Reading Lesson
Pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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The main aim here is to improve the gist-reading subskill. Besides that, the students will have a productive skills subsidiary task to improve their speaking fluency.
Subsidiary Aims
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To be able to speak freely using the topic on which reading skills have recently been employed.
Procedure (28-40 minutes)
I will write on the board ten words about animals but the letters of the animals will be scrambled. I will ask the students to stand up and come to the board one by one to write the names of the animals correctly.
Students work in pairs to talk about what kind of animals people have as pets in our country. Then we have WC feedback. After that they will tell each other their favourite animal with reasons. Then we have WC FB.
I will show project two pictures on the board and try to elicit them from the students. The words are "crazy about" and "lizard". With these words, the students will be able to understand the text better.
I will ask the students if they know any Americans who have pets. They will work in pairs and make a list. Then I will ask them to read the text quickly and underline the famous people it mentions. After the gist-reading I will have a WC FB.
I will project seven sentences on WB and tell the students to read them. I will them that those sentences explain how Americans are crazy about pets. I will tell the students that four of them are in the article. I will ask them to read the text again, this time slowly and choose the four sentences. After the task, I will have a WCFB.
I will have a role-play activity with the students. I will choose two students. One of them will be a cameraman and the other will be a presenter.They are coming from a different country, say France, and they want to interview with a few Turkish people on the street. The other students will be playing the ordinary people sitting on the benches on a park. The presenter with his cameraman will ask the Turkish people sitting on the bench this question: "Are Turkish people crazy about animals?" and will get answers.