Teenage Heroes reading comprehension
Junior High School Year 3 (Lesson 37)
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Teacher’s notes and lesson plan
The objective of this lesson is to practise reading comprehension about a topic of general interest — teenagers who did amazing things.
Starter question: How old do you need to be to change the world? Who is your hero?
Give the two worksheets to the students. Get the students to read out a paragraph, sentence by sentence, then go over any vocab as necessary.
Get the students to write the answers to the questions
Have the students call out their answers.
Use the final question as a speaking exercise for students to use the vocab from the lesson.
This lesson was adapted from the Tower Talk Junior High 3 textbook available here.
Worksheets
Tower Talk Junior High 3 is intended for non-native learners of English, typically in their third year of junior high school. But the book is designed to be of equal use to the child studying English at home with the help of a parent English-speaker. Tower Talk Junior High 1 provides
45 clearly structured lessons that children take throughout one year of study.
Each lesson is presented over a double-page spread that is designed to be the main element of a 45-minute class or home-study lesson.
The textbook examples of target language are on the left of every lesson, with the workbook exercises for students to complete typically on the right.
The lessons in this book are organised into groups of two following a topic, such as travel, school or entertainment.
The first of each lesson is a sample speech with options for students to change to make their own speech on the topic.
The second lesson is designed to focus on grammar or vocabulary with a chance to use new forms through prompts to write and speak.
Each lesson is designed to build on students’ existing knowledge and expose them to new language structures that they can make their own with practice.
At the same time, students are following a syllabus that will give them a thorough foundation in English, covering every major grammar form they will encounter in their third year of junior high school.
The Tower Talk syllabus complements the Oxford University Press Let’s Go series (popular with private schools) and the Sunshine series that 40% of all junior high school students in Japan use to learn English, but with some major differences: A clearer focus on what the student can learn lesson by lesson, which helps the teacher and parent alike know what the student is doing in the classroom. Four “Homestay” lessons are spread through the book to offer review practice for students with the theme of useful communicative language for their likely first experiences of speaking English outside of the classroom. Even while learning grammar and doing reading exercises, the focus is on building up a store of useful English expressions that students can use in realistic situations to communicate through building their active skills of speaking and writing.