New lesson plan: Reading lesson

Seval Dogan

Reading lesson - Intermediate level

Reading lesson
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will practice their receptive skills with the main focus being on reading. Students will do various activities such as gist reading and reading for specific information to be able to talk about the importance of colours in business. The lesson starts with pre-teaching some target vocabulary by a matching activity. It is followed by a gist reading activity to put the cut-ups in order and then an activity to read for specific information. As a post-reading activity, students will practice speaking. Students will work in groups. Each group will be given a colourful card to create their own product by writing some notes and drawing their products on it. In the end, each group will introduce their product to other groups by speaking.

Materials

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Video, matching HOs, cut-ups, info gap HOs, colourful cards

Main Aims

To provide gist reading practice using a text about the importance of colours in business in the context of advertising
To provide reading for specific information practice using a text about the importance of colours in business in the context of advertising

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of advertising
To introduce vocabulary to build understanding of the text using some main words from the text

Procedure (48-60 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- T asks Ss what colours they like in general and tells them they are going to watch a video related to it. - Before showing the video, T writes three questions on the board :'what is the product in the video, what colour is it and why do you think people use these colours? ' so that students can discuss about the answers when the video is over. -T sets the context by showing a video (1.33 min.) -T asks students to discuss about the answers in pairs. -Whole class feedback is given

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

-T puts Ss in pairs and gives them matching HOs. -Ss will match the words with their meanings in pairs. -The answer key will be provided at the end of the activity. -Then each word will be drilled and the stress will be elicited from Ss.

While-Reading (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist reading tasks

-T puts Ss in pairs and gives them cut-ups taken from the text. -Ss will try to put the cut-ups in the correct order in pairs. -When finished, Ss will check others' work to see how they have done. -The answer key will be provided.

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

-T puts Ss in pairs and gives info gap HOs to each student. -Ss will read the text for specific information individually and then complete the gaps in the chart in pairs. -The answer key is given to each student and then Ss are given a few minutes to check their answers.

Post-Reading (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

-T puts Ss in groups of 3. Each group consists of 3 members (depending on the number of the students) -T demonstrates what Ss are supposed to do and gives an example of her own product. (a realia might be used as well) -Each group will create their own product. -Only one student from each group will be the secretary, so s/he will draw the picture and write the sentences on the card. Other members of the group will brainstorm and share their ideas as it is a team work. -When Ss finish, they will introduce their product to other groups by speaking about its colour, name, the feeling it gives etc. All members will communicate one another. -If there are any errors, T will give delayed error correction in the end.

Extra follow-up activity (3-5 minutes) • to provide more practice on vocabulary about the text

-If there is extra time, 'hot-seat' game will be played by using the vocabulary (7 words related to the context) that have been taught at the beginning of the lesson.