1. The Battle Against AIDS
Review & Extension

2. Students: 1st-year English majors Time: 45 minutes
Course: English Intensive Reading
Students: 1st-year English majors
Time: 45 minutes
Purpose: to deepen the students’ understanding of the text through review and extension
Background: The students have finished learning the text.

3. Teaching procedures

4. Step 1
Activities
Objective
Time
Vocabulary Review
1. Students’ group work: “My favorite new words” (Choose – Explain why – Make sentences)
2. Vocabulary test: Blank filling
To get students motivated to practice using the newly learnt words & expressions.
15 mins

5. Step 2
Activities
Objectives
Time
Summary
1. Students’ pair work: to summarize the major points of the text part by part.
2. Class discussion: to report the summaries in three parts
3. Teacher: to give feedback on students’ reports.
To learn to summarize the main idea of the text.
To review the content for the mental preparation for the following oral activity.
10 mins

6. Step 3: Oral Extension
Group
Interviewer
Note-taker
Interviewee

7. Step 4: Homework Essay writing (about 100 words):
According to you, which of the suggested solutions is the most practical one? Why?