Fatemeh Razavi Fatemeh Razavi

great weekend
pre-intermediate level

Description

This reading lesson explores why people sometimes exaggerate or lie about their weekends on social media. Students will develop their reading skills through gist, scanning and detailed reading tasks. They will also learn the meaning and use of -ed and -ing adjectives and discuss their own opinion about social media and fake weekend stories.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide scan, detailed and gist reading practice using a text about great weekend in the context of Fake stories about weekends on social media

Subsidiary Aims

  • To clarify and practise the meaning and use of -ed and -ing adjectives

Procedure

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

I will show students four social media posts about the activities I usually do on weekends, two of them are true, and two are fake. They have to guess which ones are real. Then I will show them some pictures about common weekend activities and I will ask them what they usually do on weekends and whether they have ever exaggerated their weekend experiences.

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

I will write four sentences on the board (1. The game was tiring. 2.The players were tired. 3. The news was surprising. 4. we were surprised.) Then I will ask CCQs: Who feels tired or surprised?(the players, we.) what caused these feelings?(the game, the news). I will write the following rule on the board (-ing describes a thing or situation/ -ed describes a person`s feelings)/to explain the form, I will write (verb + ing= adjectives/ verb + ed= adjectives) Then I will ask the students to complete the controlled-practice individually in three minutes. After that, they will compare their answers with a partner, and finally, we will check the answers as a whole class.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (6-8 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

I will ask the students to read the tweets individually for one minute. They will complete the gist task by deciding which tweets they think are true and which are probably fake. They will compare their answers in pairs and explain their reasons. I will conduct whole-class feedback and briefly confirm the answers.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (13-15 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

I will ask the students to read the article and find the following information as quickly as possible. I will remind students not to read every word. Students will scan the text to find specific information (numbers, percentages, names etc.) I will ask students to read the article again, this time more carefully. They will complete the reading comprehension task by answering the six comprehension questions and correcting the false statements using evidence from the text. After finishing, they will compare their answers with a partner. Finally, we will check the answers as a whole class, and I will ask students to justify their answers by referring to the text.

Post-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students will discuss the following questions in pairs. Then, they will share their ideas with the whole class: 1. Which is more important to you: having a good weekend or sharing it on social media? Why? 2. Do you think people post their real lives on social media? Why or why not? 3. If you wanted to lie about your weekend, how would you make it sound more exciting? I will monitor students during the discussion, take notes of common language errors, and provide delayed feedback after the activity.

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