LESSON

4 GOAL Discuss creative ways to achieve a goal

A READING WARM-UP Option: [+5 minutes] Focus students’ attention on the

Suggested 5 Your actual
title of the article. Ask Does the title suggest the main idea
teaching time: minutes teaching time: of the article? (Yes, the title “Facebook Saves the Day”
suggests that the article is about a problem that is resolved
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Ask a volunteer to read the question. On the board, write thanks to Facebook, which indeed it is.)
person’s attitude ➝ solve problem / achieve a goal.
Provide a scenario, for example, losing one’s job. Ask Extra Reading Comprehension Questions
How might an optimist / realist / pessimist approach the
problem? (Possible answers: an optimist would remain D UNDERSTAND MEANING FROM CONTEXT
positive and begin looking for a new job right away; a Suggested 5 Your actual
realist might acknowledge that finding a new job may teaching time: minutes teaching time:
not be easy but would do everything necessary to get ●
Call on volunteers to read the words. Ask students to
the process started; a pessimist might lose energy being
take a few minutes to decide if the words have positive or
angry or depressed or be worried about having lost the
negative connotations. Tell them not to write anything
job and then as a result be less focused on looking for a
down yet.
new job)
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Tell students to scan the article for the words. Remind
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Invite all students to share views. Then as a class
them that when they scan they don’t have to read the
decide which attitude(s) might be the most effective in
whole article again, just look for the specific words.
improving the situation.
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Then bring the class together. Ask students what in the
context led them to infer the meaning of each word. For
B 1:11 READING
example, for absent-minded, the fact that Phil left the
Suggested 10–15 Your actual
teaching time: minutes teaching time:
camera on top of the car and drove away would suggest
that he wasn’t paying attention to his actions, which is the
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Invite students to look at the photo and the title of the meaning of absent-minded.
article. Ask What does save the day mean? (to provide a
solution to a problem) Invite students to speculate what E SUMMARIZE
type of a problem related to this photo could have been
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resolved by Facebook. teaching time: minutes teaching time:
As students read and listen, tell them to underline
Write summary on the board. Elicit that a summary is
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information in the article that will help them answer

the focus question in the direction line (What was Phil
Cooper’s mistake?).
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Bring the class together. Have volunteers share their
answers to the focus question. (Possible responses: He
placed the camera on top of the car and then drove off.
The camera wasn’t in its case, which had his name and
address on it.)
LANGUAGE NOTE To take the cake means to be particularly
bad. To stash means to store. A snoop is a person who looks
around a place secretly hoping to find out information
about someone. A burst of creative thinking means suddenly
having a great idea.
Reading Strategies
C DETERMINE THE MAIN IDEA
Suggested 5 Your actual
teaching time: minutes teaching time:
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If necessary, review that the main idea of an article is the
most important idea. Call on volunteers to read each
statement. After each one ask Is the statement true?
(yes, for each one) Then have students mark the one that
encompasses the main idea.
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Invite students to share what they marked. Point out that
although items 1 and 3 are true statements and comment
on the problem, item 2 demonstrates how the problem
was resolved.
the author’s ideas restated in your own words. It gives
the overall main idea of the article and a few important
details. Ask Do you write your own opinion in a summary?
(no, just what is stated)
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Divide the class into pairs. On the board, write:
What happened?
Where did it happen?
To whom?
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Have students work with a partner to summarize the
story. Tell them to refer to the questions on the board to
guide them. Circulate and assist as necessary.
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Bring the class together and ask one pair to present their
summary. Write their sentence(s) on the board. Elicit any
outstanding important details. Question any information
that may not be necessary to the summary. Check that
there are no opinions included.
Challenge: [+5 minutes] Invite students to think about
the fact that Adam Secrest posted the picture on Facebook.
Ask Do you think someone might have a problem with what
he did? Why? (Possible answer: Someone might not have
wanted a picture of their kids posted online.) What would
you have done if you were Adam Secrest and found the
camera?
Extra Challenge Reading Activity

UNIT 1 LESSON 4 T10