A country in the backyard

This lesson focuses on summarizing information, preciseness and spontaneity in expressing ideas about travel through the subject of micronations.

Warm-up

The lesson starts with a few general questions related to the student’s home country.

Vocabulary: Politics and governance

The student learns useful words and phrases used in politics and governance through a matching activity and by filling in the gaps (bill, capitalism, big government, etc.).

Video: Atlantium

The student watches a video about Atlantium, a micronation formed in a backyard. Then, they complete video comprehension activities.

They learn the difference between a micronation and a microstate.

Grammar: Coordinating relative clauses

The student learns how to coordinate clauses using coordinating conjunctions such as but and or. They practice applying their knowledge by combining sentences extracted from a text about the Republic of Molossia.

The lesson ends with an activity in which the student comes up with information about an imaginary micronation.