New lesson plan: Megacities ( Reading and Listening Lesson)

María Trinidad Barrios

Megacities ( Reading and Listening Lesson) - Elementary ( A2) level

Megacities ( Reading and Listening Lesson)
Elementary ( A2) level

Description

This lesson will be delivered on Wednesday 27th September. Teacher: Trini Students: Yesenia, Ximena, Daniela Yellowstone Language Center In this lesson Ss will have the opportunity to practise their reading and listening skills in the context of megacities.

Materials

Coursbook Headway 1 ( Authors Liz and John Soars)

Main Aims

To provide gist, scan and detailed practise of reading and listening skills in the context of megacities

Subsidiary Aims

To provide review of of comparative and superlative forms in the context of megacities.
To introduce vocabulary related to city and small towns, and give Ss some opportunities to practise it.
To provide Ss with opportunies to practise their speaking skills in the context of megacities.

Procedure (53-69 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

I´ll ask Ss if they know the meaning of megacities, and of they say yes I´ll ask them whether they can provide any examples. Then we´ll watch a short youtube video about megacities.

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

To prepare Ss for the activities we´ll do Ex. 1 and 2 on page 70 ( Ss will make predictions about what the text information is)

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-15 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

I´ll set Ex. 3 and give Ss time to work on it individually. Then they´ll do Ex. 4 in which they´ll share their ideas with the class about the different megacities.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (13-15 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

In this moment of the lesson, Ss will work on Ex. 5 ( Listening for details), they´ll do it individualy and then we´ll correct as a class. The project will be set for homework for next Monday ( They´ll have to do research about a different megacity and prepare a presentation for the class)

Post-Reading/Listening (15-20 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

I´ll ask Ss to discuss these questions as a group: - If you had the opportunity to travel to one of the 3 cities we read about, which one would you choose to go? Why? - What would you like to do there? Afterwards, if we still haave time we´ll move on to page 72 ( Vocabulary and Speaking about A city and a small town). We´ll work on Ex. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.