Date:  

Class: 2nd grade  

Unit: 2

Lesson: 2  

OBJECTIVES:

1st.Check the homework.

2nd.Review the previous lesson.

3rd.Practise scanning.

4th. Practise silent reading.

TEACHING AIDS:

some cards.

ACTIVITIES:

A. (05m)

B. (05m)

C. (10m)

D. (10m)

E. (10m)

·       Open WB/7, read the whole sentence answers, S spell aloud the chosen words.

·       Open PB/10-11, ask: What is the subject of the reading? ....... Look at the pics, ask: What can you see? The Ministry of post, telegraphs and telephones......    the postal code (P 10).....     and electronic sorters, post office boxes and efficient counter service (P 11)

·       How many paragraphs are there? 6

·       Look at the first sentence from each paragraph, ask: What do you think the (1st paragraph) about?

Þ   Parag 1: The Saudi postal service in the past.

Þ   Parag 2: The modern Saudi postal system.

Þ   Parag 3: The quantity of mail

Þ   Parag 4: Express mail service

Þ   Parag 5: Electronic mail

Þ   Parag 6: Future services (from intends)

·       S look at the passage, ask: Can you see a year in (paragraph 1)?Write all the years in the passage on the board. Then ask one Q with all those years: How many items were handled in (1986)?

  1.  in 1986: (713 million, L:8)

  2.  in 1970: (80 million, L:9)

  3.  in 1986: (79.783.590, L:9)

  4.  in 1985: (260.290, L:20)

  5.  in 1986: (525.940, L:20)

  6.  What happened in 1984? (The PTT introduced an express mail service, L: 19) 

  7.  What happened in 1983?(A post code system was introduced, L: 15-16)

·       Write 5 Q,s on the board, S look at the Q's and write the para and line # (without the answers)

1st)What has grown a lot in a short time? P.2, L:4-6 (the very advanced postal system)

2nd)How many letters can a sorting machine handle? P.3, L:12-13 (30.000 letters per hour

3rd)How many Saudi towns receive express mail? P.4, L:21 (26 Saudi towns)

4th)What can reach the receiver in seconds? P.5, L:24-25 (electronic mail)

5th)What can we look forward to? P. 6, L:30-31. (even faster and more efficient mail delivery)

·       I'll read the passage aloud, S should underline the unknown words, S finish any sentence.

·       I'll introduce the following words:

Þ   national: not just parts or regions

Þ   manage (v): to manage is to control

Þ   sort: put the letters in groups.

Þ   computerize: to make a machine use computer technology.

Þ   receive: to get

Þ   receiver: (a person/ thing) that gets, or receives.....

Þ   telecommunications: far

Þ   enlarge: = bigger (to make or become larger)

HOMEWORK:

Nothing.