Main part
The teacher asks Students to watch a video on You Tube “How to Make People Say Yes” and speak about technique to persuade people to say “yes”.
One St. make a conclusion about the ways of saying yes.
PRE - READING EXERCISE:
The teacher shows the headline of the text to students and asks them to speak about the problem. Ex. 1
Sts. read the questions to the text to prepare the answers after reading.
WHILE - Reading exercise: Ex. 2 p. 106: give the right answers. (Pair work).
How will you react if a girlfriend or a boyfriend leaves you?
In groups, speak about optimistic and pessimistic people.
The teacher monitors students' progress and offer support where necessary.
Then students can have a discussion to represent all the roles. (2 min per student).
Role-cards.
Discussion Director(Interpersonal Intelligence).
Task: Lead the discussion. Prepare 3 open-ended and thought-provoking questions about the story that your group might want to discuss. Help others talk about the main idea, help them share their thoughts and feelings.
Descriptors:
1. Write 2 open-ended questions.
2. Write your responses to these questions.
3. Keep the discussion going.
Role-cards.
Discussion Director(Interpersonal Intelligence).
Task: Lead the discussion. Prepare 2 open-ended and thought-provoking questions about the story that your group might want to discuss. Help others talk about the main idea, help them share their thoughts and feelings.
Descriptors:
1. Write 2 open-ended questions.
2. Write your responses to these questions.
3. Keep the discussion going.
Passage Picker(Body-Kinesthetic Intelligence).
Task: Choose a paragraph that you think your group would like to re-read.
Descriptors:
1. Choose an interesting or important paragraph and write down its location.
2. Read passage aloud yourself (using body language), or ask someone else to read it, or ask the group to read it silently and then discuss.
Options
Write why you have chosen this paragraph.
Possible reasons for selecting the paragraph:
Ä important to text
Ä surprising
Ä makes you think
Ä well written
Ä confusing
Ä interesting
Word Wizard (Verbal-linguistic Intelligence).
Task: Find in the text 5 words or phrases that you had difficulty reading or understand in the story.
Descriptors:
1. Write 5 unfamiliar or puzzling words in a full sentence. (You may also find familiar word repeated a lot).
2. Write the location of the word (e. g. Pg. 58 § 4).
3. Try and guess the meaning from context.
3. Find a dictionary definition.
The STs. do Ex. 3 - 5 p. 106
Options
1. Find more that 5 phrases with look/ smell/ feel/ taste.
2. Make a list of synonyms and antonyms.
3. Create new sentences with these words.
4. Use online dictionary to find out the pronunciation of the words.
Summariser(Intrapersonal Intelligence).
Task: Prepare a brief description of the key points in the story.
Descriptors:
1. Write at least 2 sentences.
2. Write in your own words.
3. Present the important events in a logical order.
Options
1. Include the moral and meaning of the story.
2. Give your opinion of the story so that other students can express theirs.
Illustrator(Visual-spatial Intelligence).
Task: Draw a picture related to the story.
Descriptors:
1. Prepare an illustration.
2. Share your drawing and ask group members what he/she thinks you have drawn and how it is connected with the story.
3. Explain your illustration.
Options
You can draw a character, a moment or a setting.
Connector(Logical-mathematical Intelligence).
Task: Find a part of the story that reminds you of something you have seen, heard, done or read about before.
Descriptors:
1. Write at least 2 sentences. Make connections with your own experience, another text or the world.
2. Give evidence from the book to support your connection.
Options
Use graphic organiser to record and compare your connections to what happened in the text.
Character Analyser(Logical-mathematical
Intelligence).
Task: Share observations about the main characters.
Descriptors:
1. Select 3 main characters and using adjectives describe their characteristics.
2. Write at least 5 sentences.
Consider:
Ä How the character is feeling and why?
Ä How the character reacts to different events?
Ä How the character interacts with other characters
Options
Put yourself in the character's shoes and explain the story from his (her) point of view.
Creative Exercise: Ex. 6 p. 106.
Find opposites in the text, make up sentences: mean, rude, boring, negativeand optimistic.
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