Reading Skill
Upper-intermediate. level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist reading practice using a text about worst case scenarios in the context of possible accidents.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification about possible unknown vocabulary.
Procedure (28-35 minutes)
Teacher will project a slide where to introduce the topic "Worst case scenarios". T will show four different emergency situations. T ask Ss if they have been in a similar situation. T listen to the Ss' answers.
T previously chose four words to explain before reading the text. T shares screen where there are sentences with the words highlighted. T instruct Ss "We are going to do a quick activity, we are going to match the sentences with the cartoons." T nominates 1 Ss to match the first sentence. T ask other Ss to answer. After all sentences are matched, T explain the vocabulary highlighted and models its pronunciation. T asks CCQ's.
T shares screen and instrucs "Now you are going read about what you should do in different emergency situations. You will have 3 minutes to have a general idea and afterwards you will match the text with its title". T asks ICQ's. What are going to do? (Read and match the text with its title).How much time do you have? (3 minutes) After they read, T explains that they will compare anwers with a classmate. "Now I'll give you one minute to check you answer with your classmate, for this we will use a breakout room". T ask ICQ: How much time do you have? (one minute) After the minute T ask Ss to share their answers. Before moving to detail-reading activity T asks if everything is clear or if they have questions.
T shares screen for task 2. T instructs "Now you will have to read again and answer this questions, for this you will have 4-5 minutes, please write your answers on a paper or in the chat box". T ask ICQ's: What are we going to do? (Answer the questions). How much time you will have? (4-5 min). T instruct to start with the task. T explain that they will compare answers with a classmate in a breakout room. "Compare your answer with your classmate, you will have 2 minutes". T create breakout room and set the time. T monitores the breakout room. After 2 minutes, T nominates 1 SS to answer Q1. (If it’s not correct, T asks the opinion of another Ss to get the right answer. T would ask the SS to share the reason for their choice.) T repeats for Q2. Before moving on, T ask if there are any questions.
T shares screen. T gets the Ss attention. "For the final task, I want to discuss the following questions..." - Are there things that you used to do that are wrong? - What are you going to do differently? T gives them time to participate and share their ideas. T listens carefully to Ss and take notes in order to summarize their ideas. T stop sharing her screen and open the Zoom whiteboard. T writes sentences collected during monitoring and ask students to improve their sentences/phrases. T thank Ss for their time.