Lesson type: reading (with writing extension)
Level: Pre-Intermediate/low Intermediate
Time: 60 minutes, plus homework. Writing can be extended into subsequent lessons.
Aims:
- To practise skills of reading for gist, reading for detail, and understanding meaning from context.
- To practice writing a letter to the newspaper, proposing a new statue.
Suggested timetable fit:
- To fit with topic of historic figures generally, or writers specifically.
- Following remedial work on simple past, in context of famous person’s biography.
Plan components
Lesson plan: download
Worksheet 01: download
Worksheet 02: download
By Richard Lunt
The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer.
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