- Playing a soundtrack and letting Ss guess the topic - Brainstorming - Asking Ss if they have ever heard about strange news

- asking Ss to talk about their experiences in having or hearing bizarre news - joining them and listening to their discussions to correct their possible mistakes in terms of pronunciations, conjunctions and form

- showing a powerpoint slide - asking a volunteer to go to the WB and match each tense to the appropriate sentence

- handout the pictures - ask them to predict the story - ask Ss to guess the answer of the question mentioned - ask Ss to write their own Wh-questions with as below: Who...? Where...? How.....? When.....? What....? Why.....?

- give the due instructions before handing out the reading papers - set a time-limit between 15-20 minutes - ask them to read the text individually - make sure that they do not do it as a pair-work activity - ask them to find the answer of the main question (What is the story about?) - ask them to find the answer of their own questions as mentioned in the previous stage - ask them to check their answers in pairs

- play the listening - checking students' answers with the answers mentioned in the listening

- handout the papers - ask Ss to read the blank-including questions first to have a knowledge of the listening - play the listening - ask Ss to listen to the listening carefully - set a time-limit - ask Ss to fill in the blanks on the handouts individually - Ask Ss to check the answers with their partners - nominate Ss to read the answers - Show the correct answers as the final slide to check their answers

- give instructions - ask the main question: "Do you think it's possible to live so long with only snow to eat?" - ask them to speak in pairs - join each pair to check their ideas - correct their possible errors - checking CCQs - give handouts (transcripts) to make sure they have understood the whole story