Amir Hossein Amir Hossein

Lost weekend (exciting or boring)
Pre intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students are going to learn some new vocabularies (adjectives) mostly ending with -ed and -ing. They will focus on comprehending the text.

Materials

Abc American English File Students Book
Abc Pictures

Main Aims

  • To provide detailed reading practice using a text about Lost weekend in the context of Survey on how people describe their weekend

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification of Sate of being qualities in the context of A holiday or a weekend

Procedure

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

The teacher starts talking about his last weekend and his experience using adjectives ending with -ed and -ing. He wants the students to describe the quality of their weekend.

Pre-Reading/Listening (12-15 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

I start to teach the students some key vocabularies of the text using some pictures to help them learn better. The students are going to match some pictures with words that describe them correctly and talk about them. Then they are going to check their answers in pairs and at the end with the whole class.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (1-2 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

The students are going to answer the question : Do people lie about their weekend or not? they are given about 2 minutes to read the first paragraph and share their answer with the class.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

The students are going to read the text deeper and answer some multiple choices questions related to the text. They will check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class.

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

The students are going to be divided into groups of 3 and discuss that if they had an exciting or a boring week and why?

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