Reading for gist, specific information and detail, reviewing/practicing verb-noun collocations to talk about weekend activities, practice in speaking for fluency
Intermediate, B1+ level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide Ss with practice in reading for gist, specific information and detail in the context of happiness
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide Ss with review/practice of verb-noun collocations to talk about weekend activities
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To provide Ss with practice in speaking for fluency
Procedure (45 minutes)
T-ask Ss if they are happy now and why. Then T give a quiz (HO1) and ask them do the quiz individually and discuss the statements with their pairs . Then T project the quiz score and show them how they can calculate and what they mean. T- ask "Do you agree about what the score says about you? T- ask Ss discuss " What makes people happy?" and list some reasons for it.
T project some words from the text and ask Ss to discuss with their pairs if they know the meanings of those words and learn from them if they know. Then T- show some slides with pictures, definition and an example sentence to explain the words on each one. T model some of the words, drill them and show the stress. T focus Ss on the title of the text and get them in gw to discuss ideas about what it might be about.
T- ask Ss to read the beginning of the article and check their predictions from the first stage and find out how scientists made their top ten lists. And get them to peer-check, then take whole-class FB.
T- give Ss slips of paper(ten reasons for happiness written on them) and ask them work in groups of 3 and put them in order from 1-10(1=the most important). Ss read the text individually. Then again with their group Ss check and discuss if their ideas are the same with the text and find out reasons. Then T get whole class feedback
Ss work in different groups and discuss some opinion questions. As a feedback, T- ask for the intersting ideas.
T- ask SS their dream weekend activities and elicit some answers from them and write them on the board. Then T- ,get Ss in small groups to match the words with their collocations (they are most probably familiar with most of the words here) and after they finish T-project the answer key. T-carify the meaning of some words which Ss might not know and model and drill the pronunciation of those words and show the main stress. Then T- elicit & drill a couple of questions from ex 1b to get Ss started, then Ss work in their groups to ask and answer the questions. T-take some general FB.