do you worry about exams?
PRE-intermediate level level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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practicing skimming and scanning skills reading
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practicing skimming and scanning skills reading
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fiuency speaking in a conversation and discussion in the context of exam stress
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My subsidiary aims are;Reinforcing students comprehension skills through speaking and exposing them to some vocabulary such as habit-relax-routine-stress
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
Book closed walk into class and give students asurprise test revising five items from the course so far to elicit the answer in brackets e.g where are you from?[I am from ...[students country /city] How do you spell 'WONDERFUL?[W-O-N-D-E-R-F-U-I] What is a cupboard?[a thing with doors to put things in] What is the next number?1-2-4-7-11-16.......22] after checking answers ask students how do you feel? and elicit their feelings e.g Great; fantastic; Stressed; Worried and then look at questions in 1a
I will ask the students to divide into groups ask half of the groups to complete the sentence Before exam its good idea to .....in as many ways as possible and the half to complete the sentence Before exam its bad to ....e.g its a good idea to have lots of short breaks and relax. its a bad idea to worry and give students ideas if necessary regroup students and put them into pairs so that each pair one student has its a good idea sentence and the others has its a bad idea sentence .... students compare their ideas
students will continue working in pairs or groups of 3 and i will hand out sets of the reading exercise cut into different sentences chunks they will need to arrange the sentences chunks in the correct order with their partner i will give them 2-4 to do this when they have done this i will ask them to choose an appropriate title for the text
this time i will ask students to read the passage more closely and individually
for this part of the lesson I would like the students to focus how this text is important to do not be worry about exam