Zaynab M. Hassen Zaynab M. Hassen

Black Swan Hotel/ Reading for specific information.
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will learn reading for specific information. Many students don't know how to answer questions they have been asked. They need to know that some questions can be answered by looking in one specific place. The lesson starts with introducing some vocabulary related to the topic by using visuals.Then, they will be given a hotel brochure followed by a number of questions. After that, they will have to read a dialogue and answer a number of follow up questions. After answering the question in pairs, they will rehearsal the dialogue. Finally, they have to reorder the dialogue.

Materials

Abc Put a tick or a cross.
1g8 black swan hotel uk sample A hotel brochure
1g8 black swan hotel uk sample A dialogue
Abc Matching
Abc Visulas

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, students should have learnt how to read for specific information /skimming. Students will try to learn how to read through a text in order to find information they are interested in.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Grammar: Students will learn how to use the imperative to give orders. Phonology: to focus on intonation when giving orders.

Procedure

Lead in (10 minutes) • To Raise awareness of what the lesson is going to be about and to elicit.

First, show the students a number of pictures related to hotel vocabulary in order to check their understanding of meaning of the words and to elicit. Then, give them a list of problems related to hotels which they will decide whether they are problematic for them or not. They will decide by putting a tick by the problematic ones and putting a cross by those which cause no problems for them.

Reading for specific information (5 minutes) • To teach students how to look for information they are interested in

Students will be asked to read a hotel brochure in order to answer a number of questions. Then in pairs, they will check their answers (peer correction).

Controlled-activity (10 minutes) • Scanning

Students will quickly read a dialogue in order to ask questions.

Role-play (5 minutes) • Students cannot write a dialogue because of timing issues. At least they should be given time to practice a written one.

Students in role-play will rehearsal a dialogue.

Ordering (5 minutes) • To teach students how to know the sequencing of events by looking for clues such as "time expressions", "linking words" , etc.

After rehearsing the dialogue, students will be asked to reorder the dialogue.

Controlled-activity (5 minutes) • Introduce students to the subsidiary grammatical aim, namely the imperative.

Ask students to underline the verbs that the hotel manager used to tell the repairman what to do (i.e to give orders).

Controlled-activity (5 minutes) • Give students confidence in using the new grammatical structure.

Set up the students into groups of three, then ask them to match halves of sentences which one half consists of a problem and another half consists of an order. Then, they can read them out.

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