1. ENGLISH LESSON PLAN
Class: CFS students, Level 3.
Date: 25 April 2013.
Time:10am – 11.20am
Topic: Skimming and Scanning skills.
Focused skill: Reading
Integrated skills: Listening and Writing.
Curriculum specifications:Not relevant at this point.
Learning Outcomes&General objectives: By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:-
I. Skim the general idea of the text.
II. Scan the specific idea of the text.
III. Differentiate the skimming and scanning skills.
Previous knowledge: Based on the previous lesson, students have been exposed to general reading skills.
Instructional materials: Online articles.
Educational Emphasis: Reading Skill.
2. STEP TEACHING / LEARNING ACTIVITIES TEACHING AIDS EVALUATION ROLE OF RATIONALE/
TEACHER REMARKS
Set Induction Students are asked whether they know what Short News Article is shown by Teacher asked To attract the
5 minutes skimming and scanning skills are. using the projector. the questions students’ interest
and analysed about the topic.
Teacher opens the link given and shows it by http://www.shortnewsarticles.com the former
using the projector. /Article/2-Extraordinarily- skills that the To introduce
Effective-Speed-Reading- students have. skimming and
Students are asked to read the text and try to Exercises/8592 scanning skills.
scan and skim together with the teacher.
Examples of questions:
-What are the general ideas of the
text?
-Can you analyse the main ideas
of this text?
Step 1 Teacher gives explanations to students about Using Prezi programme to teach Teacher gives To familiarise the
15 minutes skimming skill in reading. students on skimming skill. clear idea of skimming
explanation on in students’
The explanations are given through power http://prezi.com/twyih93wk1zl/co skimming reading skills.
point slides that are prepared by the teacher. py-of-skimming-scanning/ skills and
gives a lot of To develop skill
Examples of clue: examples. that is useful in
understanding
-How do you extract information Teacher makes texts.
from a text? room for
-What is skimming? question and
answer
session.
Step 2 Students are paired up in this task. A short paragraph from the article Marks will be Teacher To observe
3. 10 minutes is used. given to those observes the whether the
Students are asked to open the link given to who skim students’ students have
them. http://makethemclick.com.au/libra correctly. performance understood
ry/online-copywriting/how- based on the previous lesson.
Students are given 5 minutes to scan the people-read-online report.
article and list out the specific or main ideas.
The report will
Students are asked to discuss and report the be evaluated.
general ideas of the article.
Step 3 Teacher gives explanations to students about Using Prezi programme to teach Teacher gives To familiarise the
15 minutes scanning skill in reading. students on skimming skill. clear idea of scanning
explanation on in students’
The explanations are given through power http://prezi.com/twyih93wk1zl/co skimming reading skills.
point slides that are prepared by the teacher. py-of-skimming-scanning/ skills and
gives a lot of To develop skill
Examples of clue: examples. that is useful in
-How do you extract information extracting
from a text? Teacher makes information from
-What is scanning? room for the texts.
question and
answer
session.
Step 4 Students are paired up in this task. A short paragraph from the article Marks will be Teacher To observe
10 minutes is used. given to those observes the whether the
Students are asked to open the link given to who scan students’ students have
them. http://makethemclick.com.au/libra correctly. performance understood
ry/online-copywriting/how- based on the previous lesson.
Students are given 5 minutes to scan the people-read-online report.
article and list out the specific or main ideas. The report will
be evaluated.
Students are asked to discuss and report the
4. general ideas of the article.
Step 5 Students are provided with a text that is Simple exercise based on a The computer will Teacher To detect
15 minutes different from the previous one. medium-long story is provided in evaluate the observes the students’
the link. answers given by students’ improvement in
Students work individually. the students after performance skimming and
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/study they have based on the scanning skills
They need to use the provided activity that is zone/410/reading/hiker.htm answered each of answer. based on their
available online. They have to analyse the the questions. performance in
text and answer the questions. They need to The answer the activity.
open the link. will be
evaluated. To examine the
They are given 10 minutes to skim and scan students’ level of
the text and answer the questions. understanding the
skills.
To enhance their
reading skills.
Closure Students are asked to recap the lessons to Teacher To make sure that
10 minutes improve their understanding. repeats the the lesson has
essence of the reached its
Summing up the lessons in simple sentences lesson, objective.
and answer some questions. skimming and
-Why do you think it would be helpful to scanning
skim or scan an article, rather than read the skills.
entire text?
-Do you think there are times that you would
need to read the entire article instead of
simply skimming and scanning it? When?
