New lesson plan: Reading- boring weekend

Parastesh Firouzi

Reading- boring weekend - Pre- intermediate level

Reading- boring weekend
Pre- intermediate level

Description

This topic covers the lies that people might tell to others about their weekends on social media to make them believe that they had a more entertaining weekend.

Materials

SB (reading)

SB (reading)

Main Aims

To provide detailed, scan and gist reading practice using a text about lies about an entertaining weekend on social media in the context of weekend

Subsidiary Aims

To provide clarification of lies about an entertaining weekend on social media in the context of weekend

Procedure (36-45 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

I will ask the students to read the four tweets about weekends and tell the class which one they think is true.

Pre-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

The students are going to learn these vocabularies: respondent (n)/ invent (v)/ colleague (n)/ getaway (n)/ fake tan (n)/ survey (n) through a game of "What am I?" where I prepare a bingo table of these terms and as I read aloud the definition of each one, the students have to guess what word the definition is for.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

In this stage the students are asked to read the article and answer the following questions in pairs: - Which one of the tweets are not true? - Why do they think said tweets aren't true?

While-Reading/Listening #2 (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

In this stage the students are asked to read the article again and correct the wrong information about the survey. Then check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class.

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

The students are asked to discuss the following questions in groups of three: - What do they usually say when people ask them "Did you have a good weekend?"? Is it always true? - When was the last time they had a really exciting weekend? What did they do?