Level : 1st year scientific streams.

Lesson plan : Reading comprehension.

Text : Robots.

Personal goals : classroom management/ motivating students to interact with the text

Lesson focus : Reading comprehension

Language skills : reading / writing

Competencies : Interpreting / interacting / producing.

Objectives : By the end of the lesson , students will be able to :
- Read and respond to a scientific text.
- Interact with a text about robots.
Required material : pictures / handouts / the board.

Time Rationale Interaction pattern Procedure

5mn -Introduce the topic
-Introduce vocabulary
Ts Warming up :
St T sticks pictures on the board and asks
Ss to describe.
T : What does the picture show ?
SS : Machines / robots.
T : What can a robot do ?
SS : give information / make work easier/
Less time /
T : What do you think the text is about ?
SS : Robots.

10mn Read for specific information ST Read §1 and §2 and complete the table
What is What does it What does it
it ? do ? look like ?
A machine -explores -some like
dangerous humans.
places. -most like
-cleans things. machines.
15mn Read for specific information ST Read §3 and §4 and answer the questions :
a- Did robots exist a long time ago ? Justify.
b- Will robots challenge man in some
activities ?Explain.
c- How do you think robots will make life
easier ?
Keys :a - No, they didn’t( they were imaginary.
b-Yes, they will .They will do things that we
can’t do.
c-Personal answers.
10mn -Identify the main idea. S S In which § would you add the following sentences :
-interact with the text. ST -They can even run cars. §2
-This will let us more time for family.§4
-It carries out complex. §1
-It was created by Georges Devol. §3
10mn -Information transfer SS T supplies SS with handouts : Diagram/ strips.
-Interact with the text. ST -Complete the diagram with information in the
- work in pairs. strips.

10mn -Producing SS -Use the diagram to write a short summary of the

-Summarizing. ST text.
Made of gold . Explore dangerous places.
Fight wars. Looked like an arm.
Made cars. Clean things.
Imaginary Make life better.

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Robots

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