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Reading
intermediate level

Description

In this lesson the students will improve their reading comprehension skills and learn new vocabularies related to the passage. Students will develop strategies for understanding context and making predictions.

Materials

Abc WB and SB
Abc WB and SB

Main Aims

  • To provide skimming and detailed reading practice using a text about people thoughts and its affection on their life by being optimist or pessimist.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation on the text.

Procedure

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

In this stage the students are asked ( look at the cartoon in the article of a girl who has an exam the next day. Do you think she is optimist or pessimist?

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

The student are going to be thought the meaning of the vocabularies: Defensive(adj)-Situation(n)-Anxiety(n). The students will try to memorize their definition and start to use them in their examples.

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

In this stage, the students will read an article. They are asked to read the article and check. What is < defensive pessimist>?

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

In this stage, the students are going to read the article again. Then look at the things a defensive pessimist thinks about catching a flight. By looking at the cartoon in exercise e, page 47 and discussing with each other about what can he do to avoid these problems? Then they go to complete the sentences that has the same word in the article. They guess the meaning of the capital words in the following sentences: There is something WRONG with the printer. I'm sorry, you have the WRONG number. Our trip was fine, nothing WENT WRONG.

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 will be asked to discuss the following questions in group of 3: Do you think defensive pessimism is a good idea? Can you think of any situations where you behave in this way?

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