Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Cassie Shear 10/16/2022 Upper- Intermediate 60 Minutes
Lesson Type:
The Four skills- Reading
Lesson Topic:
Social Media
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Understand the meaning of the piece of writing given by the Demonstrating their understanding of the text by completing
teacher and be better able to understand it through reading certain activities that will better their reading skills so that they
techniques such as ‘reading for gist’, ‘previewing’, ‘reading for can extract certain parts of information from the text that is given.
detail’, etc. Showing that the students understand the task at hand.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. The students may want to pull out their phone and look up 1. To either incorporate an activity that uses their phone or to
the meaning of a certain word that they don’t understand. give them activities that will help them to understand the
overall text and not just focus on the words that they do
2. Some of the students may become disheartened that they not understand.
don’t understand the whole text word for word.
2. The teacher will make it clear that the aim of the lesson and
3. The sentence structure in Spanish is different to that in the activities within the lesson are to improve their skills on
English as in word order does not matter as much in Spanish extracting certain information and not understanding the
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, sentences. whole text word for word.
3. The way to help with this is to make clear that this lesson is
about improving the students reading skills so that they are
better able to take specific pieces of information and not to
understand every single part of the text.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
Is social media bad for you?
Three billion people, around 40% of the world’s population, use online social media – and were spending an average of two hours
every day sharing, liking, tweeting and updating on these platforms, according to some reports. That breaks down to around half a
million tweets and Snapchat photos shared every minute.
With social media playing such a big part in our lives, could we be sacrificing our mental health and well-being as well as our time?
What does the evidence actually suggest?
Facebook responds to mental well-being claims
Is it time to rethink how we use social media? An introduction to our #LikeMinded season
Since social media is relatively new to us, conclusive findings are limited. The research that does exist mainly relies on self-reporting,
which can often be flawed, and the majority of studies focus on Facebook. That said, this is a fast-growing area of research, and clues
are beginning to emerge. BBC Future reviewed the findings of some of the science so far:
STRESS
People use social media to vent about everything from customer service to politics, but the downside to this is that our feeds often
resemble an endless stream of stress. In 2015, researchers at the Pew Research Center based in Washington DC sought to find out if
social media induces more stress than it relieves.
In the survey of 1,800 people, women reported being more stressed than men. Twitter was found to be a “significant contributor”
because it increased their awareness of other people’s stress.
But Twitter also acted as a coping mechanism – and the more women used it, the less stressed they were. The same effect wasn’t
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Cassie Shear 10/16/2022 Upper- Intermediate 60 Minutes
Lesson Type:
The Four skills- Reading
Lesson Topic:
Social Media
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
Understand the meaning of the piece of writing given by the Demonstrating their understanding of the text by completing
teacher and be better able to understand it through reading certain activities that will better their reading skills so that they
techniques such as ‘reading for gist’, ‘previewing’, ‘reading for can extract certain parts of information from the text that is given.
detail’, etc. Showing that the students understand the task at hand.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. The students may want to pull out their phone and look up 1. To either incorporate an activity that uses their phone or to
the meaning of a certain word that they don’t understand. give them activities that will help them to understand the
overall text and not just focus on the words that they do
2. Some of the students may become disheartened that they not understand.
don’t understand the whole text word for word.
2. The teacher will make it clear that the aim of the lesson and
3. The sentence structure in Spanish is different to that in the activities within the lesson are to improve their skills on
English as in word order does not matter as much in Spanish extracting certain information and not understanding the
1 i-to-i LOVE TEFL Lesson Plan
, sentences. whole text word for word.
3. The way to help with this is to make clear that this lesson is
about improving the students reading skills so that they are
better able to take specific pieces of information and not to
understand every single part of the text.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
Is social media bad for you?
Three billion people, around 40% of the world’s population, use online social media – and were spending an average of two hours
every day sharing, liking, tweeting and updating on these platforms, according to some reports. That breaks down to around half a
million tweets and Snapchat photos shared every minute.
With social media playing such a big part in our lives, could we be sacrificing our mental health and well-being as well as our time?
What does the evidence actually suggest?
Facebook responds to mental well-being claims
Is it time to rethink how we use social media? An introduction to our #LikeMinded season
Since social media is relatively new to us, conclusive findings are limited. The research that does exist mainly relies on self-reporting,
which can often be flawed, and the majority of studies focus on Facebook. That said, this is a fast-growing area of research, and clues
are beginning to emerge. BBC Future reviewed the findings of some of the science so far:
STRESS
People use social media to vent about everything from customer service to politics, but the downside to this is that our feeds often
resemble an endless stream of stress. In 2015, researchers at the Pew Research Center based in Washington DC sought to find out if
social media induces more stress than it relieves.
In the survey of 1,800 people, women reported being more stressed than men. Twitter was found to be a “significant contributor”
because it increased their awareness of other people’s stress.
But Twitter also acted as a coping mechanism – and the more women used it, the less stressed they were. The same effect wasn’t
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