EPIC CORE

Class/ Level: second-year senior high school students with intermediate up to upper-intermediate level.

 

Lesson Topic:  Reading a folklore story

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Aims:

Students will read and understand a narrative text in meaningful way.

 

Objectives:

1. To introduce students to the reading topic through prediction.

2. To learn new vocabulary and elicit meaning using word synonyms.

3. To read for comprehension and find specific information through arranging pictures chronologically

4. To practice skimming or reading for general information.

5. To develop students’ critical thinking towards the reading text through group discussion.

6. To construct a paragraph related to the text.

 

Target Skills

Students will understand the skimming and scanning techniques in reading a narrative text. This lesson plan is integrated with other skills, such as speaking, listening, and writing.

 

Target Vocabulary: K-10 (Astonished, reel, enchanted, wretchedly, plea, trim, shivering)

 

Materials/ Tools:

Pictures, mind map, a reading text taken from English textbook, vocabulary cards, true and false statements, students worksheets, conversation line questions,

 

Duration: 2 x 45 minutes = 90 minutes

 

Potential problems:

Some activities involve communication and active participation; thus, students who are shy will find some activities hard to follow.

Class/ Level: Pre-intermediate; Junior high school

 

Objectives:

• Language: summarizing and comparing/contrasting

• Cultural: fables

 

Vocabulary:

• K2-distance, fox, peacefully, prove, ridiculous, steadily

• K3-meanwhile

• K4-swift

• K8-tortoise

• K1-K12: 1st Grade – 12th Grade

 

Materials: Text, paper, pen, board, markers

Time: 50 minutes

Potential Problems:

• Students’ familiarity with fables

• Identifying who, what, where, when, why can be tricky