Reading Lesson
Intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will be able to understand and discuss ideas about introversion and extroversion, and infer personality traits from spoken and visual input, supporting their opinions with reasons.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide understand key vocabulary related to personality and society - to identify the main idea and specific details in a reading text - to express opinions and give reasons in group discussions
Procedure (28-40 minutes)
The teacher shows an image titled "Which dog are you?" on the screen. Students are asked to pin themselves on the image using Mentimeter, based on which dog they identify with most. Students briefly observe the results without discussion.
The teacher then shows two contrasting images: one showing group work one showing working alone Students answer the question on Mentimeter: "Where do you think better ideas usually come from?" a. Group work b. Working alone c. Both Students first vote individually and then briefly discuss their choice with a partner.
The teacher introduces key vocabulary from the text using Mentimeter meaning-discovery questions (multiple-choice). Students work individually to choose the correct meaning of each word. The focus is on understanding meaning through context, not direct definitions. After checking answers together, students move to a fill-in the blanks activity. Students work in pairs to complete a fill-in-the-blanks task using the target vocabulary. They discuss any uncertain answers with their partner. The teacher conducts brief whole-class feedback to confirm answers.
Students look at the four photos of famous people in Exercise 4a. They read the text individually and silently to answer the gist questions: What do you know about these people? Do you think they were/are introverts or extroverts? Why? Whole-class feedback is conducted to confirm general understanding.
The class is divided into groups. Each group is assigned one question from Exercise 4c. Groups re-read the text and work together to find their answer. Students are encouraged to agree on one clear answer with reasons. When time is up, students share their answers with classmates, explaining their ideas.
The teacher creates groups. Each group looks at Exercise D in the coursebook. Students take turns asking and answering the questions in the D section. Whole-class feedback is conducted to confirm general understanding. Then, the teacher plays three short interview clips. In the videos, celebrities do not say whether they are introverts or extroverts. Students watch and focus on: body language way of speaking interaction style. Each group writes one post on Padlet using this frame: "We think ______ is more introverted / extroverted because ______." The teacher briefly highlights 2-3 ideas on the board.
