MOHAMMAD AL-KURDI MOHAMMAD AL-KURDI

Teaching Practice 5
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, the students are are going to learn about the weird phenomenon of crop circles through reading a text. They will start discussing what they know about the topic, then will read a text and understand it by answering some questions. After they learn more about it and get some related vocabulary, they will give their opinions about this phenomenon.

Materials

Abc Crops pictures
Abc Corp Circle Theories, Inside Out U18

Main Aims

  • To practice free speeking about weird natural phenomenon

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practice reading for the gist in the context of a crop circles text

Procedure

Warm-up (4-5 minutes) • To activate students and get them engaged in the topic

The teacher will write "weird" on the WB and ask the students for its meaning then elicit it. Then the students work in small groups to brainstorm for some weird phenomena or things they know.

Lead-in (5-6 minutes) • To introduce the students to the title of the text in hand

The teacher shows pictures of soybeans, corn, wheat, hay, and sugarcane and asks: what do we call these? what's the general name? "crops" Then the teacher asks the students: "have you ever thought that crops can be weird?" and elicits some answers and then says that crops form circles and shapes but does not introduce the definition of the "crop circle" yet.

Pre-reading (7-9 minutes) • To provide the students with information about the topic

The students will watch a video about "crop circles" and say what's the main idea of it. Feedback: sts check answers with a partner. The teacher elicits the meaning of "crop circles" and hands it to the students in the sheet for the next stage.

Reading (7-8 minutes) • To provide students with a gist reading to check previous predictions

The students will read the"Crop Circle Theories" in three minutes to get the main ideas of the text. Feedback: in pairs, they check their predictions of the video they have seen with their partners.

Reading for specific information (7-8 minutes) • To intervene the students in a detailed reading task

The teacher will hand the students a sheet of true/ false statements. They will correct the false ones. Feedback: students check their answers in pairs and then the teacher gives the answer key and explain any difficult words.

Speaking for fluency (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with sufficient time to produce the language

The teacher will write some language structures that will help for speaking like: I think ...... I don't think ...... Maybe it's ..... I've no idea. I haven't a clue. The students will work in groups of three to discuss the following questions: Then, they will work in groups to answer the questions: 1. What's "crop circles"? 2. Who or what do you think made them? 3. How do you think they are made? After they finish, they check their answers with the other groups, A's with A's and B's with B's.

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