Form: 2 Alpha Date: 8th April 2013 Theme: Technology Focused Skills: Writing

Level: Beginner- Intermediate Time: 10.35 am-12.35 p.m (80mins) Topic: Report writing

Integrated Reading Skills: Grammar Sequence connector: Next, furthermore, moreover, structures/lexic firstly, secondly, besides al items/phonolog y: Curriculum - vi. Identifying main ideas in simple texts. Specifications: - vii. Identifying supporting details or ideas in simple texts. - Reading and understanding non-linear texts such as simple diagrams and tables. Behavioural By the end of this lesson students are able to Objectives: - Differentiate various kind of report writing - Use sequence connector to connect sentences - Write a simple report using simple graph - Organize points in a report in an appropriate order Moral values - Preparation for the Real World and - Thinking skills educational - Learning How to Learn Skills emphases as appropriate : Previous - N/A knowledge: Anticipated - Students could not finish the task on time problems: Proposed - T continues with the next activity if the majority of solutions: the students have finished Resources: - Handout of the report writing activity, mahjong paper, markers, slips of paper

Stages and times Set Induction (10 minutes)

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Teaching-learning activities

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Lead in activity (40 minutes)

Asking questions politely to get information Exchanging ideas, information and opinions on topics of interest.

1) T writes on the board the word report. T invites the students to give as much meaning as possible about the word. 2) T writes writing next to the previous word. T asks students, when people usually use report writing? 3) T explains to the students about report writing and its function to their everyday life. 1) T writes the headline on the board. A mystery disappearance of an English teacher: Student suspected. 2) T tells the students that they are going to write a news report using the headlines. 3) T asks the students to get into groups of 5. Next, T gives out slips of paper to each group. 4) T tells the students that today, they are going to be a reporter. On the slip of paper they need to write a question which will be given to the teacher to be answered. The answered questions than will be used in the news report they are going to write. 5) T gives out prompts such as what? When? Who? Why? on the whiteboard to help

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1) Introducing the type of writing 2) Relating to students previous knowledge

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1) Introducing report writing through an interesting activity

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Main activity (50 minutes)

reading materials such as articles in print and in electronic media Skimming and scanning for specific information and ideas

them write the report. 6) Once the students have finished collecting the information. They will have to write a report. T shows the correct format of a news report. T chooses one of the students from each group to become the editor. T gives the editors a slip of paper containing a checklist. 1) T tells the students that now they are going to write another report individually. 2) It is a different report which uses graph as the main information. However, it uses the same format as the previous report. 3) T gives out the handout to each student. T discusses about the information in the handout with the students. 4) T asks the students to write a simple report based on the handout given.

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1) Applying the knowledge learnt to a different context

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