Are you sure of your insurance. Objective objectives. Making a power point presentation

Are you sure of your insurance?

Warm up:

·  Ask students to pay attention to the cartoon on the opposite page and discuss the following questions:

·  What is the situation in the cartoon all about and how is it connected with insurance problem?

·  Explain the meaning of the caption, “Well, what’s the good of having an insurance policy if you don’t use it.”

·  How valid is the cartoonist’s view about insurance? Do the students’ opinions coincide with the cartoonist’s one?

·  What questions does this raise for us to consider? (In what kind of situations is insurance indispensable and when it is just a waste of money?)

Objective objectives.

Start introducing objectives of the class to the students and ask them to prolong the list.

After completing this activity you will be able to:

·  Examine various kinds of insurance and explain why it is important in everyday life.

·  Discuss seven guiding principles of insurance and evaluate their topicality in our country.

·  Analyze the basic rules of risk management.

Ask students which of the objectives interests them most and if you had an expert in class, what questions would they ask about insurance?

Project work

Explain that in this activity students will be required to complete a project about the topics referred to in the objectives.

Based on what students learn about insurance from information bank, they will have the choice of completing one of the three types of projects below.

1)  Hold a how-to seminar

2)  Making a power point presentation

3)  Organize debate on topic: “TO Insure or not TO Insure – that is the question”.

Before getting down to project work have students explain their answers to the following questions:

·  What do you know about how-to seminars and what makes them efficient?

·  What are indispensible parts of Power Point Presentation? How to make it understandable and catchy and not to annoy the audience?

·  What is the aim of debate and what are the basic rules of organizing it?

Discuss with the class your specifications and expectations for the projects, including deadlines, criteria for grading their how-to seminars, presentations and debate.

Explain to students that most of the information for their projects should come from reading the bank of information and fulfilling tutorials. Divide the class into three groups. Assign each group a different one of the following abstracts and related websites to read

Arming yourself with the basics Insurance Basics.doc/Bank of information folder;

Seven guiding principles of insurance

Access: p.17-23 Insurance For Dummies.pdf/Bank of information folder

Practicing the ARRT of Risk Management Access: p.26-29 Insurance For Dummies.pdf/Bank of information folder.

After completing their readings, have students explain their answers to the following:

·  Describe what new information you found on the page(s) you read

·  What did you learn about the topics from your reading and which conclusions  did you make?

·  What other questions do you have about the project?

Summary:

Ask students to explain their answer about the following question:

What do you hope to learn by completing this project?

Warm up:

Project 1 How to seminar on insurance

Make up a plan of a how-to seminar on insurance and then hold the seminar in class. The seminar should introduce the topic of insurance to unprofessional audience; explain basic ideas and guiding principles of insurance and its main kinds. The seminar should refer to what you learned about insurance, kinds of insurance, basic insurance principles and rules of risk management.

To prepare for your project, you’ll need to access the three tutorials on the pages indicated below. Follow the directions that come with the tutorials. After completing these tutorials, you’ll be ready to start your project.

Project 2 Make a Power Point presentation