Reading lesson plan

Stage

why

Sample activities

Pre

• Students didn’t choose the text so the teacher has to develop interest and desire to listen.

• Students need to know why they are going to listen and they should be helped with vocabulary.

• Look at pictures and talk about them;

• Make a list of possibilities/ideas/

suggestions;

• Read through questions to be answered while listening;

• Pre-teach vocabulary;

• Informal teacher talk and class discussion;

• Predict from the title/headline;

During

• Students need to know why they are listening.

• They need tasks that focus them and help them understand the text.

• Students need to develop different listening skills (listening for the gist and listening for specific details).

• Students need time to compare their results in pairs/groups.

• Listen and draw (a map, a room etc.);

• Answer the questions:

• Listen and put pictures/events etc. in order;

• Listen and find mistakes;

• Listen and check items in pictures;

• Listen and complete pictures/chart/form;

• Listen and mark statements as true/false;

Post

• Students need a chance to talk about the text and discuss related topics.

• Students need to develop other skills.

• They might also focus on the language in the text.

• Role-play;

• Projects;

• Continue the story or speculate on what happened before;

• Discuss the topic that came up in the text;

• Speculate about the people in the text;

• Summarize the story;

• Noticing tasks such as “find all the verbs in the past simple tense”