I am going to show the students some pictures of mine while I have my winter blues and others while I do not. I am going to use some CCQs to check if they got the idea of "winter blues". CCQs: 1- Am I happy or sad in this picture? Sad 2- Am I wearing a coat or a light blouse? A coat 3- Is this picture in winter or summer? Winter Next, I am going to ask them to talk briefly if they knew SAD concept before or not.

To discuss the following 5 vocabulary that might stop students from understanding the text: 1- depressed 2- winter blues 3- light box 4- treatment 5- SAD I am going to elicit the meaning of them supported with pictures, examples and CCQs. 1- depressed Meaning: unhappy and without hope 2- winter blues Meaning: winter depression 3- light box Meaning: a box that shines with a bright artificial light similar to natural light, used to treat conditions such as SAD (= sadness and low energy caused by lack of light in winter), sleep problems, and skin problems. 4- treatment Meaning: the use of drugs, exercises, etc. to cure a person of an illness 5- SAD Meaning: an abbreviation for seasonal affective disorder: a medical condition in which a person does not have much energy and enthusiasm during the winter because of the reduced period of natural light I am going to use CCQs to assure that they got the meaning clearly: 1- Is the boy happy? No 2- What is that monster? depression 3- Do we have winter blues in summer? No 4- Is the light box helpful? Yes 5- Is bright light an illness? No 6- Is SAD an illness? Yes For the pronunciation, I am going to model and drill in chunks and show the linking in them. I am going to elicit the word stress. Eliciting the weak form. 1- depressed -Phonemic script: /dɪˈprest/ -Stress: is on the second syllable. 2- winter blues -Phonemic script: /ˈwɪntə bluːz/ -Stress: is on the first syllable of the word "winter" 3- light box -Phonemic script: /ˈlaɪt ˌbɒks/ -Stress: is on the first word "light" 4- treatment -Phonemic script: /ˈtriːtmənt/ -Stress: is on the first syllable 5- SAD -Phonemic script: /ˌes.eɪˈdiː/ -Stress: is on the last letter of the abbreviation. Form: I am going to elicit rapidly the form asking the students is it a noun, a verb, or an abbreviation. 1- depressed: is an adjective 2- winter blues: is an idiom 3- light box: is a countable noun 4- treatment: is an uncountable noun 5- SAD: is an abbreviation

I am going to introduce the topic of the article to the students. I am going to ask students to read individually the first paragraph and answer the question in EX.2.b. ICQs: 1- Are you reading the whole article or only the first paragraph? only the first paragraph. 2- Are you reading individually? Yes I am going to let them discuss their answers in the main room while I am asking for justification.

I am going to ask them to read the whole article and answer the questions of exercise 2.c. Then, I am going to send them to the breakout rooms for a couple of minutes to discuss their answers. I am going to get them back to the main room and discuss the answers through asking them for justification.

I am going to show the students a slide with a couple of questions which I want them to discuss together with their partners. I am going to ask the them to go to the breakout rooms to discuss together and I need them when they get back to the main room to talk about their partners if they have SAD in winter or not.

I am going to wrap up the ideas which were discussed in the session through a kahoot game. 1- Does healthy Hannah mean to love fast food? No what does it mean? 2- What is the speciality of Colin? 3- Where does Colin come from? 4- What does Luxury Lucy mean?

I am going to show them a couple of sentences I took them as notes while I monitor them in the breakout rooms. e.g. 1- present simple form 2- Pronouns.