Amina Amina

Life stages, Reading
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students learn new vocabulary through a news article talking about different stages of life. The lesson starts with discussing how long an average person lives. Then, we discuss different ideas about the person who we are reading about by having the class answer questions in pairs.After reading the passage , the students check answers individually. Students check to see how much they remember specific information, first by putting the topics in order, then by answering questions from the test.

Materials

Abc WB
Abc Handouts
Abc Handout

Main Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about Life stages in the context of Birthday, family

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a Conversation in the context of Family

Procedure

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

Asking Ss about average life expectancy in Turkey. Write title on the WB and discuss.

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Ask Ss how they think Maria will celebrate her birthday. Get ideas from Ss , put in pairs and give questions in ex.1. They discuss their ideas and get FB .

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

Tell Ss to read to find out if their answers are correct. give out text, and Ss read individually to check answers. Ss check in pairs. Take W/C FB

While-Reading/Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Ss turn text face down, and have them read topics in ex.3 and put them in order in pairs. Then Ss read the text again and check their answers. Discuss and take whole class FB. Divide Ss into groups and give handouts ( 2 sets of Group A, 2 sets of Group B) answer the questions and check their answers themselves.

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

Have the Ss test each other by PW ( 1A with 1from B), they test each other. Take whole class FB . Ss stay in pairs and discuss ex.5. Take W/C FB.

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