Sara Elelaimy Sara Elelaimy

The wildest dream
Grade 8 level

Description

In this lesson,students learn how to apply two reading skills:skimming and scanning based on a reading text .The lesson starts with explaining the difference between skimming and scanning .This is followed by a discussion about dreams and analysing the picture attached to the reading text to detect what the text about.Finally students are asked to read each paragraph in a reading text to answer questions using the two skills.

Materials

Abc Student book, handouts about skimmimg and scanning,an online activity.
Abc Flashcards

Main Aims

  • Students learn how to use skimmimg and scanning according to the questions.
  • students learn to analyse the title of a reading passage

Subsidiary Aims

  • To teach students the main elements of a paragraph to help them in writing.
  • To be able to get the answers from a text without reading all of it.

Procedure

Lead-in (10-15 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

I will explain the difference between skimming and scanning followed by answering some questions in a worksheet to promote the students' understanding.

Pre-Reading (13-15 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

I will show students a picture and they are asked to analyse it.While describing the picture,students will recognise the main topic which is dreams.Then students will be asked to describe dreams .Students will be asked to justify using the adj "wild" to describe the word "dream" although "wild" has a strong and fierce connotation.Then they are asked to look at the picture in their books to guess what it is about.

While-Reading1 (15-20 minutes) • To read quickly looking only for key points in the text.

Students will be asked to get the main idea of each paragraph separately and they will have only 5 minutes to do that.Then they will be asked to give a summary concentrating on the first and last sentences.Second,a peer student will be asked to comment on their summaries. Moreover,,I will introduce and explain any difficult words.

While-Reading 2 (15-20 minutes) • students practise scanning by answering the questions in the book.

Students are asked to look for details using keywords after reading the questions following the reading text.Then we discuss and the answers together.I will promote their understanding of the difference between skimming and scanning.Moreover,I will explain any difficult vocabulary that hinders students' understanding.

Post-Reading (8-10 minutes) • listening to improve pronunciation and putting specific words in context to remember them.

This is the production stage .Thus, students will be asked to listen to the text to check their understanding and they will be asked to use some of the new vocabulary in a context of their own.

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