Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
… 17 January 2022 Upper-Intermediate (B2) 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Four skills - Reading
Lesson Topic:
“Hit the floor”
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…
1. …know new vocabulary. 1. …comprehension skills by answering questions regarding the
2. …work on a reading sub-skill like skimming, scanning, text.
‘reading for gist’ 2. …understanding about what is happening in a text while
reading it to generate questions.
3. …skills to read with a question in mind which requires to skim
and scan during reading.
4. …skills to break up a word in parts, which helps with
pronunciation.
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, Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. One major anticipated difficulty teaching Spanish students is 1. The level of the students which is upper-intermediate, will
the issue of false cognates, e.g., the word ‘delight’ in the text make it easier to adapt the issue of false cognates.
can be confused with the Spanish word ‘delito’ which means
‘crime.’
2. Another anticipated difficulty is that a student may not be a 2. The teacher will monitor the class during the reading of the
fluent or eager reader. text and will pick up should a student battle to get in time
through the text.
3. Some of the students will find it difficult to distinguish 3. Guidance will be given by the teacher to the students having
between the meanings of some words because Spanish trouble with this.
language has only five vowels and five diphthongs while the
English language has twelve vowels and eight diphthongs.
4. Students with greater vocabulary knowledge can dominate 4. It is important to foster universal participation in vocabulary
word-meaning instruction, causing other students to activities accountable for learning word meanings.
become passive.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
“Hit the floor”
On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine. She took a break from the slots for
dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But first she wanted to stash the quarters in her room. "I'll be right back, and
we'll go to eat," she told her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.
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… 17 January 2022 Upper-Intermediate (B2) 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Four skills - Reading
Lesson Topic:
“Hit the floor”
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…
1. …know new vocabulary. 1. …comprehension skills by answering questions regarding the
2. …work on a reading sub-skill like skimming, scanning, text.
‘reading for gist’ 2. …understanding about what is happening in a text while
reading it to generate questions.
3. …skills to read with a question in mind which requires to skim
and scan during reading.
4. …skills to break up a word in parts, which helps with
pronunciation.
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, Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. One major anticipated difficulty teaching Spanish students is 1. The level of the students which is upper-intermediate, will
the issue of false cognates, e.g., the word ‘delight’ in the text make it easier to adapt the issue of false cognates.
can be confused with the Spanish word ‘delito’ which means
‘crime.’
2. Another anticipated difficulty is that a student may not be a 2. The teacher will monitor the class during the reading of the
fluent or eager reader. text and will pick up should a student battle to get in time
through the text.
3. Some of the students will find it difficult to distinguish 3. Guidance will be given by the teacher to the students having
between the meanings of some words because Spanish trouble with this.
language has only five vowels and five diphthongs while the
English language has twelve vowels and eight diphthongs.
4. Students with greater vocabulary knowledge can dominate 4. It is important to foster universal participation in vocabulary
word-meaning instruction, causing other students to activities accountable for learning word meanings.
become passive.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
“Hit the floor”
On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine. She took a break from the slots for
dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But first she wanted to stash the quarters in her room. "I'll be right back, and
we'll go to eat," she told her husband and carried the coin-laden bucket to the elevator.
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