New lesson plan: Reading and Speaking

Marzie Naji

Reading and Speaking - Intermediate level

Reading and Speaking
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson the students will learn some reading strategies and homonyms in the context of human body clock and sleep.

Materials

Solutions student's book-intermediate

Solutions student's book-intermediate

Main Aims

To provide gist and detailed reading practice using a text about human body clock and sleep.

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of body clock

Procedure (36-57 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

In this stage I will tell my students how I slept last night and I will also ask them to share their experience and how they slept last night as well. Also we will shortly discuss the questions in Exercise 1.

Pre-Reading/Listening (5-7 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

We will go through and read the Reading Strategy, explain and review it together to make sure the students have learned and understood what to do. Also before going into the text and reading it I will explain the meaning of the words "lark" and "owl".

While-Reading #1 (2-4 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist information reading tasks

In this stage the students will be asked to read the text briefly to get the general idea that the text is conveying and answer Exercise 2.

While-Reading #2 (7-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading tasks

In this stage the students will be asked to read the text just a bit more carefully than before and mostly look for key words to find their answers and complete Exercise 3.

While-Reading #3 (10-15 minutes) • To provide students with challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading tasks

In this stage the students will read the text very carefully and line by line to answer the questions in Exercise 4.

Clarification (2-4 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

In this stage we will read the Learn This! box and I will clarify and explain homonyms and what they are.

Controlled Practice (3-5 minutes) • To provide students with controlled practice of the target language

In this stage the students will complete Exercise 5 and we will check it together. Then we will do a couple of examples for Exercise 6 and the students will do the rest of the exercise and Vocabulary Builder as homework at home and we will check them the next session.

Free Practice (4-7 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

In this stage the students will hold conversations in pairs answering the questions asked in Exercise 7 and then they will share their answers with the class.