New lesson plan: People and their money

SIDALI RAHBA

People and their money - upper-intermediate B2 level

People and their money
upper-intermediate B2 level

Description

In this lesson SS are going to do some gist and specific information reading in the context of people and their money. this will be followed by a jigsaw reading and relate stories about how people spend their money. Later on, ss will have some semi-controlled and freer speaking practice to expand on what they have learnt.

Materials

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Main Aims

To provide gist and detailed reading practice using a text about people and their money in the context of money and life.

Subsidiary Aims

To provide accuracy and fluency speaking practice in a Conversation in the context of money and life

Procedure (33-45 minutes)

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

- T asks students about their favorite phones' brands - After mentioning the " Apple brand" T asks students if they know who is the owner of the company. - T asks students to tell him what do they know about him, to raise the interest of richness and money.

Pre-Reading: Pre-teaching vocabulary. (4-6 minutes) • To prepare students for the texts and make them accessible

- T sticks some pictures on the WB. - Have students in pairs talking about the pictures and thinking about some related words. - T ICQs : *Are we going to work alone? No, in pairs. *Are we going to talk about phones' brands? No, about the pictures. - WCFB by asking students to report their opinions, and eliciting some of the target vocabulary.

While-Reading #1: Reading for gist. (5-8 minutes) • To provide students with a gist reading task.

- T sets students in groups of 3 or 2 according to availability. - T chests HO1 and tells students that they are going to read the texts and choose the appropriate title. - Have ss check in groups. - WCFB by nominating students from different groups to report their answers.

While-Reading #2: Reading for details. (13-16 minutes) • To provide students with a more challenging reading for specefic information task

- T chests HO2, and explain that they are going to read the text again more carefully and answer the questions individually. - T ICQ's: * Are we going to work in groups? No, alone. - Have them checking in pairs. - WCFB by giving the answer key. - T sets students in new groups in which each group will have a student who have read a different text than the others. - T tasks students to tell each other about the texts they have read. - WCFB by nominating some students to report which story they liked most and why.

Post-Reading: freer speaking practice. (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned through a freer speaking task.

- T tasks students to mingle arround the classromm asking their friends "How money(or the luck of it) affects their life", providing that they will talk to more than one person. - WCFB by nominating some students to report their partners' opinions.