Date: //2014 Class Level: 2st Year Baccalaureate Class Period: 17h00 to 18h00 Title: Women at the Top

Lesson Type: Reading Unit: Women and Power Textbook: Ticket 2 English Objectives

School: El Khwarizmi Technical High School Class Size: 32 Lesson: Reading Comprehension

Teacher trainee: Almallam Boujemaa

By the end of this lesson, students should be able to do the following: Understand vocabulary from context Read for specific information Discuss the topic of women Read to understand the main ideas of each text

Timing 04min

Procedure Warm up Greeting students Pre-reading stage T: writes a quote about women on the blackboard T: M. Laugher King once said that a womans place is at home T: Do you agree or disagree? Ss: I disagree. Women nowadays do jobs men cant do Ss: women and men are equal T: what is the status of women in the past and what is their status in the present time? Ss: Women in the past used to Women in the present Do the housework They work out To be illiterate Literate To be obedient they are disobedient To enjoy traditional clothes They enjoy fashionable clothes They are not women leaders They are presidents and leaders they dont participate in politics They vote They were voiceless Their voices are heard They were not competent They are competent and qualified They were suppressed They have freedom- emancipated T: what positions women can occupy nowadays? Top positions Lower positions Minister Nurse Doctor Secretary Business woman Employee Lawyer teacher T: what about women writers? Do you know any women writer? T: are they at top position? Ss: Liela Abouzid, Fatima Elmarnissi T : what about women in sport ? Ss: Nawal Moutawakil , Nozha Bedouane

Techniques

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Teacher-student interaction activate Schema for the topic of women

12min

BB Chart filling eliciting answers

chart filling eliciting answers BB

Pre-teaching of vocabulary
Chairman, chairwoman, a woman activist T: what about women activists, are they top position or lower postion? T: do you know Bassima Haqqaoui? Ss; no T: she is a woman activist. She is the chairwoman of Justice and Development Party, and she demands a stronger public presence of women, more rights for female workers and peasant women as well as more family support. T: a woman activist defends a cause; Bassima Haqqaouis cause is womens write. She demands that women participate in politics, work in good conditions. T: can you name a woman activist in Morocco? Ss: Aicha chenna

10min

T: what is her cause? What does she defend? Ss: help single mothers and their children T : she is the chairwoman of the organization Feminine Solidarity T: who is the chairman of the UN? Ss: Ban Ki Moon T: a chairman is someone who chairs a meeting, a congress or an assembly. T: can you predict what is the text going to be about? Ss: women, women in the past, women in the present, successful womenwomen activists.

While Reading
First Reading Page 72 Complete the following chart with information from the four texts. Name Position/responsibility Nationality Achievements and/or awards Angela Chairwoman of her party Germany Chairs G8 Merkel Chancellor of Germany summit Nawal El Member of the Moutawakel International Olympic Committee Moroccan 1984s 400m hurdle winner First Muslim and African female Olympic Champion Noble Peace Prize Former Prime Minister of UK The only woman to have held the office of PM IN UK Longest serving British PM First woman to lead a major political Party in UK

Chart filling

10min

HANDOUT

Shirin Ibadi Margret Tatcher

Lawyer- Judge Former Prime Minister of UK

Iranian British

06min

Second reading
Read the texts again and answer the following questions. a. Who is concerned with human right? b. Who was interested in politics? c. Who excelled in sport and served as a government official? d. Which women has attracted your attention most and why? e. Who has achieved the highest position? Answers a. Shrin Ibadi

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b. c. d. e.

Angela Merkel and Margaret Thatcher Nawal El Moutawakel Open question to stimulate discussion Margaret Thatcher

08min

Third reading Group A State whether the following statements are true or false. 1. Merkel is the president of Germany( False: she is the Chancellor) 2. Nawal El Moutawakel was the Minister of Sport in 1997( False :She became the secretary of state for sport and youth) 3. Shirin Ebadi defended the rights of the Iranian people(False: she defended the rights of women and children in her country) 4. Thatcher was the leader of British Labour Party(False: she was the leader of conservative party) Group B Complete the following sentences. 1. Merkel was not only a chairwoman of her party, but she was also.(chancellor of Germany) 2. 1984 was the date when Nawal El Moutawakel( won the inaugural womens 400 m hurdles event) 3. Ebadi made campaigns to promote..( peaceful solutions to social problem) 4. As a chemist, Thatcher made a research(to help develop methods for preserving ice cream) Group C Find in the passage the synonyms or the opposites 1. To preside (paragraph 1) to chair 2. Designated (paragraph 2) appointed 3. Violent (paragraph 3) peaceful 4. Upgrade (paragraph 4) develop Students write the answers on the blackboard and copy them on their copybook- reading comprehension section. Post-reading o Follow up activity

Group work

Completion technique

06min

Ss look carefully at the graph, page 73, and discuss the questions. Who wins Oscars more? Men or women? Why do you think so? ro!ect work outside the classroom. Students make a research a"out a famous woman in Morocco or elsewhere and share their findings with their classmates in the ne#t session$ group of fi%e ss$ and each group conduct a research a"out a different woman.

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