GRANGE SCHOOL

1. GRANGE SCHOOL On line Support Class Lesson 1 Subject: First Language English Cambridge IGCSE 0500 Year 10

2. Reading [Scanning] • Topic: Scanning • Prior Learning: Students demonstrated understanding of skimming. • Before the Lesson: Studied responses to comprehension questions. • DO NOW(5MINUTES): Examine the pictures in the slide and sequence these to tell a story. • Starter(5 MINUTES):Write 10 words that can be describe London.

3. What’s the Story?Demonstration • Examine these pictures and sequence these to tell a story.

4. Objectives/ Outcomes Objectives: • To know how to read and understand a text(Grade E/D). • To understand how to select sections of a text that are relevant to questions.(Grade D/C). • To be able to make relevant annotations and find appropriate information in a text( Grade C/B) • To be a able to quickly understand the focus of a text, make precise annotations and select a full range of the most appropriate information from a text (Grade A/A*).

5. Main Lesson: Skimming Steps to Skimming • With the aid of your dictionary, write the meaning of skimming. • Read the stories in slides 5 and 6. • Write down key words that help your understanding of the passages. • Attempt the questions on each slide. • Read the stories in slides 7 and 8. • With the aid of your dictionary, write down the meaning of annotation. • Attempt the questions on slides 7 and 8. • From the annotations on slides 7 and 8 what effects do the writer’s choice of language have on you?

6. Skimming 1 You have one minute to skim through the passage. Afterwards, write down key points from the passage in bullets. My aunt is really old; she was born in the 1930s and behaves as if she still lives in that decade. She wears strange, old-fashioned clothes and has old-fashioned attitudes, believing that children should keep out of sight. Her house also looks really out of date. There isn’t any central heating, instead she lights a fire in the fireplace and expects that to heat the whole house. It’s always freezing. She doesn’t use an electric kettle, preferring to boil a steel one over the fire, and she hasn’t got a washing machine so everything is done by hand.

7. Skimming 2 You have one minute to skim through the passage. Afterwards, write down key points from the passage in bullets. London is a brilliant city; I love spending my weekends there. There is an amazing range of things to see and do: shopping, dining, theatre and cinema, museums and galleries, famous monuments, nightclubs, etc. The list really is endless! I also enjoy trying to spot famous people and once saw David Beckham in Harrods. It was really strange seeing a celebrity buying a pair of socks. Although London is really busy, it’s easy to get around. There are lots of taxis around, or you can travel on the bus or tube. Now and again, there are traffic jams or the tube breaks down, but this is part of the fun.

8. Skimming and annotating 1 Q4 In the passage below, the two paragraphs could be annotated to show two sets of information. What would you write where? Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of

9. Skimming and annotating 2 But there was also the view, which again could appear on no inventory. How could any such list describe what one saw when one looked out from Mma Ramotswe’s door? To the front, an acacia tree, the thorn tree which dots the wide edges of the Kalahari; the great white thorns, a warning; the olive-grey leaves, by contrast, so delicate. In its branches, in the late afternoon, or in the cool of the early morning, one might see a Go-Away Bird, or hear it, rather. And beyond the acacia, over the dusty road, the roofs of the town under a cover of trees and scrub bush; on the horizon, in a blue shimmer of heat, like improbable, overgrown termite mounds.