What a planker!
Here’s a fun lesson plan for teens which gets their creative juices flowing and includes authentic listening from the other side of the globe.
To begin, show your students the following pictures, which can be found on facebook’s Planking Community page, and ask them what they think the person is doing. My students came up with some great ideas, as you can see from their comments below…
Show the video to the students, then ask them to watch again and answer the first four questions on the handout, which can be found on my Activities for your Classroom page. Correct the handout and discuss the next three questions, before asking students to do the gapfill activity, adapted from a BBC news article, at the bottom. You can then show them a second video of the news report following the young man’s death. I think it’s important to see both the fun side of the activity and also the dangers, I certainly wouldn’t want to encourage students to try stunts like these.