Topic: Teen health tips
Focus: reading, speaking
Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will have developed their reading skills in the context of describing health problems and solutions/aids/remedies to them. Students will practice speaking for fluency in the context of describing health problems and solutions/aids/remedies to them.
Stage |
Procedure |
Aims |
Time and interaction |
Lead-in |
Students look at the titles and photos from the health magazine. They predict what each article is about. |
To engage the students into the context of the lesson |
2 mins |
Reading for gist |
Students quickly read the articles to find what problems and solutions/aids/remedies to them are mentioned. |
To read the text quickly for general comprehension |
5 mins T - SS |
Reading for detail |
Students need to find what article (A, B or C) tells about statements in exercise 2. |
To read the text for deeper comprehension |
8 mins T- S SSS |
Reading for specific information + target vocabulary clarification |
Ask SS to look through the texts again and match the underlined words with definitions (slide) Pair check WCFB |
To read the text quickly for the information connected with the target vocabulary, to clarify the vocabulary |
7 mins T-SS SSS |
Productive follow-up |
Ask students whether they consider RICE method useful and what is their opinion about advice concerning suntan. Ask them whether they know any other traditional remedies like mentioned in soup in the text. |
To provide students with an opportunity to speak for fluency |
7 mins T- S SSS |
Content feedback |
Invite SS to present their traditional remedies. |
To sum up the discussion |
3 mins S-SSS |
Language feedback |
Write samples of good language on the WB. If possible, use sentences with gaps to involve all the students |
To upgrade the students’ language use |
2 mins T- SSS |