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Good Communication
B1 Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students learn to express their opinions about communication methods. They also learn to speculate about the present and the future and about consequences with regard to information media.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To develop and enhance the students' speaking skills.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice
  • To provide reading and listening to the gist and to practice the newly acquired vocabulary

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Write Email on the board and create a mind map. Ask students to come to the board and write words or thoughts they associate with email.

Reading for Main Idea (1-2 minutes) • To practice reading for gist and to enhance students' engagement to the topic and to awake interest.

Ask the students about the book cover. Ask for the meaning of the title. Let students guess about the content of the article.

Reading for Main Idea (2-3 minutes) • To practice reading for gist and to enhance students' engagement to the topic and to awake interest.

Ask the students to answer the questions of exercise 2 in pairs. Ask students CCQ's to check understanding. Then discuss the answers briefly in class.

Listening for Main Idea (1-1 minutes) • To enhance students' listening skills and to provide ideas for the upcoming productive task

Ask students about the picture: Where do you think are they working? What kind of job do they have? Write company on board and ask for another word for it.

Listening for Main Idea (3-5 minutes) • To enhance students' listening skills and to provide ideas for the upcoming productive task

Ask the difference between Intranet and Internet. Tell the students to read the questions and ask them to answer these questions after having played the recording to them in pairs.

Feedback and Error Correction (0-1 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Give the students the script of the listening task and let them check briefly.

Useful Language (3-4 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Ask students to read the sentences from exercise 4 and let them decide which are against and which are for the ban. Work in pairs.

Feedback (1-2 minutes) • To provide students feedback

Check the answers in class and let the students repeat a few useful sentences/expressions after you.

Productive Task(s) (8-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Tell students the situation for the upcoming debate/discussion. Divide the class into two groups A/B (A is for and B is against). Ask them to write at least three reasons to support their argument. Before they start, write useful expressions on the board.

Productive Task (5-6 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Ask the students to mingle (each one of group A and B come together and discuss their ideas). Make notes while monitoring.

Productive Task (3-5 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Ask a few students to write their arguments on board. Let students vote for the most convincing arguments (for and against)

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