Reading lesson 1
Pre intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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The main objective of the lesson is to practice listening skills through the use of a radio interview.
Subsidiary Aims
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Students will practice their speaking skills as a result of discussing the situations presented in the audio file and the questions proposed by the teacher.
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
Set up: Students will be shown a series of images about jobs considered dangerous. Task: They will be asked if they know of other jobs that have that level of danger and if they would do any of them. They are asked how dangerous the work they do is. Feedback: Teacher helps with some dangerous jobs to improve vocabulary.
Setup: Teacher sets a slide with questions. Another slide with the pictures needed for the stages is prepared. Task: To continue with the topic of jobs with certain particular characteristics, the students are asked a couple of questions about the jobs they wanted to do when they were children and what jobs they consider interesting today. Before the audio, they are presented with three words that may be challenging for students of their level and who are in the interview: Furniture (n), Lie (v), Diver (n). It is about them giving or discovering the meaning among themselves and at the end they are presented with a formal answer of its meaning and pronunciation. They are shown three images about the jobs that will be mentioned in the radio interview and they are asked to try to identify what type of jobs they are, to make hypotheses about them. Feedback: Teacher talks about some important errors students could have made while discussing, inly a mistake that could be negative to the general understanding of the message,
Setup: An audio file is prepared for the lesson. Task: Students are asked to listen with all their attention and, if possible, take note of any words that may cause difficulty. This is so that after the first reading they can resolve any important doubts that arise and thus in the second reading they can understand much better. After the first reading, they are asked if they can now identify the jobs in the images and if their hypotheses were correct. Did you know those jobs existed? If you had to choose one of those jobs, what would it be? Feedback: Teacher will discuss briefly some of the answers the students gave to the questions.
Setup: The same audio file will be used. Google forms. Task: With the second listening exercise, students will receive a series of more detailed questions, taken from the student book on page 26. These questions will be delivered using Google forms, this way they can be discussed with the group question by question seeing the amount of students who were correct in the answer. Feedback: At the end, the correct answers are presented and there is a discussion for a couple of minutes about any question that has generated difficulties or a big difference between the answers provided by the students.
Setup: Presentation with questions. Task: Once the listening exercise has been completed and the questions have been answered, the last part of the class is dedicated to discussing unusual jobs, jobs that the students know exist, perhaps from friends or family, and again asking if they would do them, if they had to choose any of those strange or unusual jobs, which one would they choose and why?. Always trying to get them to use the present simple and present continuous tenses in their arguments as a way to practice the grammar of the lesson. Finally, the class is closed and the students are invited to perform certain exercises from the workbook.