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Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist and detailed reading practice using a text about The Best and Worst Countries to be an Expatriate in the context of living abroad.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of living abroad

Procedure

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

-T plays Hangman with the word EXPATRIATE. -Ss are asked what they think the meaning of the word is, and then to check it in their Eng-Eng dictionaries. -T drills the word chorally.

Pre-Reading #1 (7-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

-Ss are given 1 minute to think of and jot down 2 countries they'd want to be expatriates in, and 2 countries they wouldn't want to be expatriates in. -Ss work in pairs explaining the reason they chose these countries. They are given 5 minutes. -Ss are asked to save the piece of paper they wrote on for later. -T gets WC FB.

Pre-Reading #2 (4-7 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

-Ss are divided to groups of 3, given 4 minutes to use cut-ups to match words from the text with their definitions. -T hangs the answers on each of the classroom walls. -Ss of each group will alternate to go to one of the walls, check the answers then report back to the group.

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

-T writes the names of the countries mentioned in the text on the board. -Ss are asked to read the text and categorize the countries into two categories: Good for Expats, and Bad for Expats. -T gets WC FB.

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

-Ss take part in a jigsaw reading activity focusing on details that are mentioned about each region: being good or bad for expatriates. (Asia, Europe W/E, the Middle East) -T gives a number for every S with a specific geographical area to focus on. -T projects the numbers with the areas on the board. -Ss read their designated parts and take note about specific positive and negative points mentioned about expatriate conditions in each region. -Ss are asked to stand up and find people with the same number to check their answers. -After that Ss are asked to find other Ss with different numbers, exchange information with them and take notes. This continues until they have filled all the columns. -T conducts a WC FB by naming each number representing each region to summarize the specific information about their region.

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

-Ss are asked to look at the 4 countries they'd written at the beginning of the lesson and decide whether they want to make any changes or not. -Ss are asked to discuss in groups of 3 the following: 1. The reasons they changed or didn't change the countries on their list. 2. The advantages and disadvantages of being expatriates. 3. The reasons people choose to live abroad as expatriates. -T gets FB from different groups and concludes the lesson.

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