Since when do you think people are trying to understand what a dream means?
Who was Sigmund Freud?
Step
Activity
Aim
Time
Introduction
Find out what you already know.
10
Step 1
Listening Scientists say they can read dreams
You can understand a recording about sleep researchand answer questions about it.
15
Step 2
Reading Dream in history
You can understand a text about the history of dream interpretationand answer questions about them.
15
Step 3
Vocabulary and irregular verbs
You can understand and use vocabulary about dreams. The irregular verbs: to tear, to tell and to think.
15
Step 4
Grammar Conditionals
You can understand and usethe first conditional.
10
Step 5
Speaking Talking about dreams part 2
You canhave a discussion about dreams.
10
Step 6
Writing A survey about dreams
You can write a report about a survey.
20
Step 7
Evaluation
Reflect on what you have learnt.
5
Step 8
Extra An impossible dream?
Step 1 - Listening
Scientists say they can read dreams
You are going to listen to a text about scientists who claim to have found a way to ‘read’ people’s dreams.
Listen to the recording and do assignment 1.
Read the questions.
Listen again and do assignment 2 and 3.
Assignment 1
Listen to the recording and answer the questions.
Where did this research take place?
How do these scientists say they can ‘read’ dreams?
Step 2 - Reading
Dream in history
You are going to read a text about the history of dream interpretations.
Read the text and do assignment 1.
Read the text again and do assignment 2.
Assignment 1
Read the text and answer the question on your own, then discuss the answer in your group.
Think of headings for the numbers 1-8 in the text.
Dream in history
Dream interpretations date back to 3000-4000 B.C., where they were documented on clay tablets. For as long as we have been able to talk about our dreams, we have been fascinated with them and have strived to understand them.
1
In some primal societies, members were unable to distinguish between the dream world and the waking world. Or they could simply choose not to make the distinction. They saw that the dream world was not only an extension of reality, but that it was a more powerful world.
2
In the Greek and Roman eras, dreams were seen in a religious context. They were believed to be direct messages from the gods or from the dead. The people of that time look to their dreams for solutions on what to do or what course of action to take. They believed dreams forewarned and predicted the future. Special shrines were even built where people could go to sleep in hope that a message could be passed to them through their dreams. Their belief in the power of a dream was so strong that it even dictated the actions of political and military leaders. In fact, dream interpreters even accompanied military leaders into battle to help with war strategy. Greek philosopher, Aristotle believed that dreams were a result of physiological functions. Dreams were able to diagnose illness and predict onset of diseases.
3
During the Hellenistic period, the main focus of dreams was centered around its ability to heal. Temples, called Asclepieions, were built around the healing power of dreams. It was believed that sick people who slept in these temples would be sent cures through their dreams. Dream interpreters even aided the medicine men in their medical diagnosis. It was believed that dreams offered a vital clue for healers to finding what was wrong with the dreamer.
4
In Egypt, priests also acted as dream interpreters. The Egyptians recorded their dreams in hieroglyphics. People with particular vivid and significant dreams were believed to be blessed and were considered special. People who had the power to interpret dreams were looked up to and seen as divinely gifted.
5
Dreaming can be seen as an actual place that your spirit and soul leaves every night to go and visit. The Chinese believed that the soul leaves the body to go into this world. However, if they should be suddenly awakened, their soul may fail to return to the body. For this reason, some Chinese today, are wary of alarm clocks.
6
Some Native American tribes and Mexican civilizations share this same notion of a distinct dream dimension. They believed that their ancestors lived in their dreams and take on non-human forms like plants. They see that dreams as a way of visiting and having contact with their ancestors. Dreams also helped to point their mission or role in life.
7
During the Middle Ages, dreams were seen as evil and its images were temptations from the devil. In the vulnerable sleep state, the devil was believed to fill the mind of humans with poisonous thoughts. He did his dirty work though dreams attempting to mislead us down a wrong path.
8
In the early 19th century, dreams were dismissed as stemming from anxiety, a household noise or even indigestion. Hence there was really no meaning to it. Later on in the 19th century, Sigmund Freud revived the importance of dreams and its significance and need for interpretation. He revolutionized the study of dreams.
Tracing back to these ancient cultures, people had always had an inclination to interpret dreams. The bible alone has over seven hundred references to dreams.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
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:
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
De onderstaande antwoorden moet je zelf nakijken; vergelijk jouw antwoorden met de goede
antwoorden, en geef aan in welke mate jouw antwoorden correct zijn.
Read the questions and decide which 5 you are going to discuss in your group.
What springs to mind when you hear the word 'dream'?
What kinds of dreams do you have?
Would you like to be able to read your dreams?
Would you like to be able to read everything in someone's mind?
How interested are you in the meaning of dreams?
Has anything you've dreamt about come true?
Do you think scientists should unlock all the brain's secrets?
Could dream- / mind-reading technology be dangerous?
Would you buy technology that let you save dreams on your computer?
Whose mind or dreams would you like to read?
Could this technology cure the world's mental health?
Who would you allow to read your deepest thoughts?
How could this technology improve people's lives?
Step 6 - Writing
A survey about dreams
You are going to write a report about dreams.
First think of five questions about dreams and write them in the table.
Interview three individuals and write their answers in the table.
Use the information from the table to write your report.
In your report:
Start with an introduction.
Compare the answers of person 1, 2 and 3.
End your report with a conclusion.
Person 1
Person 2
Person 3
Question 1:
Question 2:
Question 3:
Question 4:
Question 5:
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: An impossible dream?
Have you got time left? Watch this!
You are going to watch an animation, issued by the U.N. It is about a family: a mother, a father a boy, a girl (and a baby and a grandmother; for the purpose of this assignment they are not important). You are going to observe one family member. Decide who you are going to follow.
Watch the animation, and focus on what 'your' character is doing. When you have finished watching, make a list of every action 'your' character performed. You may have to watch again. Distinguish between 'real life' and the dreams. Make a distinction between what happens in 'real life' and what happens in the dream sequences.
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Toelichting
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: In your dreams. Deze les staat in het teken van dromen en voornamelijk hoe er vroeger over gedacht werd en wat onderzoek er tegenwoordig over zegt. De onregelmatige werkwoorden in deze les zijn: to tear, to tell en to think. In de grammaticaopdracht wordt the first conditional behandeld.
Leerniveau
VWO 2;
HAVO 1;
VWO 1;
HAVO 3;
VWO 3;
HAVO 2;
Leerinhoud en doelen
Engels;
Eindgebruiker
leerling/student
Moeilijkheidsgraad
gemiddeld
Studiebelasting
1 uur en 40 minuten
Trefwoorden
arrangeerbaar, dromen in het verleden, droominterpretatie, engels, in your dreams, onderzoek, stercollectie, the first conditional, tto123, wetenschappers
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: In your dreams. Deze les staat in het teken van dromen en voornamelijk hoe er vroeger over gedacht werd en wat onderzoek er tegenwoordig over zegt. De onregelmatige werkwoorden in deze les zijn: to tear, to tell en to think. In de grammaticaopdracht wordt the first conditional behandeld.
arrangeerbaar, dromen in het verleden, droominterpretatie, engels, in your dreams, onderzoek, stercollectie, the first conditional, tto123, wetenschappers