Teaching Practice 5
Pre intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To give students practice in reading for gist and detail in the context of reptiles with the text 'King Jim'
Subsidiary Aims
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To give students practice in speaking for accuracy.
Procedure (43-50 minutes)
- Show students some pictures representing some examples of reptiles to elicit the meaning. (snake, lizard, crocodile..) - Find out what students' attitude to reptiles is - Ask students some questions to activate their schemata * Do you like them? * Are you afraid of them? * Have you ever touched them? * What did it feel like? * Did it surprise them? - After ask some students these questions, let them speak about this topic in pairs.
- Elicit the words to be taught - Check the meaning -Drill and label the words - Write the words on the board (fascinated by, keen on,non-venomous, object to, cage, in a flash, horror)
- Stick 6 words from the text on the board. - Ask students to look at the words on the board and guess what the text is about. - Ask students work in pairs to do this task. - After the students finish the task , ask them to report their guesses about the text. - Give your instruction and ask them to read the text to find out if their guesses are correct. - Ask students whether their guesses are correct or not
- Ask students to look at the figures - Give your instruction - Ask students to scan the text and find the figures in the text and underline them. - Modal what you say
- Show students some figures about the text (2 years old-5 years old , 20 centimetres - 1 metre etc.) - Get them guess the links between figures and the text. - Give instructions for reading the text again - Ask students to scan the article for specific information to find the figures in the text. - Ask students to check their answers in pairs - Give feedback
- Ask students to think about a pet that they know - Introduce the list of questions to guide them while speaking - Ask them to tell their partners about the pets by looking the list they have on the paper. - Ask students to report their pair's pet