Description:

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Level: A2

Israeli level: pre-basic1, pre-basic2

Target audience: all college level students

General goals/objectives: (reading comprehension; listening; speaking)

Specific goals/objectives:

1. Read and understand a short entry about relationships
2. Listen to a song and elicit relevant vocabulary
3. Discuss what people consider as rules of dating

Materials needed for activity: (check the following)

• Internet access
• projector
• loudspeaker

Time: 60 minutes

Procedure:

Read a short article about friendships, answer reading comprehension questions about this article, listen to a song, and discuss what people consider as rules of dating.

Activity 1

1. Students read the the entry Friendships in simple wikipedia and answer questions 1-3.
2. Check and discuss answers.

Activity 2

1. Students predict which words are going to be found in a song relating to friendship.
2. Students listen to a song Anytime you need a friend and write down words from the song.
3. Check and discuss answers.

Activity 3

1. Students watch a scene from Friends on YouTube.
2. Students discuss the rules of dating, that is, whether it is OK to date someone your friend had dated first.

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1. Reception / Reading; Overall reading comprehension; Can understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a concrete type which consist of high frequency everyday or job-related language (A2+)
2. Reception / Reading; Reading for information and argument; Can identify specific information in simpler written material he/she encounters such as letters, brochures and short newspaper articles describing events (A2)
3. Reception / Listening; Listening to audio-visual; can identify the main point of TV news items reporting events, accidents, etc. where the visual supports the commentary (A2+)
4. Interaction / Spoken; Information exchange; can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information. Can ask and answer questions about personal opinions (A2)

[/tabcontent][tabcontent]By the end of this LO, you should be able to:

• read and understand a short entry about Friendship
• elicit and discuss related vocabulary in this field
• interact with your peers and discuss the rules of dating

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