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Teaching Practice 2 - My Perfect Weekend
A1 level

Description

In this lesson, students read about and discuss what people do at weekends. The lesson starts with a brief lead-in about the weekend. This is followed by a matching exercise. The core of the lesson focuses on a reading exercise about how two celebrities spend their weekends. Students read the text and then answer some questions based on the reading. The students then do a listening activity where they have to guess the names of their peers based on weekend activities read aloud in class.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about weekend activities
  • To provide detailed and inference reading practice using a text about a perfect weekend

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice of the simple present tense in the context of weekend activities

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (2-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Brief lead-in where teacher asks students about their weekend plans.

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

Do a matching exercise (1) with the students focusing on common V+N/Adv collocations. Make them work in pairs. Play the activity's audio clip so that they can check their answers. Do choral drills for each sentence to check proper pronunciation.

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

Hand out the text about Jamie Cullum and Shilpa Shetty. Obscure the entirety of the main text by folding the handout so that only the picture of each celebrity and the summary is available. Have two students read out the summaries. Ask students what they have understood from the summary as far as what the celebrities do for a living and what they like doing at weekends. Check whether they have understood the relevant vocabulary in the text. Do choral drills on correct pronunciation if necessary.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Divide the students into two groups, A and B. Have group A read about Jamie Cullum and group B ready about Shilpa Shetty. Following the reading session, ask the groups to answer the questions in Activity 4 in the handout. Finally, break up the groups and pair students from group A and B together. The students will now compare their answers to see which activities are enjoyed by both celebrities and what differences exist between the two. The teacher will monitor the students' interaction.

While-Reading/Listening #3 (Optional) (8-10 minutes) • To reinforce reading/comprehension skills used in the previous activity.

Distribute the Miranda Hart handouts (text and activity page) to students. Pair them together and ask them to read the text and complete the two activities. Go through each sentence and have each pair read aloud their answer; do a choral drill for each sentence to check pronunciation.

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

The students will each write down two things they like doing at weekends on a piece of paper. They will hand this paper to another student. The students will then read out from their pieces of paper and other students will guess as to whom the piece of paper belongs.

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