Lesson Aims: Upper-intermediate (B2) of lesson
students
Enable students to practice 60 mins ⬧ PowerPoint presentation (Materials 1)
skimming skills for a brief 18 ⬧ Tennis balls
understanding and to scan for ⬧ Handouts (copy of reading text)
specific information within a Gap- fill activity (Materials 2)
text. ⬧ White board
To develop reading for
comprehension skills
Lesson Objectives:
Students will learn new
vocabulary with definitions
Students will use scanning, gist
reading and intensive reading
to answer questions and
complete a gap-fill exercise.
, Stage Aim Timing Inter- Teacher activity Student activity
action
1. Warmer To set context for the 1 T-C ⬧ Greet students. Tell them to sit in ⬧ Students sit down in their groups and
lesson and generate groups of 6 listen to introduction
interest.
1 T-C grps ⬧ Tell students we are going to read an
article. Project the headline on the
screen with pictures in a flow diagram
4 T-C grps ⬧ Give instruction for group work: ⬧ In their groups they have 3 mins to
1. What jobs did the parents do by discuss the questions among themselves
looking at the pictures?
2. Do you think that is considered
nowadays as a “normal” job that
people tend to do?
3. Do you think it is fun to grow up as a
child traveling around with a circus?
⬧ Monitor as they work
2. Introduce To familiarise students 1 T-C grps ⬧ Give instruction for group work
and with vocabulary they will
practise read in the text. 3 T ⬧ Display pictures and definition of the ⬧ Students match the pictures with the
further words on the board (Matching definitions given.
vocabulary activity):
- Mining (noun)
- Protest (noun)
- Convoy (noun)
3 T-C ⬧ Introduce the vocabulary for the ⬧ Students note down new items in their