Gossip might be good for you
Intermediate, B2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide detailed reading practice using a text about Gossip in the context of Here's a secret: Gossip might be good for you
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide reading practice using a text about pros and cons of gossiping in the context of Here's a secret: Gossip might be good for you.
Procedure (31-42 minutes)
The teacher starts talking about a party where relatives got together and shared their information about other private life and behavior in family. It comes to the main topic which is Gossip. She wants the students to talk about their opinions and their feelings toward gossiping.
In this stage the teacher is going to to teach students some Key vocabularies of the text using some pictures to help them learn better. The students are going to guess the action of the pictures to notice the specific vocab. The teacher will help them by explanation and synonym of the vocabs. Finally the teacher write the key words with their part of speech on the board
The students are going to answer the question: What does the professor McAndrew think about Gossiping? The teacher assigns each paragraph of context to one of the students and asks them give a summary of it in the form of an answer to the question after 2 minutes and share it with the class.
The Students are going to read the text deeper and answer some True or False questions related to the text. They will check the answer in pairs and then with whole class.
The students are going to be divided into groups of 4 and answer the questions: 1, Are the men more gossipers or woman? 2, Is it true that the way men and women gossip is different? why?