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Reading - Pre-Intermediate level

Reading
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students are going to read a piece of reading about fast life pace and technology-based life style which leads to our impatience.

Materials

SB and Pictures

SB and Pictures

Main Aims

To provide detailed, gist and scan reading practice using a text about Why are we impatient? in the context of Impatience

Subsidiary Aims

To provide clarification of Types of numbers and some adjectives in the context of imatience, life pace

Procedure (36-45 minutes)

Warmer (4-5 minutes) • To set context and engage ss

In this stage students are asked questions about their patience and they do the questionnare on book about "How patient they are".

Pre-reading (8-10 minutes) • To prepare ss for the text

In this stage students are going to learn new vocab items. Number types: 50%, 1/2, 9/10. time-wasting (adj), life pace (n), irritable (adj), frustrated (adj), impatience (n) Ss should make examples with new words.

While-reading 1 (8-10 minutes) • To provide ss with gist questions

In this stage ss read the article quickly and answer following gist question: •Do people like waiting?why/why not?

While-reading 2 (8-10 minutes) • To read the article again and answer qs 1-8 on SB

In this stage ss should read the article in order to answer more detailed questions. Then they should underline 5 technology words in the article.

Post-reading (8-10 minutes) • To provide ss with speaking-based questions and give them a chance to talk about the text they've read

Ss will be aske to discuss following questions in groups of 3: 1. Do you think the statistics are true in your country? 2. Which of the time-wasting activities annoys you the most? Why? 3. Do you think it's a good thing that life is getting faster? Why(not)?