? 6-10-2021-U2-L4-Reading

Circle how you are feeling:
English
Impact 2
Grade 8
Semester 1
Unit 2
Feeling Good?
Lesson 4: Reading
6-10-2021
Virtual Learning
Class agreement
https://www.menti.com/15ec8gowio
STARTER (5min)
Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
‐ read about and discuss how the adolescent brain undergoes structural
changes.
‐ identify and use new words form the reading passage.
‐ write sentences using the new vocabulary.
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Ministry of Education- First Semester 2021-2022 English - Grade 8 – Unit 2– Lesson 4 Reading (The
Teenage Brain)
Getting Started
Think! Check your answers
1. Who is a teenager?
A teenager is a person between 13 and 19 years old.
2. What are the characteristics of a teenager?

Independent, emotional, energetic, adventurous and risk-taking.
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Ministry of Education- First Semester 2021-2022 English - Grade 8 – Unit 2– Lesson 4 Reading (The Teenage Brain)
Learn New Words
Look at the words below and try to guess their meanings. There is an
example for each word that may help you to guess correctly. If you still
have some doubts, you can use a dictionary to look up their meanings.
Then
Match the words to the correct pictures describing them.
Although she is still an adolescent, the teenager
adolescent: thinks her mother should give her more freedom to
make her own decisions.
experience: She told us about her experience flying a plane.
process: We're in the process of selling our house.
The company has a pyramid organizational

structure:
structure.
Learn New Words
Look at the words below and try to guess their meanings. There is an example for each
word that may help you to guess correctly. If you still have some doubts, you can use a
dictionary to look up their meanings. Then
Match the words to the correct pictures describing them.
Although she is still an adolescent, the teenager
adolescent: thinks her mother should give her more freedom to
make her own decisions.
experience: She told us about her experience flying a plane.
process: We're in the process of selling our house.
structure: The company has a pyramid organizational

structure.
Learn New Words
.Now compare those meanings with your guesses
a young person who is developing from a
adolescent: child into an adult.
the knowledge and skill that you have gained through

experience: doing something for a period of time.
a series of actions that are carried out in order

process:
to achieve a particular result.
is the way in which the parts of something are

structure: connected, arranged or organized.
Task 1
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Let’s Practice
Circle the right choice. An example is given.
For example
1. He gained valuable experience/process while working on the project.
2. I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the structure/process..
3. The film had a simple narrative structure/experience.
4. The adolescent/experience stage of life is a very natural one. It simply means that our

children are developing into adults.
5. He wrote about his process/experience as a pilot.

Let’s Practice
.Circle the right choice. An example is given
Once you finish, check your answers.
For example
1. He gained valuable experience/process while working on the project.
2. I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the structure/process..
3. The film had a simple narrative structure/experience.
4. The adolescent/experience stage of life is a very natural one. It simply means

that our children are developing into adults.
5. He wrote about his process/experience as a pilot.

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Before You Read
Read the title and predict what you are going to read about.
The Teenage Brain
Write some ideas:
……………………………………………………………
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Before You Read
Read the title and predict what you are going to read about.
Check some suggested answers
The Teenage Brain
Write some ideas:

