Reading can sometimes be a very solitary experience and many teachers prefer to get students to do it at home, but with the right kind of text and the right tasks, reading can be turned into a fun, collaborative and communicative experience. This lesson exploits an authentic text taken from a British Council 'UKinfocus' website and has a range of quite simple tasks that students work through in groups. There are also a range of suggestions for follow up tasks.
Note this is an old plan, so the webpage it links to is no longer available. You can print out the texts from the lesson plan below though.
Topic: Things to do in a city at night
Age: Teenage/adult
Level: Intermediate and above
Timing: 60-90 mins
Aims:
- To develop reading skills
- To develop the ability to work co-operatively in a group
- To develop the ability to deduce meaning from context
Plan components
Lesson Plan: guide for teacher on procedure including answers to tasks.
Download lesson plan 101k pdf
Worksheets: exercises which can be printed out for use in class. The worksheet contains:
- Pre-reading
- Jigsaw reading task
- Collaborative comprehension task
- Vocabulary development task
- Discussion task
Download worksheets 86k pdf
Audio - the complete text
Note: The audio is not essential for the lesson but you may like to use it in class as an optional element.
913Kb Mp3 - Newcastle
To download audio, right click on audio file in the Attachment below and save to your computer.
For more information about this topic you can visit these sites:
Nik Peachey, teacher, trainer and materials writer, British Council
The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format. Where indicated, there is also audio available to be downloaded. Audio is supplied in mp3 format. If you have difficulty downloading the materials see the download section of the Help page.
Copyright - please read
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| culture-newcastle-lesson-plan.pdf | 101.08 KB |
| culture-newcastle-worksheets.pdf | 85.88 KB |
| newcastle.mp3 | 912.75 KB |
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Comments
While this is a nice exercise in principle there is no example of the geordie accent and is very out of date now. The Tuxedo Royal has been gone for over a decade.