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Reading on Inventions
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will practice comparatives and superlatives through a guided reading text about inventions in the 20th century. The lesson will start with a short lead-in activity which will be a game similar to hangman where T will put the class into two groups and elicit letters from each group in turns and give one point for one letter, eventually the word would read to ‘Inventions in the twentieth century’. The lead-in will be followed by a simple prediction task where the students will look at the title and the picture and predict the text. To find out if the predictions were correct, students will be assigned to read the text for gist and discover what the text is about. Subsequently, the students will be given questions were they will be required to read the text again for detail and answer the given questions. The reading activity will be followed by a productive activity of talking, were the students will talk in groups about what they think has been the most important piece of technology in the last 100 years and why they think so?

Materials

Abc Questions sheet
Abc Reading Text
Abc Slips of Vocabulary
Abc Pictures

Main Aims

  • To develop students' skills on prediction, reading for gist, reading for detail, and post reading skills.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To introduce vocabulary items related with inventions.

Procedure

Stage 1 (Lead in) (1-2 minutes) • To introduce the title of the lesson and to generate interest

-T will start with a game very similar to hangman, where T will draw lines on the board, divide the class into 2 max 3 groups and elicit letters from them. 1 point will be given for 1 letter and the group that gets the most letters is the winning group. the word will read 'inventions and technology' - T will then introduce the title of the lesson "this is the title of our lesson today, we will do reading and learning about inventions"

Stage 2 (Pre-teach necessary vocabulary) (6-8 minutes) • To give the meaning of the vocabulary that is mentioned in the text

- T will pre-teach the following vocabulary 'affordable, shrink / shrunk, urban living and amplifier' that is selected from the text. - starting with affordable, For meaning: T will put up the slip that writes affordable on it and show an object (watch) and say "this was 50tl, its not very expensive, so I was able to afford it - so its affordable." To Check understanding: - T will elicit the opposite of affordable, saying "how would you use affordable in a negative sentence" possible answer: "its unaffordable" - T will then drill Pronunciation, elicit the stress and what kind of word it is: which is an adjective. Conveying the meaning of Shrink/shrunk: - will put the word up on the board then show a picture of a top that looks normal and then show another picture of the same top that got smaller - T will say "my top shrunk due to wrong wash" and write shrunk next to shrink identifying that shrunk is the past tense of shrink. T will clarify further saying that "so it got smaller" To Check understanding: - T will ask CCQ questions as follows: "is this the normal size of my top?" (yes) "did the size get smaller or bigger?" (smaller) "was it because of wrong washing?" (yes) "so did my top shrunk?" (yes) - Then T will drill pronunciation and elicit the stress of the word and what kind of a word it is (verb) For conveying the meaning of urban living: -T will put up the word on the board and introduce two names 'Ahmed and Mahmud' "Mahmud lives in the countryside and Ahmed lives in the city" - T will elicit brief description about the possible living conditions in both places and at the end T will say: "one is country life, and the other is city life or urban life" To Check understanding: - T will ask "are you living country life or urban life?" (urban life). Then T will drill pronunciation, elicit the stress of the word and what kind of word it is. (adjective) For conveying the meaning of amplifier: -T will put up the word on the board and ask "when you go to concerts the music is low or loud?" (loud) " do you know how?" (possible answers: speakers..) "because they use amplifiers", then T will put up the picture of an amplifier. To check understanding: - T will ask CCQ question "if I turn on the amplifier would the music get louder or lower?" (louder). T will drill pronunciation, elicit the stress and what kind of word it is. (noun)

Stage 3 (prediction task) (2-3 minutes) • To predict and discuss

- T will give out the HO that is folded in a way where the text is hidden and its only the title and the picture that shows. - T will instruct "look at the title and the picture in pairs predict what the text might be about" ICQ's - "will you only look at the title on the picture?" (yes) - "will you read the text now?" (no) -"will you predict what the text is about?" -"will you write or talk?" (talk) - after a minute T will elicit ideas of prediction and write them on the board

Stage 4 (Skim reading for gist) (3-4 minutes) • Students will read for gist to see if their predictions hit the goal

- After writing the predictions on the board, T will then instruct the SS to read for gist 'to find out what the text is about' and if it matches with their predictions. - T will give 2 minutes. ICQ's - "will you read it carefully?" (no) -"will you read to get gist of it?" (yes) -"so will you read fast or slow?" (fast) -"how many minutes do you have? (2) -After 2 minutes, T will ask them to share ideas in pairs and then T will ask one by one if the predictions were correct or not.

Stage 5 (Reading for detail) (10-13 minutes) • SS will read for detail to be able to answer the related questions

- T will ask the SS turn over their texts, so that they wouldn't immediately focus on answering the questions when they receive it. - T will give out the questions and advice them to look at the questions after few seconds -T will say that "the following questions are about the text and that they should read the text "again carefully and answer them, you'll have 10 minutes ICQ's -"will you read the text again?" (yes) -"will you read fast or carefully?" (carefully) -"will you after talk about the text or answer the questions?" (answer the questions) -"how much time do you have" (10 minutes) - Once the SS have finished reading and answering questions, T will ask the SS to check answers in pairs -Then T will give the answer key for them to check and self correct their answers

Stage 6 (Follow up activity) (10-15 minutes) • For the SS to develop their productive skills in talking/discussing

- T will put the SS into small groups of either 3's or 4's - T will write the question 'what do you think has been the most important piece of technology in the last 100 years? - T will say "among all the inventions, I think transport is the most important piece of technology because now travelling is easier and affordable" - T will provide the instructions; " I would like you to also discuss in your groups (pointing at the question) what you think the most important piece of technology is and why you think so, you have 7 minutes" -T will then nominate some SS to report the decisions to the WC - During the discussions if any mistake was made T will make a note of it and do delayed error correction on the board.

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