Teaching contents | Procedures | Purposes |
Teacher’s activity | Students’ activity |
Activity 1 | - Teacher asks students to look at the messages and answer the questions.
- Teacher invites some students to give answers.
| - Students look at the messages and answer the questions.
- Some students give answers.
| To lead students into the topic of emojis. |
Activity 2 | - Teacher asks students to look at the title of the passage and predict the author’s attitude towards emojis.
- Teacher asks students to work in groups and discuss the question. Then invites some students to share their answers.
- Teacher asks students to read the passage and check their prediction.
| - Students look at the title of the passage and predict the author’s attitude towards emojis.
- Students work in groups and discuss the question. Some students share their answers.
- Students read the passage and check their prediction.
| To strengthen students’ ability to predict. |
Activity 3 | - Teacher asks students to read the passage again and get the main idea.
- Teacher asks students to discuss in groups, choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage and give their reasons.
- Teacher invites some students to give answers.
| - Students read the passage again and get the main idea.
- Students discuss in groups, choose the author’s purpose in writing the passage and give their reasons.
- Some students give answers.
| To help students to grasp the main idea and the author’s writing purpose. |
Think & Share | - Teacher asks students to think about the questions and discuss them in groups.
- Teacher invites some students to give answers.
| - Students think about the questions and discuss them in groups.
- Some students give answers.
| To enhance students’ understanding of emojis’ wide usage and encourage students to show their own opinions. |
Activity 4 | - Teacher divides students into groups and asks them to discuss the meaning of the sentence from the passage.
- Teacher asks students to prepare for the talk. And asks students to pay attention to the “Learning to learn”.
- Teacher invites several students to give their talk to the class and others to make comments.
- Teacher asks students to think about what they have learnt from the opinions of their classmates and whether they helped to change their opinion in any way.
| - Students work in groups and discuss the meaning of the sentence from the passage.
- Students prepare for the talk and pay attention to the “Learning to learn”.
- Some students give their talk to the class and others make comments.
- Students think about what they have learnt from the opinions of their classmates and whether they helped to change their opinion in any way.
| - To help students learn to be able to justify their opinions.
- To improve students’ speaking skill and performance ability.
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Activity 5 | - Teacher asks students to read the passage and think about the questions.
- Teacher divides the class into groups and asks them to discuss the three questions in groups.
- Teacher invites one or two groups to share their answers and give reasons, and others to make comments.
| - Students read the passage and think about the questions.
- Students discuss the questions in groups.
- One or two groups share their answers and give reasons, and others make comments.
| To help students learn how to write a passage about something that will disappear in the future. |
Activity 6 | - Teacher asks students to think about something that might disappear in the future and complete the table.
- Teacher asks students to write their own passages according to the content in the table.
| - Students think about something that might disappear in the future and complete the table.
- Students write their own passages according to the content in the table.
| To help students organise their thoughts before writing a passage. |
Activity 7 | - Teacher divides students into pairs and asks them to make improvements to each other’s passages.
- Teacher invites one or two pairs to share their answers to the class and others to make comments.
| - Students work in pairs and make improvements to each other’s passages.
- One or two pairs share their answers with the class and others make comments.
| - To encourage students to learn from their partners.
- To improve students’ writing and speaking skills.
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