Writing
Upper-intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of this lesson learners will be able to write a defend essay in the context of life expectancy.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide detailed reading practice using a text about Health in the context of Contrasting the importance of health care services.
Procedure (17-25 minutes)
1- Teacher starts the session by grouping the students (3-4 per group), then the teacher displays 2 pictures of an old man and a woman and ask students to guess who will die first. 2- Students take two minutes to discuss their answers and give reasons. 3-Teacher provides content feedback by asking some of the students to report their friends answers.
1-Teacher relates this task with the previous lead-in: let's answer your question using statistics. 2-Teacher sets the instructions clearly: as a team read the table and find four factors that affect life expectancy. 3- Teacher distributes handouts from the book, page 138. 4- T gives content feedback 5- T sets the instructions for the new exercise: now fill the table with the factors you found.
1-Teacher displays the passage ex:11 on page 146 and asks students to read and give the main idea. 2-Students read, share their answers together and report back to the teacher, teacher highlights the contrasting ideas in the passage. 3-Students fill the table following the procedures as in the written example.
1-Teacher sets the task page 147 ex; 12.1 by giving the following set of instructions instructions: It's your turn to use the previous procedures to write an essay. 2-Students start writing, teacher stops them after the designated time is over. 3-Teacher asks students to swap paper and peer check while she monitors to collect points to be tackled in the collective mistakes correction.
1- In pairs choose the lesson's aim from the 3 statements provided by the teacher in the PPT.