Name of the Teacher

Name of the Teacher	Date		Level of the class	Length of lesson
Nafisa	The 3^rd of october		Upper-intermediate	60 minutes
Lesson Type: Reading
Lesson Topic: New shark species with Human-like teeth discovered in Australia
Lesson Aims: By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to… To know an understanding of piece of writing through reading techniques which increase in levels of focus e.g. ‘reading for gist’ to ‘reading for detail’ Understand and utilize the text by reading for gist and specific information		Lesson Outcomes: By the end of the lesson, students will have… Demonstrated their comprehension of the text by completing following activities: 1) quoting text to support the text and 2) answering and discussing questions with a partner regarding thw details of the passage Practiced to understand the main meaning and find information in details from the text by doing activities and tasks.
Anticipated difficulties: Students may have difficulties with new vocabulary notes and their pronunciations. May have some problems with terms, e.g. gills, mollusc, genus. This could cause problems when reading larger, more complex sentences. Some students may have difficulties with every aspect of the text or don’t understand the meaning of the word and the structure of the grammar. The age of students is different in the class.		Suggested solutions: Teacher will write the written forms of words on the board and give definitions of new words with their transcriptions. The lesson is structured as a gradual increase in information uptake going from predicting to reading for gist. It would be easier to students to slowly pick apart sentences, so students arrive at an eventual understanding. Teacher will show new words with visual aids like pictures for avoiding misunderstanding. Teacher will try to make it clear that the goal of the lesson is to improve students reading skills. So, students will be able to extract important pieces of information not all the aspect. Teacher will use elicit method.
Authentic Text (insert reading text here or link to the listening recording) New shark species with Human-like teeth discovered in Australia Down in the deep waters of the north-eastern Australian coast, you might be lucky enough to come across brand new species of shark. The painted hornshark (Heterodontus marshallae) is a newly described species that belongs to the order Heterodontiformes, characterized by their unusual human-like morals. Heterodontiformes is an order with only one genus and nine different species within. However, genetic analysis performed on one of the species, thought to be Heterodontus zebra, shows it was actually genetically different, and therefore brings the species in this order to 10. How this species has gone unnoticed for so long might be because of the similarities in the patterns and markings on the shark’s skin that are slightly different between species. Heterodontus zebra has a dark bar behind the gills slits, which is absent in the new species. “Both species are pale with 22 dark brown bands and saddles. But they have small differences in the markings on their snouts and below their Gills slits. Their egg cases are also different,” said Dr Will White research scientist at the Australian National Fish Collection (ANFC) in a statement. The new species was described first by comparing museum specimens. By chance, research vessel surveying seabed habitats with the ANFC in western Australia found a living specimen of the new species that was able to be the reference for the species’ scientific name. “We have a female specimen in our collection, but the one we collected during the voyage is a male. We prefer to use males for shark holotypes because they have claspers, which are external reproductive organs, that can vary between species and help us tell them apart.” said Helen O’Neill, fish biologist at ANFC. The painted horn sharks live at depths of 125 to 229 meters (410 to 751 feet) and, while they have the typical shark teeth in rows at the front of their mouths, they have a more human-like morphology of molars behind the rows. This adaptation allows the sharks to crush prey like crustaceans and molluscs. “They tend to sit on the sea floor and feed mainly on creatures like molluscs and crustaceans. They have a small mouth but crushing jaws that are huge relative to their skull size and powerful enough to crush cowrie shells.” said Helen.