UNIT 5: HEROES

Reading 1

1. Introduction
a. Target level: B1
b. Students' age: 13 - 14 years old
c. Learning outcomes:
After this lesson, students will be able to:
- Identify keywords to do T/F exercise in a reading text about raising a charity project.
- Generalize the main ideas of a reading text about raising a charity project.
- Apply reading information to reflect personal perspective on the topic of charity.

2. Analyzing and Evaluating

Activities Quick Evaluation Adaptation

ADDING Lead-in
Activity 1:
- T asks Ss 3 questions respectively:
+ Do you usually help other people?
+ Who did you help?
+ How did you help them?
- T invites several Ss to give their answers.
- T leads to the lesson’s topic about a woman who
loves helping other people.

ADDING Pre-reading
Activity 2: Look at the picture above the reading
text, then answer these questions:
+ Who did the woman help?
+ How did she help them?
- T asks Ss to look at the picture at the beginning
of the reading text.
- T allows Ss to orally discuss given questions.
- T invites Ss to express their opinion.

REORDERING: T takes Exercise 9 in Students

Books as the first activity in the While-reading
stage in order to get Ss to familiarize themselves
with the text before attempting more difficult
questions in following activities.
SIMPLIFYING the instruction:
Activity 3: Read and answer the questions with
one phrase:
1) How long was Felicity at the Street
Academy School?
2) Why is the Street Academy School
different to other schools in Ghana?

Exercise 6: Read and listen. Choose
the best title for the text
Exercise 7: Read the text again. Are
the sentences true or false? Correct
the false sentences
3) What facilities does the new school have?
4) How much money does she want to raise in
total?
5) What shape are new windows?
- T confirms Ss’ answer.
- This activity is considered to
be a reading for main ideas
activity. Therefore, this
activity should be put at the
end of the while-reading stage
in order to let Ss summarize
and generalize the main idea
of the reading text.
- The instructions should also
be simplified, as there is no
need for listening at this
stage.
- The activity is considered to SIMPLIFYING:
be a reading for details Activity 4: Read the text again. Are the sentences
activity, which let Ss reread true or false?
the text and decide whether
the statements are true or
 false.
- The statements are good as
they covered most of the main
points of the reading text;
- T asks Ss to look at the statements in activity 4
however, the instructions are
- T asks Ss how they should do with this type of
not appropriate and
exercise (true/false)
confusing. Ss may not know
- T elicits the steps for Ss to complete true/false
how to correct the statements.
exercise (identify the keywords that carry the
meaning of the statement - read the text again -
decide whether the statement is true or false)
- T asks Ss to complete activity 4
- T corrects Ss’ answers
 REORDERING: T takes the Exercise 6 here to
be the reading for main ideas activity.
MODIFYING
Activity 5: After reading the text, choose the best
title:

- T asks Ss to look at the three titles in activity 5

- T elicits Ss how to decide on the most suitable
title for the text (the one that covers the main
topic of the text)
- T asks Ss to complete the activity 5
- T corrects Ss’ answers
- T confirms Ss’ answers in the activity 2

Exercise 8: Which six things did - The instruction is not clear DELETING
Felicity do to raise money for the enough. Ss may become
school? Write a list. confused about whether they
should begin their list with

