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Generation Gap

Title: “Our Generation”

Galina Faustova
School-gymnasium #10, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan
E-mail: si6226f@mail.ru

Language level of students: Intermediate
Age group: 16-17
Time: 60 minutes
Skills / aspects focus: speaking, reading, vocabulary.
Vocabulary: Idiomatic expressions and words of Every-day English.
Resources and materials: authentic texts written by American teenagers –participants of I*EARN (International Education and Resource Network), Mind Works Learning Society, high level (2004).

PROCEDURE

Pre-activity
Brainstorm the word “Generation”

Activities

  1. Read Text 1 and work out the questions basing on the answers in every paragraph.
  2. Finding out a controlling idea and figuring out the ways how the author supports it in Text 2.
  3. Group work (Texts 3-6). Divide your class into 4 groups and give each group a different text. Every group must read the text given, complete  a Venn diagram, and present it to the class.

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