Problem solving reading and writing classes
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The document outlines a lesson plan by Hussain Al-Ghawi focused on reading and writing skills for ESL students at high-intermediate and advanced levels. It includes procedures for reading an article about ice cream and writing about Martin Luther King, emphasizing comprehension, vocabulary, and sentence combination techniques. The activities aim to engage students in group discussions and improve their understanding and writing capabilities.
Problem solving reading and writing classes
- 3. What is Reading? Reading is the process of extracting meaning from a written or printed text.
- 4. • A. Level: ESL high-intermediate level. • B. Aim: To help students understand the content and identify the main idea. Briefly Description
- 5. Materials •1. Academic article: Ice Cream. •2. Pencils or highlighters. •3. Chalk and blackboard.
- 6. Before started • 1. What is Ice cream made of? • 2. Where does ice cream come from? • 3. What is your favorite flavor?
- 7. Procedure 1. Pre-read the article Ice Cream. 2. Seven students will read each paragraph of the article out loud. 3. Students will read the article by using skimming and scanning to find the main idea.
- 8. 4. Give students chance to ask about hard new vocabularies and teacher will give the students the meaning of the words. Also, give chance to other students to guess the meaning of bold terms in the passage. 5. divided the students into 4-5 groups, and each groups consist of 3-4 students. 6. Each group will answer the article questions and type the answers in the blackboard. Procedure
- 9. Start reading and keep in your mind 1. Read the article Ice Cream and ask your teacher for the hard new words. 2. Think about the different types of information you could find on the passage. Then, read to see if you were right.
- 10. Post-Reading Activities There are four kinds of Article Questions A.Five General Questions (article topic/ main idea) B. Four questions True/False c. Three questions Identify Words refer D. Three questions words meaning
- 12. What is a writing? Writing is: "Writing" is the process of using symbols (letters of the alphabet, punctuation and spaces) to communicate thoughts and ideas in a readable form.
- 13. Briefly Description •A. Level: ESL advance level. •B. Aim: - Help students increase their writing skills. - Help students with sentence combination
- 14. Materials 1. Print copies of the original academic article: Martin Luther King. 2. Print copies of the text modified of the academic article: Martin Luther King. 2. Pencils. 3. Chalk and blackboard.
- 15. Procedure - Before class, make two copies of the worksheet for each student. - Hand out a copy of the text modified academic article for each student. - Ask the students to write their names at the top. - Teach students the two type of sentence:
- 16. 1. Sentences combination by using these examples: She was our Latin teacher. We were in high school. She was tiny. She was a birdlike woman. She was swarthy. She had dark eyes. Her eyes were sparkling. Her hair was graying.
- 17. After combining Our Latin teacher in high school was a tiny woman. She was swarthy and birdlike. She had dark, sparkling eyes and graying hair. When we were in high school, our Latin teacher was a tiny woman. She was swarthy and birdlike, with dark, sparkling eyes and graying hair.
- 18. 2. How to make your sentence make sense. - Then, tell the students to read the article. - After that, divided the students into 4-5 groups, and each groups consist of 3-4 students. - Each group will answer the article questions and type the answers in the blackboard. - Lastly, hand out a copy of the original academic article for each student.
- 19. Martin Luther King •Identify the sentences need to be combination. There are four sentences need to be combination. •make the sentence make sense
- 20. For examples, • Exercise two: make the sentence make sense • 1. Martin Luther King • 2. Born on January 15 1929 • Answer: Martin Luther King was born in January 1929.