This lesson is designed for teens (A2/B1). It's a reading and speaking lesson, focusing on prediction, skimming and scanning as reading sub-skills and debating for speaking.
It took me a lot of time to find an authentic and up-to-date text(s) that would appeal to teens and to adapt it as well, but I am satisfied and feel it can be a good lesson.
I uploaded the original text to a profiler and then adapted it and compared the two results (not that much difference though) which shows it's not that accurate, but was useful to find higher level words easily and decide whether to change them or pre-teach them !
Assignment is attached and materials can be found here :https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_XDwAmFNXJnBUgXG2ey8zPNPAL6iQlg5/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yNkxKiGWBQxdYjiXKbTAFL7l_KmSHzCf/view?usp=sharing
Hi Ayat,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing the content for your materials and the lesson plan. Once again you’ve chosen a really motivating topic. All the students will have plenty to say about this, I’m sure. The Guardian article is a great choice for an authentic text and the photos work well too – very engaging.
I’ve looked at the detailed Lesson plan and you have clearly spent time and consideration thinking up a very comprehension set of tasks for students. The sequence is logical and there are lots of skills being developed and plenty of support for the students as well as scope for creativity.
It would be interesting to see the actual ‘materials’. What I mean by this is a worksheet that students receive with the instructions they need to follow. On the worksheet I’d expect to see numbered instructions and examples of the support you included in the lesson plan – something like the page in a student’s course book. Of course, worksheets aren’t always necessary but I think that in this case some actual ‘wrap around materials’ might be of use for students in terms of support and as a reference.