Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Mahmoud

Reading (Girls' Night Out)
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, students will develop their reading comprehension skills (skimming and scanning) and learn some new vocabulary through some guided discovery based on a reading text about "a girls' night out". The lesson starts with a discussion with the students about if women go out in their countries and where the women go. This is followed by a matching question and then a chart to complete after reading the text. Finally, there are some controlled practices where students are going to interview their partners about their night out via a final role-play speaking activity.

Materials

Abc PowerPoint Presentation
Abc Audio files/CD
Abc Handouts

Main Aims

  • In this lesson, students will learn to develop their reading skills, including scanning to locate specific information and skimming to get the gist of the text. They will also be introduced to new vocabulary and learn to infer the meanings of those words within the context.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practice speaking by using the (wh-)/(Yes-No) questions in the past simple to interview their partners through interactive activities.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

I will showing the students different pictures of girls' night out, then elicit: "Where are they? "What are they doing?" "Are they having fun?", after that asking them to discuss in pairs "Do women go out together in your country? Where do they go?"

Pre-Reading/Listening (4-5 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

presenting the pre-teach-vocabulary the students need to learn before they read the text by eliciting their meanings through asking some CCQs and drilling.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Asking students to look at the photo and read the reports for gist to answer the question "Where do you think the women are?". They write Rio de Janeiro, Beijing, or Moscow. Asking students to scan the reports to match the questions with the women's answers. Then asking them "Are these questions in the presents or in the past?" and "How do you know?".

While-Reading/Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

I will ask the students to look at the questions in exercise (a) and infer what the missing words are then they will check their answers with their pairs. Student will listen to the record and repeat these questions to practice, caring that "did you" is not stressed. Students will have one minute to interview me about a night out. Finally, students will think about the last time they went out with friends and plan some answers to the previous questions.

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students will go around the class interviewing their partner about their night out and asking them "Did they have a good time?" Then the teacher and the students will have an open discussion asking each student to share some information about their friends.

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