DEVELOPING READING SKILLS / A' CLASS1st Experimental Gymnasium Athens/ Teacher: Ioanna Koudouni
Class: A3
Number of students: 27
Mode of work: group work. (3 groups of 4 students and 3 groups of 5 students).
Coursebook: Think Teen!
Lesson: Reading text titled: ‘The Vikings’, Workbook, p. 44.
Date: 12 January 2011
LESSON PLAN
Pre-reading stage
Objectives: - to activate prior knowledge of learners.
- to motivate and prepare them for the reading text.
- creating a purpose for reading.
Procedure: students work in their groups and share their knowledge.
Interaction: - genuine communication.
- collaborative work.
Time: 5 min.
While-reading stage
The original text is divided into smaller portions. In this way the text and the activities are processed more easily.
Objectives: - to provide a visual representation (a map) of what is described in the text and to respond to the text in a non-linguistic way (activity 1).
- to involve the students in the visualisation of the short history of the Vikings (activity 1)
- to get learners to classify and somehow recreate the information in the text: information transfer activity (activities 2,3).
- To practice scanning for specific facts (activities 2, 3).
Procedure: group work.
Interaction: collaborative work. Students learn through their communication with their peers.
Time: 20 min.
Post-reading stage
Objectives: - to predict the ‘end’ of the Vikings’ history.
- To give learners the opportunity to use their knowledge from the text and their background knowledge to create something on their own.
- To give the opportunity to the students to learn more about the Vikings.
Procedure: group work.
Time: 10 min.
The Vikings worksheets.doc (40,5 kB) Worksheets of exercises used during the lesson.
The text can be downloaded from this webpage on the 'coursebook' page.