Period 8 Study skills
Teaching goals
1. To develop sorting and categorizing skills
2. To develop an understanding of relationships between a variety of words and ideas
3. To categorize vocabulary and ideas according to different types of information
Step 1 Greeting & warming up
Step 2 presenting
Talk about categorization. Explain that putting things in categories helps us keep them organized. Ask Ss if they keep their CDs in categories, and if so, ask how they sort them. Explain that there are different ways of sorting things. For example, a CD collection can be sorted by title, name of singer, type of music, etc.
Step 3 Practicing
1. Ask Ss to look at the words in the word box in Part A. Explain that the words can be divided into three categories. Ask Ss to put the words from the box under the correct headings in Part A.
2. Write the headings on the board. Ask Ss to call out the words from the box that belong to each category. Ask more able Ss to add extra words to each category.
3. Ask Ss to look at the heading in Part B. Tell them to re-order the word from Part A and put them under the correct headings in Part B. Ask more able Ss to put the extra words they added in Part A under the correct headings in Part B.
4. Write the headings on the board. Ask Ss to call out the words from the box that belong to each category.
5. Talk about the need to sort and organize ideas, main points and keywords when writing compositions, articles, reports, letters or stories. Explain the instructions to Part C. Ss organize topics for a composition so that ideas flow from beginning to end.
6. Ask Ss to complete Part C on their own. Check to complete Part C on their own. Check answers as a class.
Step 4 Game
Divide the class into five teams. Give each team a card showing these headings: vegetable, sports, colors, cities, items of clothing, fruit, jobs, animals, countries and weather words. Write the following list of words on the board. Tell each team to work together to put all the words into the right category.
The team which fills in their card first correctly is the winner.
Answers
vegetables Sports Colours cities Items of clothing
Fruit Jobs Animals Countries Weather words
Step 5 Homework