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The People Watchers
Intermediate level

Description

This reading lesson plan includes different stages to help students improve their reading comprehension and language abilities. The lesson starts with context setup via picture talks, and then moves on to a word matching task to help with understanding. After that, students read the article to confirm their original thoughts and answer questions. They take notes under specific topics, compare them to their classmates' notes, then present their discoveries to the class. Finally, students participate in topic-based conversations while receiving linguistic feedback from the teacher. The lesson plan intends to activate background knowledge, improve vocabulary comprehension, promote active reading, encourage note-taking, and build meaningful dialogues.

Materials

Abc Pre-Reading Discussion
Abc Vocabulary
Abc Answering the Questions
Abc Making Notes Under Headings
Abc Discussion Questions
Abc Busy Street Scene Photos

Main Aims

  • To provide gist, scan, detailed, deduction and inference reading practice using a text about "the people watchers" in the context of "emotion".

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of "the people watcher".

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (0-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

The teacher sets the context by showing some photos of busy street scenes and asks Ss to speculate about the people in the photos in pairs.

Pre-Reading (0-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

In this part, first the teacher asks students to work in pairs and discuss the questions in Ex 1A "What do you think ‘people-watching’ means? What professions need to be good at people-watching? Why?" In feedback, the teacher elicits Ss' ideas but doesn't give any answers yet. Then the teacher gives a worksheet in which students need to match the words with their meanings to comprehend the reading text more easily. In feedback, the teacher asks one of the early finishing students to write his/her answers on the board to check as a whole class. Then the students do skim the article to check their ideas.

While-Reading #1 (0-10 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading tasks

In this part, the teacher asks students to read the text alone first and then work in pairs to answer the questions in Ex 2A. In feedback, the teacher elicits Ss' answers with their justifications.

While-Reading #2 (0-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed reading tasks

In this part, the teacher asks students to read the text carefully and take notes under the following headings in Ex 2B: "1.People involved in the programme, 2.Situations, 3.Conclusions from the experiments". Then the students will work in pairs to check their notes. In feedback, the teacher nominates Ss to explain their notes to the class.

Post-Reading (0-8 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned through speaking activity

In this part, the teacher re-groups the students and distributes a worksheet on which students can find topic-related and individualized questions to discuss with their pairs based on their own experiences. During the discussion, the teacher takes notes for good and bad examples of language and provides delayed F/B.

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