LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of the lesson are to:
- read and understand an article about a 14-year-old employee,
- work with collocations,
- improve speaking and critical thinking skills.
This CRC lesson focuses on the topic of talent, age and employment. Students discuss the advantages and disadvantages of being different ages, talk about prodigies, and discuss people who became famous when they were children.
This is a Critical Reading Club worksheet. With this format, students need to read an online article at home and do the exercises in the classroom. Learn more about how to use such worksheets and their benefits in our post.
ACTIVITIES
In the warm-up activity, students talk about different age groups and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each. The teacher can also decide to give students an additional task to work a bit with vocabulary. First, students choose correct collocations (e.g. tackle a person, miss out on social life, act with maturity, etc.). Then, they read a definition of a prodigy, look at the sentences and say whether the sentences describe a prodigy. After that, students think about the time when they were 14 and compare their lives to the boy’s from the article life. They also discuss questions and talk about employing young people. As a wrap-up activity, students discuss stories of famous children and talk about different aspects of their lives.