Easar Yahyazadeh Easar Yahyazadeh

Poem
Preintermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will learn past continuous and new vocabulary through reading "Three Poets"

Materials

Abc True or false handout

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson students will have practiced Reading Skill. They will read and understand and discuss fiction text

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice of insects and also keywords in the text
  • By the end of the lesson students will learn: Grammar of past continuous text

Procedure

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

To do the greeting , use two ways, one of them is "Find some one who" and show students three pictures of three poet and ask them if they know them or not. Because of the students' level and their ages I should ask many questions about the subject eg. Have you read any poem before? How often do you read poem? How are poems different from stories? How are they the same? Why are some poems easy to remember?

Pre-Reading (5-7 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

show them the video of why do people write poems?

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

Play the audio and ask students to read along with it. Ask gist question to check students' overall understanding of each poem. Give students few minutes to skim the text before answering. 1) Why is the raisin dangerous? 2) How can you change the world? 3) What is the poem ' But I wonder ' about ? 4) Why is the boy unhappy? Ask students to focus on highlighted vocabulary and teach vocabulary with flash cards and teach students context's words : insect , escaped , shooting star , leaping . Do comprehension part of the course book Ask students to raise their hand when I name their favorite poem and on the board keep a tally of the number of students who preferred each poem. Initiate a class discussion by telling students which poem you like the best and why. Part A : Have students complete the exercise independently and then compare their answers with a partner. Part B: Because of the level and age of the students I am going to ask many questions to help them think deeply. 1) In the most pictures, what color is the sky? 2) What color does the poet tell the reader to paint the sky? 3) What about the grass? What color does the poet tell the reader to paint the grass? 4) Why do you think the poet tells the reader to paint colors that we are not used to seeing? Part C: I would ask students to do this part as a group activity by having each of them take a turn reading a word or a sentence and also having another student in the group say the matching word or sentence. At last they should check answers with each other Then For extra task if time let me I will do on 'True-False' handout

While-Reading #2 (10-12 minutes) • teach grammar past continuous

Talk about an story ' What was going on?' students will have 3 minutes watching the photo and then talk about that photo and use at least 5 sentences to describe that with past continuous tense. Then show them many pictures as examples of past continuous then we play the audio of part D and ask them to do part E , F ,then play a game with students. Game's instruction: In this fun past continuous game, students use the word while and the past continuous to make sentences about what they and other students were doing at certain times in the past. Choose a time in the past and tell the students to think about what they were doing at that time, e.g. 8 o’clock last night. One student begins by telling the class what they were doing at that time, e.g. 'I was watching a movie at 8 o’clock last night'. The next student then repeats the previous student's sentence using while and adds what they were doing, e.g. 'While Tom was watching a movie, I was playing a game on my phone'. Then, each student in turn repeats the previous students' sentences with while and adds their own sentence, e.g. 'While Tom was watching a movie and Derek was playing a game on his phone, I was waiting for a bus'. If a student can’t remember another student's sentence or makes a grammar mistake, they are out of that round. The round finishes when the turn comes back around to the first student. Students score one point if they manage to stay in the game.

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

Ask students to do 'drag the words' in the class and make sure they learn it completely Homework Assign part G of the main book and also page 33 and page 34 part G,H of the grammar book Ask students to do their best and sing a simple song or write a story and use their imagination for that

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