Priscilla Joslin Priscilla Joslin

Reading Lesson
Pre-Intermediate level

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide reading practice for gist and detail using a text about a celebrity film actor.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a roleplay dialogue in the context of journalist and celebrity film actor.

Procedure

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

Show picture of Ewan McGregor and elicit from Ss if they know who he is. Ask Follow-up Questions: Have you watched a Star Wars movie before? Did you like it or dislike it? Why? If no students know who Ewan McGregor is ask them who their favorite actor is and why. Explain that Ss are going to read an interview with Ewan McGregor.

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

Meaning Show G-Doc. Explain to Ss they should match the questions 1-10 with the answers. Give an example by doing the first one. Share link in the chat and confirm Ss can can access it. Have students send answers in the chat. Check answers: 1. A) 2. B) 3. B) 4. A) 5. B) 6. C) 7. B) 8. A) 9. B) 10. C) Form 1. What part of speech is it? 2. Can we say 'He read script'? (No) Can we say 'He read the script'? (Yes) -->Spelling may be confused with “theater” (US vs UK). Clarify both are correct spellings; your text uses theatre. 3. What part of speech is advice? (noun) 4. If I say: 'I advise you to drink more water'. What part of speech is advise? (verb) 5. Can I say: “Will you give me an advice?” (No, advice is an uncountable noun, cannot say 'a/an advice'. Need to use: some advice, a piece of advice, any advice, etc.) -->Show that Father + hood makes it a state of being. Give examples of Mother-hood, child-hood, and parent-hood. Motherhood is a big change in a woman's life. My childhood was very happy. Parenthood can be difficult. 6. What part of speech is fatherhood? (noun)

While-Reading/Listening #1 (5-7 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Show G-Doc. Tell Ss they should match the interview questions with the interview answers. Instruction: You should read as fast as you can, you have 2 mins. Ignore individual words. Have students fill in the answer table at the bottom. Do 1st one for them as an example. Set the time. When time is up have Ss compare answers in pairs in BORs before OCFB. Answers: 1. E) 2. D) 3. C) 4. A) 5. B) 6. G) 7. F)

While-Reading/Listening #2 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Tell Ss they are going to read the text again and decide whether the 9 sentences in the Google Form are True, False, or Not Given. Highlight that NG means the information cannot be found in the text. Show the G-Form and do an example before sharing link in chat. Give 6 mins to answer then put Ss in pairs in BORs to discuss their answers. Encourage them to justify the ones they say are false or NG. Then have them submit their answers on G-Form. OC: Show Ss answers on G-Form responses and confirm. Answers: 1. False 2. True 3. Not Given 4. False 5. False 6. True 7. False 8. False 9. Not Given

Post-Reading/Listening (12-15 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

1. Share G-Doc in chat and put Ss in A/B groups to role play. As are the journalist interviewer and should read the questions prompts. Bs are the celebrity actors and should think up some details to answer the questions. Remind Ss that they should think about what kind of actor they want to be (drama, action, romance, comedy), when they started acting, and what movies they have acted in. Give 3 mins to let Ss decide individually and prepare. Elicit some suggestion in OC. 2. Monitor, listen unobtrusively for FB (good use of vocabulary related to films and acting). 3. Give DEC

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