We are going to read about:
• the teenagers’ brain.
……………………………………………………………
• the main parts of the human brain.
………………....................................................................
• how our brain works.
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While You Read
The Teenage Brain Shaping your future
Scan through the text and highlight/circle these words:
adolescent, experience, process and structure
1. A teenager’s body goes through physical changes that are 3. As a result, your experience as a teenager affects the
obvious to all. The brain, after all, is part of the body and, way that your brain develops. For example, spending
more importantly, is the organ that controls the body’s hours playing video games makes you use your eyes and
activities. Changes happen throughout your body and your hands a lot. As you develop, your brain makes sure that
brain as well. the roads leading to them are fast and efficient. So, the
2. However, the changes in your brain are affecting how you skills you acquired from playing video games could be
develop into an adult. At this stage, there is a process going preparing you for a career such as a fighter pilot, or even
on inside your brain that makes it work faster and more a surgeon.
efficiently. 4. Adolescence is a period in which teenagers confront
Just imagine the structure of your brain is like a road map. challenges, pressures, stresses, and temptation. On the
There are many roads leading to different destinations. As a other hand, it is a great time for teenagers to practice
child, you learnt new things; your brain created more and new skills and discover what they are good at and what
more roads leading to different destinations. By the time they love doing. Remember that with everything you do
you reach the adolescent age, your brain removes the roads in this period, you are shaping your brain for the future.
that you don’t need and works to make the other roads
faster.
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While You Read
The Teenage Brain Shaping your future
Read and find these words: adolescent, experience, process and structure
Check your answers on the next slide
1. A teenager’s body goes through physical changes that are 3. As a result, your experience as a teenager affects the way
obvious to all. The brain, after all, is part of the body and, more that your brain develops. For example, spending hours
importantly, is the organ that controls the body’s activities. playing video games makes you use your eyes and hands a
Changes happen throughout your body and your brain as well. lot. As you develop, your brain makes sure that the roads
2. However, the changes in your brain are affecting how you leading to them are fast and efficient. So, the skills you
develop into an adult. At this stage, there is a process going on acquired from playing video games could be preparing you
inside your brain that makes it work faster and more efficiently. for a career such as a fighter pilot, or even a surgeon.
Just imagine the structure of your brain is like a road map. 4. Adolescence is a period in which teenagers confront
There are many roads leading to different destinations. As a challenges, pressures, stresses, and temptation. On the other
child, you learnt new things; your brain created more and more hand, it is a great time for teenagers to practice new skills
roads leading to different destinations. By the time you reach and discover what they are good at and what they love
the adolescent age, your brain removes the roads that you don’t doing. Remember that with everything you do in this period,
need and works to make the other roads faster. you are shaping your brain for the future.
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Task 3
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The Teenage Brain While You Read
Shaping your future
Read the paragraph 1 and match it with a suitable summary from the boxes below.
What you do as an Your brain forms many connections when you
adolescent affects are a child, and then it makes them more It is important to try to have
your brain. efficient when you are a teenager. lots of experience when you
Teenagers experience a lot of change. are a teenager.
1. A teenager’s body goes through physical changes that are

obvious to all. The brain, after all, is part of the body and,
more importantly, is the organ that controls the body’s
activities. Changes happen throughout your body and your
brain as well.
Shaping your future
Teenagers experience a lot
of change.
1. A teenager’s body goes through physical changes that are

obvious to all. The brain, after all, is part of the body and,
more importantly, is the organ that controls the body’s
activities. Changes happen throughout your body and your
brain as well.
Shaping your future
It is important to try to have
adolescent affects are a child, and then it makes them more
lots of experience when you
your brain. efficient when you are a teenager.
are a teenager.
Teenagers experience a lot of change.
2. However, the changes in your brain are affecting how you develop into an
adult. At this stage, there is a process going on inside your brain that makes it
work faster and more efficiently.
Just imagine the structure of your brain is like a road map. There are many roads
leading to different destinations. As a child, you learnt new things; your brain
created more and more roads leading to different destinations. By the time you
reach the adolescent age, your brain removes the roads that you don’t need and
works to make the other roads faster.
Shaping your future
Read the paragraph and match it with a suitable summary from the boxes below.
Your brain forms many connections when you are a child, and then it makes them more efficient
when you are a teenager.
2. However, the changes in your brain are affecting how you develop into an adult. At this
stage, there is a process going on inside your brain that makes it work faster and more
efficiently.
Just imagine the structure of your brain is like a road map. There are many roads leading
to different destinations. As a child, you learnt new things; your brain created more and
more roads leading to different destinations. By the time you reach the adolescent age, your
brain removes the roads that you don’t need and works to make the other roads faster.
Shaping your future
are a teenager.
3. As a result, your experience as a teenager affects the way that your

brain develops. For example, spending hours playing video games
makes you use your eyes and hands a lot. As you develop, your brain
makes sure that the roads leading to them are fast and efficient. So,
the skills you acquired from playing video games could be preparing
you for a career such as a fighter pilot, or even a surgeon.
Shaping your future
What you do as an adolescent affects your
brain.
3. As a result, your experience as a teenager affects the way that your

brain develops. For example, spending hours playing video games
makes you use your eyes and hands a lot. As you develop, your brain
makes sure that the roads leading to them are fast and efficient. So,
the skills you acquired from playing video games could be preparing
you for a career such as a fighter pilot, or even a surgeon.
Shaping your future
are a teenager.
4. Adolescence is a period in which teenagers confront challenges,

pressures, stresses, and temptation. On the other hand, it is a great
time for teenagers to practice new skills and discover what they are
good at and what they love doing. Remember that with everything
you do in this period, you are shaping your brain for the future.
Shaping your future
It is important to try to have lots of experience when you are a teenager.
4. Adolescence is a period in which teenagers confront challenges,

pressures, stresses, and temptation. On the other hand, it is a great
time for teenagers to practice new skills and discover what they are
good at and what they love doing. Remember that with everything
you do in this period, you are shaping your brain for the future.
Task 4
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After You Read
Answer these questions.
1. List two or three activities that you want to try?
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After You Read
Answer these questions.
Coding, weightlifting, makeup, blogging, travelling, cooking,
…………………………………………………………………………...
fashion designing, painting
2. Choose one of the activities above. Describe how the skills you develop
while practicing this activity will be useful for your future job?
…………………………………………………………………………...
After You Read
Answer these questions. Suggested answers

