Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Teacher Wilma 04 October 2020 Upper – intermediate 60 Minutes
Lesson Type:
Four skills – reading.
Lesson Topic:
Three Ways Social Media Negatively Affects Your Mental Health.
Lesson Aims: Lesson Outcomes:
By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… By the end of the lesson, students will have…
• To comprehend a piece of writing through making use of • Read about and discussed the topic of three ways social
reading techniques which increases in levels of attention to media can negatively affect your mental health.
detail for example “reading for gist” to “reading for detail”. • Identified more specific details or information in the text.
• Inferred meanings of unfamiliar terms.
• Made predictions and conclusions based on the text
• Learnt new vocabulary
• Used academic vocabulary correctly both in terms of
speaking and writing and identified the main points in the
text.
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,Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions:
1. Students may have difficulty understanding certain 1. I will ensure that there is enough reading time to allow for
vocabulary elements in the passage since they are Spanish students to read the article as many times as they need to
and monolingual, especially when it comes to more complex and encourage them to read for understanding which will
words. work on their comprehension skills. I will then revise
sections that are particularly difficult for students to help
Spanish students may struggle with specific pronunciations, them with recognition and drawing conclusions from the
because there is no distinction between long and short text. I will repeat the words that students struggle with and
vowels in their language and they find it difficult to utter then establish the words with the students by having them
certain diphthongs such as /eɪ/ in “great” and /aɪ/ in “right”. repeat after me until they are doing it correctly. I will use
the phonemic chart to further explain the pronunciation of
the words and sounds.
2. The students all share the same L1, which means they might 2. I will make it clear that only English is to be spoken in the
be inclined to speak in their L1’s to each other instead of class room, especially during group work. If a student should
English. struggle to find a word or need assistance with saying
something – he/she may ask for help from me or another
student but must then repeat the word or phrase in English
so he will know what the word/phrase is or how to
pronounce a word for future use.
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, 3. I will ensure that the more socially inclined students be
paired with more work-driven/focused students in order to
3. The students are all young adults very close to each other’s motivate them to work instead of being socially active. I will
ages and may feel excited to be around people their age. also ask the students to turn off their smartphones so that it
They might want to converse with each other and that won’t be a distraction to themselves and other students.
could make them pay less attention to the lesson being
presented.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
SIX WAYS SOCIAL MEDIA NEGATIVELY AFFECTS YOUR MENTAL HEALTH
(Shortened and adapted passage – Only 3 points taken from passage).
While social media platforms can have their benefits, using them too frequently can make you feel increasingly unhappy and isolated in
the long run.
The constant barrage of perfectly filtered photos that appear on Instagram are bound to knock many people’s self-esteem, while
obsessively checking your Twitter feed just before bed could be contributing towards poor quality of sleep.
Here are six three ways that social media could be negatively affecting your mental health without you even realising.
Sleep
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