LESSON PLAN
1. Class Profile
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Age: 18-20
Proficiency level: B2-intermediate
Class size: 25 students
Time: 45 minutes
2. Materials
 Images reflecting the idea of topic
 Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRvVFW85IcU )
 Handouts
3. Aims
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To enhance their vocabulary knowledge
To make students to be able to use vocabulary which are content-related
To improve their brainstorming ability
To make students discuss about topic
To improve their listening, speaking and writing skills
To make them work in pairs or groups
To improve their critical thinking ability
4. Potential Outcomes
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Students will be able to express themselves feeling no pressure.
Students will be able to understand and use the vocabulary in daily life context.
Students will have a perception of the nature of justice and morality.
Students will be able to brainstorm in a discussion topic.
Students will be able to learn to discuss in pairs or groups.
Students will be able to pronounce the words correctly.
LESSON STAGES
1. Pre-stage
-Warm up
Teacher comes to classrooms and greets the students. He/she shows some images and wants
students to think about the topic of the lesson.
Students come up with ideas of justice, fairness and morality. Then, he/she shows some quotes.
-Discussion
Teacher asks students a question to discuss: Are we born with concept of justice or is it shaped by
society, religion, laws or other codes of society?
Teacher wants them to make groups of 5 and reach a consensus.
2. While-stage
Teacher gives students handouts and wants them to fill the gaps in the papers while they are
listening to the video teacher will show them. Teacher shows the video.
Fill In The Gaps Activity
“They showed babies like James here a puppet behaving badly -- instead of rolling the ball back to
the puppet in the middle, this green-shirted bunny keeps the other puppet's ball, and runs away.
Then James is shown a second show -- this time the bunny who he just saw steal the ball, tries to
open up the box to get the toy. Will James still prefer the puppet who helps out? Or will he now
prefer the one who slams the box shut?
[Annie: Who do you like? That one.]
He chose the one who slammed it shut, as did 81 percent of babies tested. The study's conclusion:
babies seem to view the ball thief "as deserving punishment."
Lesley Stahl: So do you think that babies, therefore, are born with an (1)__________ sense of justice?
Karen Wynn: At a very (2)___________ level, I think so.
Paul Bloom: We think we see here the (3)___________ for morality.
Paul Bloom is also a professor of psychology at Yale, with his own lab. He's (4)___________ with
Wynn on many of her baby studies, and he also happens to be her husband.
Paul Bloom: I feel we're making discoveries. I feel like we're-- we're discovering that what seems to
be one way really isn't. What seems to be an (5)___________ and unknowing baby is actually a
creature with this alarming (6)____________, this (7)___________ knowledge.
And he says discovering this in babies who can't walk, talk, or even (8)___________ yet, suggests it
has to come built in.
Lesley Stahl: So, remember B.F. Skinner, who said that we had to teach our children everything
through conditioning. So, does this just wipe him off the map?
Paul Bloom: What we're finding in the baby lab, is that there's more to it than that -- that there's a
universal moral (9)___________ that all humans share. The (10)____________ of our understanding
of justice, our understanding of right and wrong, are part of our biological nature.
Wait a minute, if babies are born with a basic sense of right and wrong, a universal moral core, where
does all the evil in the world come from? Is that all learned? Well maybe not.”
3. Post-stage
Matching Activity
Teacher gives students handouts and wants them to answer the questions.
Subtle(adj) Seed(n) Innate(adj) Sophistication(n) Foundation(n) Ignorant(adj) Collaborate(v)
Elemental(adj) Crawl(v) Core(n)
Match the words in the box above with the sentences below. Words can be changed according to the
appropriate tense in the sentence.
1.You can grow roses from this ___________ . (seed)
2.He was told constantly that he was ___________ and stupid. (ignorant)
3.Failure is always apparent at this ____________ level. (elemental)
4.He ______________ with him on numerous hotel projects. (collaborated)
5.Her ___________ capacity for organization is quite impressive. (innate)
6.The plan has the interests of children at its ___________ . (core)
7.The tiny spider was _____________ up Nicky’s arm. (crawling)
8.This idea is the ___________ of all modern economics. (foundation)
9.The German plan was simple yet ___________ . (subtle)
10.The products of the company include technological ____________ . (sophistication)
Writing Activity
Teacher asks students what they think after watching the video and whether their thoughts are
changed or not. Then teacher wants students to write down a paragaph about their thoughts and if
they have changed their minds on justice and moral values by relating to the video.
Answer key
Fill in the gaps
1) Innate
2) Elemental
3) Foundations
4) Collaborated
5) Ignorant
6) Sophistication
7) Subtle
8) Crawl
9) Core
10) Seeds
Matching activity
1.seed
2.ignorant
3.elemental
4.colloborated
5.innate
6.core
7.crawling
8.foundation
9.subtle
10.sophistication