Lesson Plan for Grade 6. Disasters

Plan

Grade: 6A

Duration: 80 mins

Date: 17.02.2011

Theme: Disasters. TSUNAMI

Aim: to develop basic reading skills – skimming and scanning

Objectives:

• to revise Past Simple Passive

• to activate the DISASTERS vocabulary

• to read the text applying skimming and scanning techniques

• to encourage students to speak on the topic

Outcomes: by the end of the lesson students will expand their “Disasters vocabulary” and improve their reading skills

Equipment: IT board, whiteboard, handouts, Student’s Books, Work Books

Procedure

1. Homework checks

WB Unit 9

2. Speaking activity (B-s read their questions)

p. 122 SB

3. Pre-Reading (Activating schemata – predicting the content of the text)

The Teacher gives each student a card with a letter from A to E (Handout 1)

Then all the students close their eyes. Only A-s open their eyes. The Teacher shows them the word “WAVE”. Then only B-s open their eyes – “JAPAN”. C-s – “The Pacific ocean”. D – “EARTHQUAKE”. “E” - “30”. (Handout 2) Then the Ss are split into 2 groups with A-E in each group.

They discuss what the text might be about. the teacher goes around and monitors, meanwhile providing them with some extra words: natural disaster, dangerous, coast, to protect

4. 1^st reading (skim reading for general information)

Ss read the text for the first time and discuss whether their predictions were correct. Then they answer the Qs in ex. 5a, p. 64 (SB) T-Class

5. 2^nd reading (scanning for specific information)

Ss read the text for the second time and do ex-s 5b, 5c and 5d, p.64 (SB)

Peer-checking

Group checking

6. Activity for students on the topic “Tsunami” (to prepare a news report using the information from the text and vocabulary they have already learned)

Situation: You are working for a TV channel as news reporters. The giant wave – tsunami – covered and destroyed a small town. You have to prepare a short news report about this situation using the information from the text you have read and the words: tsunami, earthquake, destroy, injured, protect, damage, enormous, destruction and any other word from your vocabularies on the topic “DISASTERS”. (Handout 3)

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7. Home Assignment

Learn new words. Prepare a project: Disasters.

8. Assessment

1) Have I achieved the lesson aim?

2) What went wrong?

3) Did I manage to do all the activities?

4) What should I change?