Coding, weightlifting, makeup, blogging, travelling, cooking, fashion designing, painting
…………………………………………………………………………...
2. Choose one of the activities above. Describe how the skills you develop
while practicing this activity will be useful for your future job?
Weightlifting increases strength, maintains muscle tissue, improves bone health

…………………………………………………………………………...
and controls body fat. It helps to become a firefighter, soldier or policeman in the
future.
Another suggested answer:
Coding has increasingly become one of the biggest trends in the education sector. If a kid
starts learning how to code from an early age, it opens the door to plenty of opportunities
for both in terms of acquiring life skills and exploring career opportunities.
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Task 5
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Assessment
.Look at the words below and put them in sentences
adolescent process structure experience
Suggested answers
1. …………………………………………………………………………………… .
2. …………………………………………………………………………………… .
3. …………………………………………………………………………………… .
4. …………………………………………………………………………………… .
*Put a (✔) if you followed the criteria.
Criteria Self-assessment
I use the correct tense.
I spell correctly.
I punctuate well. (full-stops, commas, ----)
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I use capitals.
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Assessment
.Look at the words below and put them in sentences
adolescent process structure experience
Suggested answers
1. The process includes different steps. It takes about six weeks.

…………………………………………………………………………………… .
I know from experience that Tony always keeps his promises..
2. …………………………………………………………………………………… .
3. The new manager is planning to change the structure of the company.
…………………………………………………………………………………… .
4. The adolescent boy sitting in the corner hasn’t spoken for hours.
…………………………………………………………………………………… .
*Put a (✔) if you followed the criteria.
Criteria Self-assessment
I use the correct tense.
I spell correctly.
I punctuate well. (full-stops, commas, ----)
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I use capitals.
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Plenary
Complete the sentences with the reading vocabulary learned today.
Click
on the www.kahoot.it
link
.Complete the sentences with the right words
Once you finish, check your answers.
experience process structure

adolescent
experience
1. He has little …………………… using this program.
process
2. Losing weight is a slow gradual ………………..
3. Jason developed from a nice young boy into a moody ………………adolescent

structure
4. The children needed ………..……. and direction in their lives.
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This is the end of the lesson.
Thank You!
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Circle how you are feeling:

‐ identify and use new words form the reading passage.

‐ write sentences using the new vocabulary.

2. What are the characteristics of a teenager?

experience: She told us about her experience flying a plane.

process: We're in the process of selling our house.

The company has a pyramid organizational

experience: She told us about her experience flying a plane.

process: We're in the process of selling our house.

structure: The company has a pyramid organizational

the knowledge and skill that you have gained through

a series of actions that are carried out in order

is the way in which the parts of something are

1. He gained valuable experience/process while working on the project.

2. I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the structure/process..

3. The film had a simple narrative structure/experience.

4. The adolescent/experience stage of life is a very natural one. It simply means that our

5. He wrote about his process/experience as a pilot.

1. He gained valuable experience/process while working on the project.

2. I was moving some furniture and I twisted my ankle in the structure/process..

3. The film had a simple narrative structure/experience.

4. The adolescent/experience stage of life is a very natural one. It simply means

5. He wrote about his process/experience as a pilot.

The Teenage Brain

Write some ideas:

The Teenage Brain

Write some ideas:

What you do as an Your brain forms many connections when you

Teenagers experience a lot of change. are a teenager.

1. A teenager’s body goes through physical changes that are

Teenagers experience a lot

1. A teenager’s body goes through physical changes that are

when you are a teenager.

3. As a result, your experience as a teenager affects the way that your

What you do as an adolescent affects your

3. As a result, your experience as a teenager affects the way that your

4. Adolescence is a period in which teenagers confront challenges,

It is important to try to have lots of experience when you are a teenager.

4. Adolescence is a period in which teenagers confront challenges,

1. List two or three activities that you want to try?

Weightlifting increases strength, maintains muscle tissue, improves bone health

1. The process includes different steps. It takes about six weeks.

experience process structure

3. Jason developed from a nice young boy into a moody ………………adolescent

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