Reading lesson
Intermediate B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist, scan and detailed reading practice using a text about marriage and divorce in the context of Wedding party
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice on phrasal verbs in the context of wedding party
Procedure (43-52 minutes)
1- Greet your students and tell them they are going to watch a short video. Ask them to listen carefully because your going to ask them some questions about it. 2- Get them to watch 1 minute of the video "lighting the candle of unity" 3- Ask them "what's our topic for today?" 4- Ask Ss general Questions about marriage traditions in their countries ( cost, who pays the wedding expenses ....etc) let them discuses this in pairs.
1- Give students the pre-reading HO. 2- Let them match the word with the pictures then with the antonyms. 3- Ask CCQs to check understanding. 4- Quickly clarify any problematic word.
1- divide the text into 4 paragraphs and design a clear headline for each one. 2- Split the class into 2 groups. 3- Hand out the paragraphs to the groups. 3- Get the headlines written on a Hawaii Skirt. 4- Stick the headlines on the WB and each group sends one representative to pick on a headline and come pack to his friends. 5- Together they must attach each paragraph to its headline. the team finishes first wins. 6- Deliver HO2 and ask students to skim the text and answer the question individually. have them to check their answers in pairs then hand out AK.
1- Give Ss HO3. 2- Let them figure out individually first what dose the articale say about the numbers. 3- Let them check in pairs. 4- give w/c feedback.
1 Deliver HO4 2- Ask students to write on a pieces of paper all the bold phrasal verbs. 3- let them match the verbs to the definition. 4- give them a brief idea about multi word verbs.