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Health and fitness reading lesson
A1 level

Materials

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson, Ss will have developed the reading subskills of gist and detail within a health and fitness context

Subsidiary Aims

  • Teaching vocabulary, as well as writing and speaking fluency

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Open slides document and ask students to guess the topic of the lesson by looking at the images. Give them a minute or two to guess before revealing it to be 'staying healthy', then talk briefly about how you don't go to the gym and prefer to play sports, pointing out the sports on the slide. The students are put into breakout rooms to discuss gym membership - whether they go to the gym or prefer to do sports instead, and in the second case which sports they do or play. Set timer for breakout rooms for two minutes

Pre-Teaching/MFP (8-8 minutes) • Teaching difficult vocabulary items

Open slides document to MFP slide and screen share. Introduce each word individually, pronouncing them several times over and asking the whole class to repeat afterwards. After correcting any pronounciation errors, ask students to correctly place dot over word indicating where stress is placed. Upon finishing pronounciation task, ask students to match each word with its corresponding definition, before reading the definition out to the class. Ask CCQs to establish understanding of meaning: Healthy: Is riding a bike healthy? Can a plants be healthy? Why? Calorie: Where do we get calories from? Does a banana have more calories than a burger? Mile: Where do you think you might see the word mile written? Is a mile further than a kilometre? Member: Where can you be a member? A gymn. Ok, anywhere else? Can an animal be a member? Yes, the member of a particular species for example

Gist reading task (8-10 minutes) • To provide simple gist reading practice

Share google form with students via zoom chat, check they've opened the link using thumbs up or chat feature on zoom. Screen share quiz and explain the objective of the task: to read the article and choose the best headline. Once students are finished answering, put them into break out rooms for a couple of minutes to share answers. Provide the answers as part of open class feedback.

Scan reading task (8-10 minutes) • To provide practice for reading for specific information

Open slides document to screen share scan reading task. Explain the task to students - matching the fitness tips to the images. Demo "3. Walk around when you are talking on the phone. You use six calories every minute.", ask a student to read the text to the class and then reiterate the goal of matching text to image. When the student correctly chooses image B, check understanding with CCQs about the man in the picture e.g "how many calories is he using?", "Is he talking to someone? How?". Demonstrate completion of the first item by moving its text box accordingly. Assign each student to a slide and share the document with the class in the chat box. Allocate five minutes for students to individually complete the activity, then send them into breakout rooms for a further 5 minutes to compare their answers. Finish the activity with open class feedback providing the correct answers.

Follow up task (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Screen share final excercise of slides presentation. Explain the activity - to write a top five health tips in groups. Choose a student for demo, asking them if they can create a health tip using the word bank on screen. Assure students that word bank is just a guiding tool and they can introduce their own ideas too. Share document in chat and put students into peer groups, assigning them a slide to work with. Ask them to discuss in their groups ideas about health tips, typing them onto the allocated slide. Give them 8 minutes to do this, then conduct open class feedback reviewing efforts of all students, making corrections where neccessary.

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