While preparing for my session on exam classes with teenagers that I’m giving at the APPI conference this weekend, I stumbled upon this peer teaching activity gathering dust in my Google Drive. It’s designed to have C2 students teach each other some expressions that can come up in the use of English part 4. Check it out:
Category: Proficiency Reading & UoE
C2: Reading & Vocabulary – My Friend Kevin
This is a lesson plan designed for C2 students in which they read a text about a man and his impulsive friend Kevin. It’s designed for students preparing for Cambridge C2 Proficiency exam as it offers some exam practice for reading part 7 and introduces some expressions that may appear in use of English part 4. Download the student handout and answer key below:
The lesson procedure is pretty straightforward:
- Pre-reading: students are introduced to the characters and predict what might happen in the story.
- Gist reading: students read the text quickly to check if their predictions were correct.
- Detailed reading/exam practice: students read again and complete the reading part 7 task.
- Vocabulary focus: students discuss the meaning of the expressions in bold, make a note of them and then test each other.
- Recall: students turn the handout over and attempt to recall the expressions using version 2 as a prompt. This replicates what they’re required to do in use of English part 4.
- Part 4 practice: students cover the text and attempt the key word transformation questions. Alternatively, these could be set for homework.
- React & Extend: students react to the text and attempt to continue it with their ideas about what Kevin and the narrator got up to next.