Tuğba Kaya Tuğba Kaya

Tuğba Kaya, Writing-Reading
Elementary, A1 level

Description

In this lesson, the students practice reading about other people’s favorite things and writing about their favorite things. First, the teacher talks about her favorite thing. Then she gives other examples of people’s favorite things. On PPT, she shows pictures of some possessions of people. Students see the pictures and tell the names. The teacher asks some questions about these things using adjectives. She writes the adjectives with opposites on the board. She also writes some sentences that the students can use as models in their writing. After that, she shows all the pictures alltogether and then asks a student to pick a picture out of the box. She asks the student some questions about the thing in the picture and tries to guess it. She chooses another student to pick a picture. The class tries to guess the thing in the picture by asking questions. Then the students read short texts about the favorite things of three people. They first match the texts with the people’s photos. Next they answer some comprehension questions about the texts in complete sentences. After that, they fill in a table about their favorite thing. They use the notes in the table and write about their favorite thing on cards to post on Pinterest. They make use of the adjectives and the sample sentences on the board. They stick their cards on the cardboard on the board. Then all the students read the cards and write comments under them.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To practise writing for fluency in the context of favorite possessions.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practise reading for gist and specific information in the context of favorite things.

Procedure

Lead-in, pre-teaching vocabulary (15 minutes) • To set a context of favorite possessions of people and provide useful language for writing about favorite things.

T starts the lesson talking about her favorite possession. S/he mentions other favorite things showng several pictures of possessions on PPT to give ideas and remind the ss of possessions’ names. T shows the pictures and the ss tell the names. T shows the words after eliciting the things names. Meanwhile, T asks some questions using adjectives with their opposites so that the ss can use these adjectives in their writing. T writes these adjectives and sentences on the board to model useful language for the ss’ writing on the board. Thus ss learn some object names and adjectives used to describe these things. Then T shows all the pictures on one slide. S/he asks a student to pick a picture of these pictures out of the box. S/he tries to guess what’s in the picture asking Yes/No questions. Then S/he chooses another student to pick a picture. The class tries to guess the thing in the picture by asking similar questions. This task continues with some other students picking pictures.

Pre-writing (10 minutes) • To read for gist and specific information about people’s favorite possessions.

The ss read short texts about the favorite things of three people. They first match the texts with the people’s photos, so they read for gist. Next for specific information they answer some comprehension questions about the texts in complete sentences. Thus they write their first sentences about the topic in a controlled way. They answer the questions alone, and then they compare answers in pairs. Then T gives class feedback.

While writing (15 minutes) • To write for fluency.

The ss fill in a table about their favorite thing to be used as a guide for their writing. They use the notes in the table and write about their favorite thing on cards to post on Pinterest. They make use of the adjectives and the sample sentences on the board. They can also use the texts they have just read as a model. They already have a model text given along with the table. While the students write, the teacher monitors them and provides help when needed.

Post writing (5 minutes) • To read the peers’ pieces of writing and write comments about them.

Upon finishing writing, they stick their cards on the cardboard titled Pinterest on the board. Then all the students read the cards and write comments under them. They write if they like that thing or not.

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