Fluency Plus 6 - Unit 8.1 - Reading
Fluency Plus 6 - Unit 8.1 - Reading
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TEXTBOOK: FLUENCY 6
Unit 8: STAYING HEALTHY
Reading: Reading about teenager’s sleeping
problem
A. OBJECTIVES
By the end of the lesson, students will be able to read information about the topic “teenager’s
sleeping problem”, know some activities, words, or phrases about sleeping’s problem, and know
how to understand the main idea of the text and discuss sleeping’s problem.
1. Core competences
- Identify different types of reading and speaking skills.
- Be familiar with the words “sleeping’s problem”
2. General competences
- Communication and collaboration: work in pairs/groups to identify sleeping’s problem.
- Problem-solving and creativity: find out different kinds of sleeping’s problem and tips to solve
them in the reading.
3. Attributes
- Kindness: help partners to complete learning tasks.
- Diligence: work hard to complete learning tasks.
- Honesty: tell the truth about feelings and emotions or play fair in games.
- Responsibility: appreciate kindness.
- Leadership: collaborate with teachers to enhance language skills.
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D. LEARNING EXPERIENCES
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well.
🡪Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can understand the rules and play a game very well.
- Task completed: Students can play a game.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to play a game.
PRESENTATION
Objective: To help students identify the vocabulary and phrases about teenager’s sleeping problem,
and know how to understand the main idea of the text and discuss sleeping problems.
*Lead-in: Show the pictures on page 82 - Open the book, on page 82.
and ask students what they can see in these - Look at 6 pictures and discuss
pictures. what you can see.
*Exercise 1:
- Ask students to look at the pictures and - Look at pictures in the books.
discuss the statements in pairs. - Work in pairs and decide what
- Invite some students to answer and explain you can see in these pictures. - Slides 3 –
- Complete exercise 1. 4
why they choose it.
- Correct the answer and ask students about - Raise hands to answer the
their habits relating to the statements questions.
provided. - The others keep quiet when
volunteers share ideas.
- Listen to the teacher about
correction.
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correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can listen and understand the questions about the topic.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to complete the exercise.
PRACTICE
Objective: To understand the article about teenager’s sleeping problem and apply the exam advice
for reading skills: understand the main idea of the texts
*Exercise 3:
- Read out the instructions. - Should read the highlighted
- Ask students what they will do with this words and the sentences before
kind of exercise. and after them, and remember to
ignore strange words. - Slides 5 –
- Ask students to read the highlighted words
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in the text, then guess their definitions in - Identify what words form they
exercise 3. If they fail to guess the are.
definitions, the teacher advices them to read - Match the highlighted words
the whole sentence or the whole paragraph. with definitions that are similar
- Ask students to do the exercise individually. in meaning and word form.
- Check the answer with the class. - Complete exercise 3.
- Check answers with the
teacher.
*Exercise 4:
- Ask students to read the exam advice.
- Then, ask students to follow these steps: - Read the exam advice.
1. Underline keywords in the statements. - Follow these steps.
2. Scan the first and the last sentences of the - Complete exercise 4.
paragraphs to find keywords relating to - Raise hands to answer the
provided statements. questions.
3. Compare the statements with the texts in - The others keep quiet when
each paragraph to decide the answers. volunteers share ideas.
- Ask students to do the exercise individually. - Listen to the teacher about
- Invite students to answer and explain their correction.
choice.
*Exercise 5:
- Ask students what they will do with this - Read the questions first, then
kind of exercise. find the keyword.
- Invite some students to answer, then instruct - Find them in the text and
students how to do this exercise effectively. choose the answer.
- After students finish the exercise, invite - No need to read the whole text.
students to answer and explain their choice. - Raise hands to answer the
questions.
- The others keep quiet when
volunteers share ideas.
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- Listen to the teacher about
corrections.
*Extra activity:
Game: The Lighting quiz - Follow the rules of the game.
How to play: - Choose one volunteer for each
- Divide the class into 4 teams, then ask one round.
student from each team to come to the board. - The player should ring the bell
- The player of each team should ring the bell and give the answer fast.
and answer the questions as fast as possible. - The others can discuss
- There is no exact answer to each question, questions but are noisy or
the teacher who gives the final result. fighting.
- There are 15 seconds for each question.
- Which team can reach the last question is
the winner.
Questions:
1. How do you spend most of your free
time?
2. Why is sleep important?
3. Do you think you get enough sleep?
4. Which are the best tips for good sleep?
5. Can you think of any more tips?
6. Why do teenagers have difficulty
sleeping?
7. What does the secondary school in the
United States do to solve problem?
8. What sport can you play?
9. What do you think about milktea?
10. What do you think about taking a nap?
11. Are you a night owl or an early bird?
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🡪Expected outcomes and assessment
- Task completed with excellence: Students can say the words about the topic correctly and fluently.
- Task completed: Students can say the words about the topic.
- Task uncompleted: Students are unable to say the words about the topic.
WRAP UP AND HOMEWORK
- Play a “Snow storm” game to review the lesson (slide 27)
o Ask students to prepare a piece of paper.
o Write the main idea or summary of the content. For example:
1. Do you often take a nap?
2. If you can take a nap, how much time do you need?
o Crumble and throw it in the air.
o Each student picks up someone else’s snowball and reads it loud.
o Remember to keep the snowball after the class. You need them for the next class.
- Learn by heart the words/ phrases about sleeping problems.
- Prepare for the next lesson: Unit 8 Grammar: The first conditional
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