Teacher: Abderrazzak HASSAR Class level: Common Core

Textbook: Outlook Class size:

Unit 2: What & How I Learn Lesson type: Reading comprehension
Title: My New School School: El Ijtihad High School
Class period: 1 hour Date:

 General Objective(s): Students should be able to read and comprehend the text (letter).
 Students Performance Objectives (SPO): By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
 Develop some reading sub-skills: theme discussion, previewing, guessing
and skimming;
 Read and understand the text (letter) by successfully answering the
comprehension questions/activities;
 Recognize words’ reference and word opposition in the text (letter);
 Write about their school and school subjects (difficult/easy).
 Material(s): Textbook and BB.

Time Procedures Techniques

6 Warm-up
minutes - T greets SS. Greeting
- T reviews vocabulary related to the unit.
Typewriter
Library/laboratory Brainstorming
Principal
School

schoolyard office Semantic map

Classroom
Motivation Activity:
-T asks SS:
T: What is your school name?
S1: El Ijtihad High School. Setting the scene
T: Okay, good. What do you study? School subject?
S1: Math, Physics, English…etc Q/A
T: Great. Are they difficult or easy…. ?
SS: it depends……
8 Pre-reading stage
minutes 1.Preteaching vocabulary related to the text:
- Assignments: a place where there are trees, plants… Use
- Exciting: (adj.) = sth that is interesting of context
2. Focus Activity
Previewing the title of the text + predicting:
-T writes the title of the text on the BB and then asks SS to guess what it is Previewing
going to be about. +
-T elicits answers from SS and writes them on the BB. Guessing
 School subjects
 Exams/ homework Eliciting answers
 Teachers
 Classmates …..etc
 While reading stage
Reading comprehension activities: Reading silently
First reading: and checking
-T asks SS to read the letter (within 3 minutes) and check whether their first predictions
predictions are correct or not.
Second reading:
-T asks SS to read the text again (skim the letter) and get its main idea within Skimming
1 minute.
-T asks SS to answer either by true or false and justify within 3 minutes:
a. There are only girls in Veronica’s school.
22 b. She only studies literature.
minutes c. After school, she goes straight home.
d. She loves using computers. False/true items
Keys:
a. True. “The Cairo High School for Girls”.
b. False. She studies maths, physics, literature, Arabic…..
c. False. She goes to the computer club.
d. True. “I know now how to use the internet; It’s really exciting.”
-T asks SS to answer the following questions:
a. Does Veronica have any homework to do?
b. Which subjects does she find difficult? W/H Questions
c. Who helps her when she has problems?
Keys:
a. Yes she does. She has reading assignments.
b. Philosophy/Arabic texts
c. Her friends; girls in the school.
-T asks SS to look for what the following words (within 2 minute) refer to:
Word reference
a. They (line 6)
Keys: 1.Girls.
-T asks SS to look for words/expressions (within 2 minutes) that almost mean
the same as:
a. Relaxed/at ease Word synonymy
b. hard
Keys: a. comfortable; b. Hard.
24 Post reading stage
mints - Writing as a subservient skill:
- T asks SS to write a letter about their new school within 10 minutes. Composition
-T writes a sample on the BB.
-T asks SS to copy the lesson.

Prepared by:

Abderrazzak HASSAR