New lesson plan: Reading and Speaking: "Ruth Rendell"

Imen Yakoubi

Reading and Speaking: "Ruth Rendell" - Upper-intermediate class level

Reading and Speaking: "Ruth Rendell"
Upper-intermediate class level

Description

The class is composed of ten students (more or less) who came from different backgrounds, ages and mindsets: (South Americans, Europeans, and Arabs). The students seem very motivated to learn English, some of them are from Ecuador, they join class at 4 am in the morning and that is because of the time difference; they are very engaged to develop their linguistic skills. They are poised and very friendly people.

Materials

Ruth Rendell text Unit 3" Kindness of Strangers"

Ruth Rendell text Unit 3" Kindness of Strangers"

Main Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a criticising and describing literay work in the context of Literature and fiction work

Subsidiary Aims

Encourage students to read more novels and short stories

Procedure (37-45 minutes)

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

Display some photos about horror and crime movies covers and ask students whether they like watching this kind of movies; What about crime fiction books? What do you like about ? What dont you like about? What was the most intersting book or movie that you really liked and why?

Useful Language (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Pre-teaching vocabulary : page-turner; spine-chilling;fiction; suspense;prolific; thriller; pen-name; mystery students have to find themselves the meaning and compare their work with their peers

Reading t ask (18-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target receptive skills

Get the students to read properly the question, then make their guesses before proceeding to reading (two short text: a profile and a book review) Answer the questions about how to describe a literay work/an author

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

This stage will rely on peer correction as instructed before; students need to check with each other their answers under my assistance.