TL4
Intermediate English level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Practice scanning in the context of time management.
Subsidiary Aims
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To familiarize students with organizational phrases.
Procedure (45-53 minutes)
Ss will be put into pairs and asked to discuss what they do to keep track of their days. Will begin by talking about how I use the calender on my phone to organize myself.
Presentation will be brought up on the projector and Ss will be asked to identify what is depicted. ECDW if necessary, but students should recognize everything except for maybe picture 'D'.
Ask the Ss to look for the 4 people in the text and to take note of what they do to stay organized. Allow Ss to underline and keep track any way they can.
With the projector, put the pictures up on the board and have the students try and match the people they just read about with the pictures. Allow them to go back to their notes.
Place the students into groups and open with explaining how the first example means the same as the underlined text. Then explain to them that they need to find the phrasal verb form of the underlined text in the article. Point out that the exercises will tell them in which line they'll find the answer by using the example.
Students will be split back into pairs. Have the students talk to each other about why they use scheduling, how it helps them and how it might make them feel better.
Ss will be put into paris and handed a worksheet. They'll discuss with each other, using the worksheet as a prompt, how organized they are.
Have the Ss switch partners and survey each other for another set of questions. Only hand this out if time is coming up far too short.