Tp4. Receptive Skills : Reading
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice in reading for detail
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To provide spoken fluency practice by exploring the topic of the text further
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To provide practice in reading for gist (skimming)
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide writing practice
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To provide practice in inferring the meaning of new vocabulary
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To practice contextual guessing
Procedure (34-46 minutes)
Ask the Ss • How are you doing today? • Tell them my washing machine isn't working and I need to call the plumber. • Elicit meaning from Ss . drill pronunciation and write plumber and /ˈplʌmər/ on WB
• Group Ss into A and B • Give out the 2 pictures and ask them to discuss in their groups. "What do you think has happened?" Set a time limit of 3 mins. ICQ "How much time do you have?" • Have 2 Ss from each group tell the story to the other group. • Hand out the strips •Tell Ss they have to match words with their definition. 2 minutes for this task. •Ask the groups to compare their answers. •CCQ meaning "Midwife. Does she help with babies or with old people?" "Storm. Little rain or lots of rain?" " Roof. Top part of the house or bottom?" "Chaos. "Good or bad?" •Drill pronunciation and write words on WB
Read for Gist/Skimming. • Read both stories. Were you right? • Now put the stories away. Discuss in your group what can you remember about these things • ICQ “Who will you discuss with?“ • “Are you going to write the answers?” • Hands Ss the handouts about Kurt's story and Phillip's story • Read again to check what you remembered about these things * This time Ss read for detail • Discuss with the person next to you. "How do you think Kurt and Philip felt ? " ICQ Are you going to discuss with the whole group? • In the meantime, I post 3a matching pictures on WB
• Go back to your first seats •Ss come to the WB and match the sentences with the pictures. •CCQs for the 8 sentences e.g If there's a power cut, can I watch TV? •WC drilling • 3c . With your partner > Which problems do you think are most serious? 2 mins • 3e Individually . WRITE YOUR NAME ON YOUR PAPER. " Complete the sentences with the expressions from the WB or your own ideas" ICQs Is your name on your paper?Are you going to work with your partner? • Peer FB. Ss check each others' answers. Model the peer check with 2 students. • Sit together with the person who checked your paper.
Discuss with your partner. 4.1 3 minutes 4.2 2 minutes Put Ss in groups for 3