Ahmed Abdel Aziz Ahmed Abdel Aziz

Materials

Abc Face to Face Intermediate Student`s Book, PPT by me, images, video, google forms and docs

Main Aims

  • 1- Practicing skimming and scanning skills in reading 2- Increasing students` anticipation skills (through word-guessing activity)

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide scan reading practice using a text about lucky and unlucky people in the context of an optimist, attitude, pessimist, cheer up

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Students will watch a video and observe the opposing luck. I will ask them, did you face situations like those in the video before? what were they?

Pre-Reading (5-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

First activity: male students will be in one group to say which player is lucky/unlucky and why while female students will have 2 actresses in their group to discuss which one is lucky/unlucky and why. Second activity: students will work in 2 groups to discuss the following questions: -have you ever won anything? if so, what did you win? -do you think people are born lucky? why/why not?

While-Reading (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with some challenging reading tasks

Students are going to read for details about lucky and unlucky people. They are going to guess the meaning of words in pink.

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

Students will answer the following questions: Choose: 1-Richard Wiseman studies luck / is a very lucky person. 2-He thinks / doesn`t think that some people are born lucky. 3-His research shows that people can / can`t learn to be lucky. Answer theses questions: 1-Did Maureen Wilcox win the lottery? 2-How long has Wiseman been studying luck? 3-Do lucky people have more new experiences than unlucky people? 4-What was the aim of Dr Wiseman`s luck school? 5-How many people were luckier after going to luck school?

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