Benjamin Benjamin

Valentine's Day

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist and detailed reading practice using a text about Valentine's day in the context of the amount of money spent during this holiday and personal experiences

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of past experiences or ideas related to the presented article

Procedure

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

Show a few pictures and images of Valentine's day gifts and holiday decorations to have students guess about what the article will be about.

Pre-Reading/Listening (5-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Present questions to the students about their personal experience during the holiday this year or a previous year.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (5-10 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Form a general idea of the subject of the article.

Post-Reading/Listening (3-5 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Share what they've learned about the details provided in the article.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (5-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Take note of lexis that is new to Ss, try to identify the meaning with the provided article.

Post-Reading/Listening (3-5 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Share with classmates in pairs which words they've identified and help each other with words they don't know. If there are none, have them discuss their opinions on the statistics of the amount of money spent during the holiday.

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