Exercise 9: Read and answer the
questions:
1) How long was Felicity at the
Street Academy School?
2) Why is the Street Academy
School different to other
schools in Ghana?
3) What facilities does the new
school have?
4) How much money does she
want to raise in total?
verbs or nouns.
- The activity does not fully
meet the intended learning
outcomes, as it focuses on
one paragraph only.
- After Exercise 6 and 7, Ss
have acquired sufficient
information and main ideas
from the text.
⇒ There is no need to complete
Exercise 8.
- This activity aims to let Ss read REORDER
through the text and gather
information
- The instruction is not clear
enough, as it does not specify the
requirements for the answer. This
lack of clarity could make students
unsure of how to provide a suitable
answer.
- The order of this exercise is also
inappropriate as Exercise 7 (T/F
 5) What shape are new
windows?
Exercise 10:
Find words 1-5 in the text and
match them with definitions a-e
questions) is more difficult and
requires more steps than Exercise 9.
⇒ T should reorder this exercise
and use it for facilitating students
to explore the text.
- In this activity, students learn DELETING
several vocabularies from the
text. The number of
vocabulary is satisfactory, but
the level of vocabulary is
unsuitable. The definitions for
"objective," "initiate (a
product or project)," and
"multiply by two" are
unsuitable because the terms
used in these definitions are
more advanced than the terms
themselves. Moreover, the
given vocabulary is not
relevant to the lesson’s topic.
At this stage of while-reading,
the number of activities is
sufficient.
⇒ Therefore, there is no need to

Exercise 11: INTERFACE Work in
pairs. Tell your partner about
someone you know who helps other
people.
carry out this activity.
- This activity helps students
practice sharing their own
experiences.
- However, the discussion content of
this activity does not allow students
to reflect on the reading text,
thereby continuing to reflect on
themselves.
REPLACING
POST-READING
Activity 6:
Write a short text (about 50 words) to answer the
following questions:
- What do you think about Felicity's project?
○ Do you like it, why or why not?
○ Do you want to help to raise the
fund?
- T asks Ss to write a short text to answer
questions individually
- T gives feedback on their texts.
ADDING
WRAP-UP: Checklist
- Ss tick the box that they are able to do:
+ After the lesson, I can:
● summarize the main idea of the text about a
charity project.
● identify detailed information of the text to
complete the True/ False exercise.
● write a text to show my opinion on the text
information.
 3. Summary:
LEAD-IN
Activity 1:
- T asks Ss 3 questions respectively:
+ Do you usually help people?
+ Who did you help?
+ How did you help them?
- T invites several Ss to give their answers.
- T leads to the lesson’s topic about a woman who loves helping other people.

PRE-READING
Activity 2:
- T asks Ss to look at the picture at the beginning of the reading text.
Look at the picture above the reading text, then answer these questions:
+ Who did the woman help?
+ How did she help them?
- T allows Ss to orally discuss given questions.
- T invites Ss to express their opinion.

WHILE-READING
Activity 3:
- T asks Ss to answer the questions. The provided answers should be one phrase.
Read and answer the questions with one phrase:
1. How long was Felicity at the Street Academy School?
 2. Why is the Street Academy School different to other schools in Ghana?
3. What facilities does the new school have?
4. How much money does she want to raise in total?
5. What shape are new windows?
- T confirms Ss’ answer.

Activity 4:
- T asks Ss to look at the statements in activity 4
- T asks Ss how they should do with this type of exercise (true/false)
- T elicits the steps for Ss to complete true/false exercise (identify the keywords that carry the meaning of the statement
- read the text again - decide whether the statement is true or false)
- T asks Ss to complete activity 4
Read the text again. Are the sentences true or false?

- T corrects Ss’ answers.

Activity 5:
- T asks Ss to look at the three titles in activity 5
- T elicits Ss how to decide on the most suitable title for the text (the one that covers the main topic of the text)
- T asks Ss to complete the activity 5
After reading the text, choose the best title:
 - T corrects Ss’ answers
- T confirms Ss’ answers in activity 2.

POST-READING
Activity 6:
- T asks Ss to write a short text to answer questions individually.
Write a short text (about 50 words) to answer the following questions:
+ What do you think about Felicity's project?
● Do you like it, why or why not?
● Do you want to help to raise the fund?
- T gives feedback on their texts.

WRAP-UP:
Activity 7:
- Ss are required to tick the box that they are able to do:
+ After the lesson, I can:
● summarize the main idea of the text about a charity project.
● identify detailed information of the text to complete the True/ False exercise.
● write a text to show my opinion on the text information.