What happened-Why so clumsy?
B1+ Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice in Reading for gist and Reading in Detail through a text.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of new vocabulary and to enable the students to have a clear understanding of the text.
Procedure (36-45 minutes)
-Ask the Ss if they take a lot of 'risks'. -Talk about what kind of risks and why. -F/B
-Give the Ss the HO on the quiz to answer. -split the Ss up into pairs and ask write on the board the following Qs. -Do you agree with what the answers say about you? & Think about people who take risks. Do they have a lot of accidents? -Peer check -F/B
-Ask the Ss to read the text quickly and underline the unknown vocabulary. -Elicit -Ask the Ss to read the sentences where the vocabulary is and try to understand its meaning. -Divide the Ss into pairs and ask them to compare their ideas of what they understand. -Monitoring -F/B
-Ask the Ss to read the artice again slowly. -Give the Ss Ex.3 and ask them to read & answer the questions. -In pairs ask them to discuss their answers. -Have the Ss read the article again to check their answers.
-Write on the board Ex.3b's Q. & have the Ss discuss their answers in pairs -Monitoring -Peer Check F/b