Michael Mutlu Michael Mutlu

Family lesson
Upper Intermediate level

Materials

Abc Inside Out Upper Intermediate

Main Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about family in the context of shyness with parents

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification and review of family lexis in the context of parents that are irritating

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

1.Ss will be asked what kind of professions the parents in the picture have. This will involve eliciting. 2. Seats will be labeled with names "Alex, Kayleigh and Gina." Ss will constitute groups with each group having been separated according to each person. (Each group will have either "Alex, Kayleigh or Gina." 3. Ss will be asked what the parents' hobbies, jobs are.

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

1. Adjectives will be pre-taught. 2. Ss will be split into pairs. 3. Ss will be asked to say which emotions match the correct picture. (These adjectives will be part of a HO that Ss will have after preteaching.) Teacher will match adjectives to WB.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

1. SS will be in pairs and will be asked to read article about each person. The text will be part of a HO. 2. Ss will be asked to do example 3 (matching exercise). This will be part of HO with example 3.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

1. SS will be asked to arrange jumbled words. (HO) 2. SS will be asked the meaning of each task (each question from example 4).

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Describe a time that your parents were irritating. Why?

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