Date: /09/2014 School: Al khawarizmi High School

Class Level: 1
st
Year Baccalaureate Class Size:

Class Period: 50 min Lesson: Reading Comprehension

Textbook: Ticket To English Teacher: Almallam Boujemaa
Unit: 1
Title: Education
Lesson Type: Reading Integrated Skills: Speaking
OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to:
1. Survey a text for the main idea.
2. Read and specify the sentence that best summarise the main ideas of each paragraph
3. Make inferences.
4. Show general understanding of the text.
Time Procedure Techniques
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08min
Warm Up
Greeting students.
Set up the scene and lead in to the main topic.
Prereading Stage
Motivation activity
Students discuss the following questions with their partners:
1. Who are better at languages, boys or girls?
2. Who are better at mathematics and physics?
3. Who are more disciplined in school?
4. Who participates more in classroom activities?
preteaching of vocabulary
grasp, gender stereotypes, nationwide, awarded, trend, outperform
While Reading Stage
First Reading
students read the text and find the writers answer to the following question:
DO GIRLS DO BETTER THAN BOYS AT SCHOOL?
Second Reading
Which sentence summarises best the ideas in each paragraph?
Paragraph 1: something was going wrong for girls, anyway.
Paragraph 2: In fact, these days, 57% of university students are women.
Paragraph 3: Younger boys and girls also show differences in academic
performance, in one direction: girls do better than boys.
Third Reading
Decide if these sentences are true or false, and justify your choice.
According to the writer,
a) In the past, boys did better than girls especially at Math and Science.
b) At university there more boys than girls nowadays.
c) In 4
th
, 8
th
, and 12
th
grades, girls do better than boys at writing and reading.
Answers:
1.True
2. False: These days, 57% of university students are women.
3. True
Fourth Reading
students answer the following questions:





activating the
schema

Brainstorming
Discussion

context

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skimming








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1. Why did girls show less grasp of important concepts in some tests?
2. Why did girls focus more on their body?
3. Who get more masters degrees nowadays, men or women?
4. Which educational system do you think this text is about?
Answers:
1. They participated less than boys in class. Parents and teachers had lower
expectations of girls mathematics and science ability and did not encourage
girls as much.
2. In order to be more attractive to boys.
3. Women: that may be true for masters degrees as well
4. Open to discussion

Post-reading
Students discuss the following question:
How do Moroccan students compare with those described in the text?





Group work





Q/A
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