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Do's and Don'ts
Elementary, A2 level

Description

In this lesson, the students will improve their listening and speaking skills while they revise their previous class' topic; adverbs of frequency and imperatives. In the lead in stage, the ss will look at the pictures from the hand out and try to guess what they are about before they match the words and the pictures they have discussed about earlier. Afterwards, they will listen to the audios about the subject and complete the hand out the T gives. When they finish their hand out task, the students will get in groups and discuss what kind of conversations are okay to talk about when they meet a person for the first time. Lastly, they will get in pairs and discuss what topics are okay to discuss about in their countries.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about do's and don'ts in the context of first conversations

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide review of imperatives and adverbs of frequency in the context of first

Procedure

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

- The T will greet the students and hangs the pictures on the board. - The T determines the pairs. - She gives the instruction; "Look at the pictures and discuss what they are about with your partner. - The T elicits some answers and involve students to other students' answers.

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the audio

- The T gives the students the hand out where there are words about the audio. - The T asks students to match the individualy with the pictures from the previous stage. - The instruction is "Match the pictures with the words (The T does chesting and shows the location of the words). You have 3 minutes. - When the activity finishes, the teacher does some CCQ about the words if necessary. (e.g. which word can be te answer for how old you are?) - The T starts a voting for the most popular topics for theselves among the pictures and the words and in the end of the voting, she directs "why is this the most popular..." question for the first top three.

While-Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with specific information listening tasks

-The T says "now, we have a listening but first look at the worksheet for about 1 minute." -The T gives out the worksheets for specific information listening. -The T instructs the students; "Now listen to two girls talking about their ideas on the first conversations." - When the listening finishes, the T starts to elicit answers. - When she elicits answers, she directs some questions to other studets about their answers.

While-Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference listening tasks

-The T says "now, we have tge same listening but first look at the worksheet for about 1 minute." -The T gives out the worksheets for gist listening. -The T instructs the students; "Now listen and answer the questions." - When the listening finishes, the T starts to elicit answers. - When she elicits answers, she directs some questions to other studets about their answers.

Post-Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond and expand on what they've learned

- The T gets the students into pairs. - The T gives the instruction: "Look at the worksheet!" (She shows the worksheet she gave earlier.) - She instructs; "think about the topics that are okay to talk about, discuss about them and write sentences about 4 topics like in the examples. You have 5 minutes. (The T writes down the instructions on the board and shows the students the examples.) - When the students are finished, the T makes groups and makes them discuss about their ideas in 5 minutes. - The T starts a discussion about the topic and gets individual answers. (The T adds the culture and personality elements)

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