Adult General Intermediate, (HW,IM,U1,C3 )

Lesson Duration: 50min # students

Lesson Aim: Reviewing personal information, reading for gist
Student details: Age (s): Level:
Date: Class Room

Time Student activity Teacher activity

Engagement activity
15 Meeting at a party (Headway
Inter. TRB, p.9)
Student’s read their role card and
then mingle with other students
‘acting their roles’ trying to
maintain as long conversations as
possible.
Hand out character cards and have
students read their own card without
showing it to others. Have them mingle
and ask each other about themselves
until they have as much information
about everyone as they can have.
Review, asking what we’ve learnt about
each of the characters.

Presentation stage
5 Topics in a text 1) Run through topics and define them,
1) Define topics and assign items then match them with items in column b
to them.

Study stage Hand out SB p.10-11 and have students

Reading for gist (Headway Inter.
SB, p.10-11)
10 Read the text quickly, individually
and add sub-headings from the
topics previously defined
read quickly, individually and add sub-
headings from the topics previously
defined. Then share these sub-headings
around the group.

Time Student activity Teacher activity

Practice Stage 2) Have students, one at a time read
15 Reading Questions Practice the text aloud and write down answers.
 (Headway Inter. SB, p.10-11)
2) Read text aloud and write
down answers.

Warm down/follow up 4) ask group discussion questions

5 Wonders of the modern world
4) group discussion questions Lead brainstorming other modern
inventions we couldn’t live without, do
Brainstorm other modern they all agree?
inventions we couldn’t live
without.

Sources of materials used: Headway Intermediate Teacher’s Resource Book,

Materials:

- Character cards copied and cut out - Headway Inter. TRB, p.9

- Copies of Headway Inter. SB, p.10-11