David Norcross
TP 7 - Inoue Daisuke and Jonathan Ive Reading - Intermediate level
TP 7 - Inoue Daisuke and Jonathan Ive Reading
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist reading practice using a text about two socially influential inventors in the context of short, biographical articles.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of lexis about technological inventions in the context of articles about two inventors.
Procedure (41-49 minutes)
- Ask Ss about their experience with karaoke and iPods.
- Ss get into two groups. Each group gets three large cards, "a," "b," and "c." One person in each group is designated as the card holder. - Names of groups on the board, tallies underneath them. Powerpoint slides show multiple choice vocabulary questions. The first group to hold up the correct answer gets the point.
- Instruct Ss to find the best title for each paragraph. Give Ss in one group the Karaoke text, and the other group the iPod text. - Ss read for gist, and match the title to the correct paragraph. - Check with the others in the group.
- Assign each student a paragraph (or two, depending on group sizes). - Ask Ss to complete the summary for that paragraph, then share with the other members of the group.
- Ask the groups to summarize their articles for each other. - Put post-reading questions on the board, answer them as a group.
