Lesson topic

Trainee teacher : Gamani Ismail lesson title : Food for Thought

Unit: 5 Level : Common Core

Skills : Reading comprehension Class period : 120 minutes

Material : Vas, BB , chalk ,textbook Class size : 30

Date : 11 –3 – 14 Textbook : Outlook

Objectives

By the end of this lesson , students will be able to :

- Read for specific and general ideas.

- Acquire new vocabulary .

- Show general understanding of the text by successfully accomplishing the reading task.

- Use the newly acquired vocabulary to speak and write about the theme of the text

Time Procedures Techniques

5min

30min

15 min

T :greets students

T : what’s the weather like today

Ss : it’s sunny

Pre- teaching a new structure ( quantifiers)

Pre -teaching new lexical items

T : Today we are going to study a text about food.

T : What do you know about eating habits in the west ?

Ss : they eat lots of food which is high in calories ( different answers)

Pre-reading questions

T : what are the words that are linked with the word health ? ( BB)

Students ‘answers are witten on the BB

While- reading stage

Warm up

Review

VAs and contextualization

Motivation activity

Focus activity

10 min

15 min

15min

20min

The first silent reading :

Ss : read the text on page 62 and find whether some of their answers are included in the text or not (time limit : )

T : corrects and discusses Ss’ guesses.

The second silent reading :

Ss : read the text and and tick the statement they think is correct (time limit : )

1)The japanese eat too much food

2)The japanese eat healthy food

3)The japanese suffer form cholesterol

4)The japanese do not eat as many vegetables as the British

T :asks ss to compare their answers with their neighbors.

T : corrects with the whole class.

The third silent reading :

T : asks Ss to read the text again and fill in the following chart : (time limit : )

People in rich countries eat : People in poor countries eat :

They eat many calories

They eat much animal fat

They eat many sweet things

They eat little fibre

They eat few calories

They eat few animal products, vitamins and minerals

They eat many cereals.

Post-reading stage

T : uses wh-questions to check Ss’ comprehension ( explicit and implicit questions )

T : what are the food that can make people live longer ?

Ss : fish ; seafood and vegetables

T : why do European people have heart disease ?

Ss : because they don ‘t eat enough fish and vegetables.

Exploitation stage

Students are asked to write a paragraph about the food that they usually eat

True and false questions

Chart filling

Comprehension questions

Life- experience

questions