Reading

Topic:

Chocolate

Reading Lesson Plan

Instructor: Yvonne	Level: Intermediate	Students: # in current class	Length: 50 Minutes

Materials:

ppt(question), worksheets, text sheets, A4 sheets.

Aims:

Main Aims:

Students will be able to understand the context.

Students will be able to give a suggestion.

Language Skills:

Reading:  Students should read the passage and questions on the worksheets.

Listening:  Students should listen to what other students’ speaking.

Speaking:  Students should share their ideas.

Writing:  Students should write a letter and some answers.

Language Systems:

Grammar : ‘should, better to, must’ will be used for suggestion

Phonology: practice past tense pronunciation such as -ed.

Lexis: addiction, addicted

Function: asking, answering, expressing likes/dislikes, and discussing

Discourse: having a conversation about the reading passage

Assumptions:

Ss are enough high level students to read and understand the passage

Anticipated Errors and Solutions:

Ss might not know the word ‘addiction’ so T cannot elicit. Let them understand the meaning of the word.

The writing work might be difficult to gather opinions. Help them to have enough time to discuss.

References:

www.onestopenglish.com

Pre-Task (Lead-In)
Materials: ppt
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
5 mins	whole class	To draw Ss’ attention Have a conversation about chocolate. speak out their thinking	Show Ss questions on ppt.

Task Preparation
Materials: ppt
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
10 mins 5 mins	pair work whole class	To relate topics to students’ lives. Have a discussion on some problems of eating chocolate. Guess what will be in the blanks.	Eliciting ‘addicted’ and ‘addiction’

Task Realization
Materials: worksheets and text sheets
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
15 min	pair work	To understand what they read and make sure that. Read the text and do the worksheet as a pair. There are T/F questions, summarizing questions etc	After reading the text, let them start to work from No.2 as a pair.

Post-Task
Materials: A4 sheets
Time	Set Up	Student Activity	Teacher Talk
15 mins	group work/ whole class	To link reading to other activities (speaking and writing) Share their ideas and write a letter back to Cheryl. Give her a suggestion. Read each other’s letters and choose which suggestion is better for her.	Make them talk to each other.