Name of the Teacher Date Level of the class Length of lesson
Xikombiso 18 April 2021 B2 60 minutes
Lesson Type:
Reading
Lesson Topic:
The influence of social media on the evolution of English.
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 gain an understanding of a piece of writing through employing Establish their understanding of the text via completing two
reading techniques which increase in levels of focus e.g. ‘reading activities: 1) Match the Headline/Title 2) answering and discussing
for gist’ to ‘reading for detail’. questions with a partner regarding the details of the passage.
Anticipated difficulties: Suggested solutions😊
1. Students might get stuck with some new words while 1. The teacher will teach a few select vocabulary words that
reading the text and therefore be unable to find answers to are in the text that might be difficult for students to
detailed questions understand (regeneration) before the class is assigned the
reading
2. Student may find it difficult to establish between the true
and false statements. 2. The teacher will make sure that the students have enough
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, time to complete the activity. The T will also use positive
3. Some students may fail to understand the tense and reinforcement to encourage disheartened students.
grammar pretext of the target vocabulary within the text
e.g. deny: verb – denied (past tense), in the text it is in its 3. Within Presentation (MFP), special care will be taken to
present continuous form ‘denying’. highlight the fact that they ma appear conjugated within
the text and not in their basic form. The basic form will
obviously be presented to them during this stage.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording)
There can be no denying that social media has a significant impact on the ways that we communicate. Its ever-evolving nature leaves
our language in a continuous state of alteration and regeneration. Facebook, for example, as one of the leading social media platforms
in the world, has made itself a near necessity for connecting with loved ones, friends, colleagues and acquaintances around the globe.
With over 829 million daily users, according to Facebook’s newsroom, it has transformed our ability to stay in touch with those who
would otherwise be out of reach, and it has allowed its users to have a closer tie with a growing number of people who share common
interests and backgrounds, thus producing a social network far beyond anything we could have ever imagined.
Social media impacts our language by altering the meaning of some of our vocabulary. Let’s take Pinterest, for example. Built to allow
its users to mark and sort interesting, new ideas, the social media platform has changed the way we view the words “pin,” “pinning”
and “pinned.” We know these words to be representative of a physical pin with which we are able to pin a project or paper to a
corkboard. Here, in the online world, “pinning” is descriptive of a similar concept, just to a board that only exists digitally. We then
hear our social media cohorts saying things like, “Check out my pin,” or “I was pinning this morning while I had my coffee.”
Just as social media alters the usage of our language, so, too, does it introduce new usage and vocabulary. With the need for quick and
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