Module teaching and integrating language skills lesson 1

Activity 1 A Task
Objective: to expose students to a typical task
Time: 45 min
Materials: Handout 1, Handout 2
Procedure:

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  Tell students that they will now experience a task-based lesson.
  
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  Show the picture on handout 1. Ask students if they know what building it is. Elicit as much information as possible.
  

  Answer: The building is The Empire State Building, a 103-story skyscraper located in New York City. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high. The Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 23rd-tallest in the world (the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai). It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.

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  Tell students this lesson is based on a true story which was reported in The Guardian newspaper a few years ago.
  
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  Write down the headline on the board: