Level : 3rd Stream: Lit / Philo Teacher : Senouci Younes

Unit : Exploring the past Sequence : reading and writing Date : November 2022
competency : interact – interpret –
Course name : expressing purpose Time Allowance : 1 hr
produce

Objective : by the end of this lesson, my learners will be able to:

❑ Skim and match given ideas with the content of a text

Lesson Plan
Time Stage Activities (input and output) Aim

* the teacher greets his learners and welcomes them.

- then he asks them to open their books on page 36.
Brainstorm
Before reading their ideas
15 mins Warm-up *the teacher asks his learners the following questions : about
1. What does each of the pictures represent? Ancient
2. Which one of them shows one ofthe Seven Wonders of the World? Egyptian
3. Which Ancient Egyptian king have u heard of? civilization
4. Which stories in your culture are associated with Egypt? Say a few words
about them.
Possible answers :
1. 1) . Picture One represents one of the three pyramids at Giza, the
Great Pyramid of Khufu /Cheops near Cairo. (230 m/755 ft square
and 147m/481 ft high. The three pyramids at Giza were considered
one of the Seven Wonders of the World in Antiquity (the Pyramids
of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis at
Ephesus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Mausoleum at
Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharaohs
(lighthouse) at Alexandria)- (Honorary Candidate since July 2007)
2) Picture Two represents a mummy of an Egyptian Pharaoh and
Anubis
3) Picture Three: Mask of the Pharaoh
2. Picture 1 which represent the great pyramid of Khufu
3. One of the most famous was Tutankhamen (whose tomb was
discovered near Luxor in 1922)
4. The story of Sidna Musa (Moses) Moses, the Story of Sidna Yucef
(Joseph)

10 mins Presentation As you read Skim

through a
* The teacher reads, explains, and discuss with learners Coping box, text (read
textbook p.37. for gist)
Dictionary :
Skim : to move quickly just above a surface without touching it:
The birds skimmed (across/along/over) the tops of the waves.
 Gist: the main or general meaning of a piece of writing, a speech or a
conversation
Task 1, textbook p.37:
① Skim through the introduction and the conclusion of the text below and
pick
out four to six key words.
* The teacher should encourage learners to do this as quickly as possible.
Employ the
ANSWERS/KEY:
15 mins ideas they
A. in the introduction: civilization - rose - Egypt decline - fall
have
B. in the conclusion: decline, fall
acquired
while
Task 2, textbook p.39:
Practice skimming /
② Use the key words you have picked out in task 1 (page 37) to give a title reading for
to the text gist to
ANSWERS/KEY: formulate a
5 mins The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egyptian Civilization general idea
of the
text.

Production Task 3, textbook p.39:

③ Now, skim through the whole text and match ideas A-G below with their
corresponding paragraphs. One of the ideas is irrelevant. Write paragraph Skim and
numbers in the boxes. match given
ideas with
ANSWERS/KEY:
15 mins the content
of a text
A. The Pharaoh’ government §2
B. The importance of the Pharaoh for the unity of Egypt §4
C. The unification of ancient Egypt §1
D. Patriotic feelings in ancient Egypt §3
E. The reason for the ruin of Egyptian economy §6
F. The idea behind the building of the pyramids §5
G. Tutankhamun’s treasure Irrelevant idea