New lesson plan: Receptive Skills 1

Gabriela

Receptive Skills 1 - Upper intermediate level

Receptive Skills 1
Upper intermediate level

Materials

Going Wild In The City article - Face2Face

Main Aims

To provide reading practice for gist and specific information for an article about wildlife in the city.

Subsidiary Aims

to provide clarification for these words: prey, swoop, flourish, unsightly

Procedure (45-55 minutes)

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

Ask the students: are there animals that live near your home or work? What are they? Are they harmful or beneficial?

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

We will be going over these words: Swoop, Prey, Flourish, Unsightly (using Google Docs)

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

The students will read the text quickly to get a general idea of the story. They will then be presented with these questions: What do you know about the birds mentioned in the story? What city are they in? What do you know about this city? What happens to the pigeons in this story? How does David locate or find the falcons?

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

Students will read the text again, this time slower, to get more detailed information. They will be asked to answer fill-in-the-blank questions. The questions are: Falcons are bird hunters and can reach amazing speeds of ___(280 kph). Falcons don't actually ___(harm) the birds they chase. Dubai, a city which has___ out of the desert (risen). He's using the ancient Arab sport of ___(falconry).

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Ask the students to discuss the text further. Discuss: Should humans help wildlife/animals living in the city? How could we help? Review errors, answer students' questions.