ABDELKARIM EL-KHATTABI MIDDLE SCHOOL Teacher: HIBA BENALLAL Level: 7th Grade

Unit 3: Lesson 3: DEAR Topic(s): The friendship of Baboon and the Crocodile Timing: 60 min
Integrated skills: Speaking Materials: Textbook / Whiteboard
Objectives: By the lesson, Students will:
 Become more motivated to make reading a priority in their lives.
 Use illustrations to predict what a story will be about / to predict what will happen
in a story.

STAGES ACTIVITIES INTERACTION MODE OF

WORK
 Teacher and students greet each other.
(5 min)
Warm-

 T and Ss review the previous lesson. (Numbers)

Up

 T asks Ss to look at the picture in Activity A page 70 T-Ss Individual

and describe what they see. Ss-T
 Ss name the things in the picture using the words Individual
given in the activity.
Pre-reading
(15 min)

 In pairs, Ss take turns in saying a word from the Ss-Ss

picture and the other student has to point to the thing Pair work
in the picture.
 Ss answer the three questions in activity C page 71 in Ss-Ss Pair work
pairs.
 Ss give their answers and the T writes some of them Ss-T
on the board to be checked later in the reading stage.
 T reads the story with enthusiasm using varied tones
and expressive gestures while Ss are following on T-Ss
their books.
(30 min)
Reading

 T asks Ss to read the story silently and check the

Ss-T Individual
answers written on the board.
 T and Ss read the story collectively; the T is the T-Ss
narrator and each student chooses a character. Ss-T Group work
Ss-Ss
 Ss show how much they liked the story by coloring Ss-T Individual
Post-reading

the stars and saying the number of stars colored.

(10 min)

 Ss express how they felt about the story by circling

Ss-T Individual
the appropriate face and saying the feeling.
 Ss choose a new word from the story and draw it.
 Ss share their drawings. Ss-Ss