Receptive Skills Lesson Plan

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Receptive Skills Lesson The material used for this receptive skills lesson is Good Deeds from Straight Forward Upper Intermediate by Kerr and Jones [1]. The written text, entitled Why are humans good is an academic-style text about altruistic behavior of humans and animals. The activities in this lesson have been designed for an upper-intermediate English class. Aims The aims of this lesson (in order of importance) are: For students to... • Language skills (detailed reading) receive practice in reading for detailed information by finding words and phrases in the text that mean to do good or exhibit altruistic behaviour. • Language skills (gist reading) receive practice of skimming for gist by choosing an appropriate summary for the written text. • Language skills (speaking) improve their conversational skills by discussing their own altruistic experiences with each other. Task Overview Setting the context The general theme for this lesson is altruistic human behavior. As a lead in, to get the students interested in the material, I would ask them to look at the title of the text, Why are humans good? In groups, they would need to imagine that a visitor from outer-space has asked them this question. How would you answer? The resulting group discussions would have the students forming ideas on positive human behavior, which correlates to the content of the text. This will act as a good transition into the subsequent reading tasks. Pre-teaching vocabulary The words altruism and evolution are essential for understanding the text, thus would need to be taught before proceeding with the reading tasks: Altruism /æltru z m/ (noun) [2]: Caring about the needs and happiness of other people more than your own. Alternate form: Altruistic (adj.) EEMs: Similar concepts include doing good, helping others, positive behavior, unselfish and acting with kindness. Evolution /ev
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