Session 19 Going to Museums

• Greet your learner, then ask a few questions about how they’re doing (“How are you doing?” “How are you?”).
• Ask your learner to greet you and ask you how you’re doing as well.

• Read each question on the slide to your learner and ask them to answer it using the fill-in-the-blank statements as a guide.
• Feel free to add on to your learner’s responses once they finish or if they run out of ideas.

• Tell your learner that you will talk about the parts of a museum.
• Ask your learner to match the pictures (labeled with letters) to their corresponding description from the word bank.
• Challenge your learner to list the order they would visit each part of the museum shown.

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Suggested order:

Lobby → Ticket Desk → Cloakroom → Escalator → Exhibition → Gift shop

• Tell your learner that you will come up with a list of rules to be followed at a museum.
• For each number on the picture, ask your learner to say what’s wrong and come up with a rule based on the situation.

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Example: Label 1

What’s wrong? — The girl is roller skating in the museum.

Rule: Roller skating is not allowed at the museum.

• Tell your learner that a natural history museum is a place where objects related to the history of the earth are displayed. These include artifacts and fossils.
• Use the chart on slide 6 to point out the difference between fossils and artifacts to your learner.
• On slides 7–11, ask your learner to say whether the picture shown is a fossil or artifact and explain why.

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Note: On slide 11, your learner may say that a mummy is a fossil because it contains dead human remains, but also that it is an artifact because the sarcophagus and clothes are nonliving objects. Both options are correct in this case.

• Tell your learner that you will play a game where you will need to find 10 differences between two similar pictures.
• Open the game and share your screen with your learner.
• Work together with your learner to spot the differences between the pictures. Encourage your learner to use museum-related vocabulary when describing the differences.

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Answer Key:

• Tell your learner that you will learn about different types of art at an art museum.
• On slides 14–19, ask your learner to come up with their own definitions of a portrait, still life, landscape, abstract art piece, and sculpture based on the pictures provided.
• Encourage your learner to share with you which of the works of art shown they are familiar with.
• On slide 15, ask your learner to guess what season each portrait represents. Remind your learner that the four seasons are spring, summer, fall, and winter. Discuss which portrait of the four is your favorite.
• On slide 18, challenge your learner to discuss the symbolic meaning of Salvador Dali’s The Persistence of Memory.

• Optional
• Ask your learner to design their own museum using the mind map as a guide.
  • What would be the main topic of the museum?
  • What exhibits would be included in the museum?
  • What would be sold at the gift shop?
• Feel free to share your ideas as well.

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If your learner is struggling with ideas, encourage them to think outside the box. Tell them about the different odd museums around the world, such as the Coca-Cola Museum in the US or the Underwater Museum of Art in Mexico, to give them some inspiration.