Teaching practice No. 7- Reading and vocabulary
Upper intermediate B2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To engage students with the text, to provide ptactice in gist for reading and encourage extensive reading
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of writing, vocabulary and grammar in the context of Sense and sensibility story
Procedure (31-45 minutes)
Teacher show to students set of pictures of strong emotion expressions such as: cry your eyes out, cry with laughter, burst into tears and try to elicit the topic from the students oral question about the emotion they express.
Students skim the story/text quickly and decide which paragraphs are taliking about sad feelings and which about mixed feelings. Teacher asks the students how do you know?
Students read the extract and answer the three questions in exercise 2, page 116, then feed back with (the whole class) followed by exercise no. 3, page 116 where students complete this task individually before checking in pairs. Teacher monitor students while they are working and giving feedback. Early finishers can check the difference in meaning between the nouns grief, sadness and depression. If times allow - Teacher will Play the trailer from the BBC 2008 series of Sense and Sensibility and students will need to choose the correct sentence in Task no. 4 (adapted from the Internet).
If times allows - Teacher will Play the trailer from the BBC 2008 series of Sense and Sensibility and students will need choose to the best option to complete the characters’ lines. - Task no. 4 (adapted from an Internet source).
Teacher divide the class to two. Each student receive a piece of paper with a word from the story and he/she needs to find their match/partner from the other group. Ss will need to mingle and look for their partner.