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1. I think this text is suitable for students. Since it is very entertaining. I can even
assign the novel for them to read. (Why not?) The text have been adapted to films,
radio and we can squeeze so much juice of it. Not just for a reading activity, also for
visual activity or an listening activity. I also consider entertaining for the students
the last essay. Ask students what they would do if the world only had 12 minutes of
life. A central theme in the first chapter of the novel. To use of the tutor. I put the
introduction of the novel with this work plan. Also for the tutor I put the 4 questions
(with the answers) that students would answer in my quiz.
YOUR NAME Hector Perez Babilonia
ASSIGNMENT Name
and Number
Teaching Reading. Module 6
CLASS LEVEL: Advanced
VENUE: 17 to 18 year old students, 12th grade students in a Chilean public
elementary school.
SKILLS: Listening, reading and writing.
AIMS/OBJECTIVES
:
By the end of this class, Ss will be able to identify the main ideas from a
the introduction of a novel, they will be able to make a small quiz with gist
questions and detailed questions; in class and write a short essay, that
will reinforce the comprehension of the text.
ASSUMPTIONS Students will be able to comprehend the text and the main ideas of the
text; they will learn how to write the new vocabulary given and be able to
write about the text using their own words. They will be able to
comprehend the text and discuss it in class.
ANTICIPATED
PROBLEMS:
Problems with understanding the vocabulary.
Problems to comprehend pronunciation.
Grammar errors on essays.
OVERVIEW : The students will identify the main ideas and details from a text by
Douglas Adams, they will have a hard copy of the text and they will listen
to author read the text in the first 4min of a video from youtube
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiSstGhCaBs). Students will learn
vocabulary; they will review and give their opinions about the text, anwer
a small quiz in class with some gist questions and detailed quiestions and
write on an index card a very small essay.
ACTIVITY DETAILS: MATER-
IALS
INTERACTION TIMING OBJECTIVE
PRESENTATION/ Pre-
Teaching
Who is Douglas Adams?
Where he was born? What
has he wrote?
Teachers
notes about
the author.
PowerPoint.
Teacher to
Student and
Student to
Teacher
10-20 min. The students will
learn about the
author and his
works as a writer.
PRACTICE
The T will pass to all S a
hard copy of a text. S will
read and listen the text witch
is an introduction of the
novel The Hitchhiker's Guide
to the Galaxy by Douglas
Adams. Once the S have the
text the T will play the audio
of the text for them. After the
students listen and read the
text the T will ask them to
give their opinions about the
text.
Computer
with access
to Internet,
PowerPoint,
projector,
speakers
and copies
from the
introduction
of the novel
The
Hitchhiker's
Guide to
the Galaxy
by Douglas
Adams
T>S, S>T 20 mins S will read and
listen to the texta
nd be able to
argue about the
text.
Quiz
The T will give them a quiz
of the text. The T will tell the
S to answer the questions of
the quiz using the text as a
reference.
Quiz T>S, S>T 15-20 mins S will used the
text to answer the
gist questions and
detailed questions
from the given
quiz.
Writing activity
The T will assign S in pairs
and give them index cards.
The T will ask the S to write
a small essay using the text
Index cards
and pencils.
T>S, S>S 20 mins To use new
vocabulary, use
imagination and
creativity

2. as a reference. The T will
ask them: What will you do
if the planet Earth has only
12 minutes of life?
PRODUCTION
The S will read the essay in
front of the class. If
corrections needed, the T
will hold them until end of
report.
Index cards
with written
essays
T>S, S>T 20 mins Review Students'
production
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by
Douglas Adams
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an
utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms
are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty
neat idea.
This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of
the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions
were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned
with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because
on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and
most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big
mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said
that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever
have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man
had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to
people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in
Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong
all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and
happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to
get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about

3. it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.
But it is the story of that terrible stupid catastrophe and some of its
consequences.
It is also the story of a book, a book called The Hitch Hiker's Guide to
the Galaxy - not an Earth book, never published on Earth, and until the
terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or heard of by any Earthman.
Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book. In fact it was probably the
most remarkable book ever to come out of the great publishing houses of
Ursa Minor - of which no Earthman had ever heard either. Not only is it a
wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one - more popular
than the Celestial Home Care Omnibus, better selling than Fifty More Things to
do in Zero Gravity, and more controversial than Oolon Colluphid's trilogy of
philosophical blockbusters Where God Went Wrong, Some More of God's Greatest
Mistakes and Who is this God Person Anyway?
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of
the Galaxy, the Hitch Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great
Encyclopedia Galactic a as the standard repository of all knowledge and
wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is
apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more
pedestrian work in two important respects.
First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic
inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
But the story of this terrible, stupid Thursday, the story of its
extraordinary consequences, and the story of how these consequences are
inextricably intertwined with this remarkable book begins very simply.
It begins with a house.
Quiz
Anwser the following questions from the text:
1) What was the problem that had the most people of Earth?
“most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time”
2) In what day a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred?
“Thursday”
3) What is the best selling book in the galaxy? Why?
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” “First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has
the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.”
4) Which, according to your opinion, would the catastrophe that would
affect Earth on that particular Thursday?

4. Earth will be destroid by aliens.