8/11/2019 Reading Comprehension Unit 1
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Date: /09/2014 School: Al khawarizmi High School
Class Level: 1st Year Baccalaureate Class Size:
Class Period: 50 min Lesson: Reading Comprehension
Textbook: Ticket To English Teacher: Almallam Boujemaa
Unit: 1
Title: Education
Lesson Type: Reading Integrated Skills: Speaking
OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1.
Survey a text for the main idea.
2.
Read and specify the sentence that best summarise the main ideas
of each paragraph
3. Make inferences.
4.
Show general understanding of the text.
Time Procedure Techniques
03min
12min
04min
05min
05min
08min
Warm Up
Greeting students.
Set up the scene and lead in to the main topic.
Prereading Stage
Motivation activity
Students discuss the following questions with their
partners:
1. Who are better at languages, boys or girls?
2. Who are better at mathematics and physics?
3.
Who are more disciplined in school?4.
Who participates more in classroom activities?
preteaching of vocabulary
grasp, gender stereotypes, nationwide, awarded, trend,
outperform
While Reading Stage
First Reading
students read the text and find the writers answer to the
following question:
DO GIRLS DO BETTER THAN BOYS AT SCHOOL?
Second Reading
Which sentence summarises best the ideas in each paragraph?
Paragraph 1: something was going wrong for girls, anyway.
Paragraph 2: In fact, these days, 57% of university students are
women.Paragraph 3: Younger boys and girls also show differences in
academic
performance, in one direction: girls do better than boys.
Third Reading
Decide if these sentences are true or false, and justify your
choice.
According to the writer,
a) In the past, boys did better than girls especially at Math
and Science.
b)
At university there more boys than girls nowadays.
c)
In 4th
, 8th
, and 12th
grades, girls do better than boys at writing and reading.
Answers:
1.True
2. False: These days, 57% of university students are women.3.
True
Fourth Reading
students answer the following questions:
activating the
schema
BrainstormingDiscussion
context
BB
skimming
BB
