Mohammad Farizadeh Mohammad Farizadeh

Reading
Pre-Intermediate level

Materials

Abc Whiteboard and markers
Abc Worksheets with exercises on past simple (puzzle)
Abc Student book

Main Aims

  • To provide gist and scan reading practice using a text about Success in the context of Successful people

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide lexical set of life journey in the context of successful people

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (4-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

# Draw Ss attention to the picture of their book (J.K. Rowing) and ask them what they know about her and why she is a successful person. # Ask Ss to talk about some other successful persons they know.

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

Pre- teaching vocabulary: # Write the verbs on the board one by one and try to elicit the meaning / give definition or synonyms # pronunciation: Drilling in the groups and then individually # Form: highlight stress and syllables of the words and their part of speech # ask them to complete "language target" part of their book. # Check Ss answers and provide them with the correct answer

While-Reading / Skim and scan (5-7 minutes) • Giving general understanding of the text

# Ask Ss to read the texts fast and find the vocabulary in the texts and check with their partners.

While-Reading / Detailed (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

# Ask Ss to read and complete the texts with past simple.

Wrap up (10-15 minutes) • Practice using the past simple in a creative and personal context.

# group and pair students and ask them to use the new vocabularies and past simple tense to talk about a successful person they know

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