Empower_A1_LP26
A1 level (starter) level
Materials
Main Aims
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To practice use of this, that, these, those in the context of the shopping places; To practice reading for detailed; To familiarise SS with "common objects 2 and prices" vocabulary words; To provide SS practice using those vocabulary
Subsidiary Aims
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To practice listening for gist; To provide speaking practice for accuracy
Procedure (56-87 minutes)
Write market on the board. Put SS into pairs. Ask: "What do you buy at a market?" Give SS two minutes to write as many things as they can. Monitor and help as necessary. Open class feedback.
Have SS to complete the exercises in Vocabulary Focus 7A on SB p.147. Play the recording in Exercise a for students to listen and repeat the words. For Exercise b, put SS into groups of three. Write: At home, I have a... on the board and elicit a few simple sentences from the class, e.g., At home, I have a clock. Ask SS to read the speech bubbles, study the pictures again and then cover them. Demonstrate how to play the game with two confident students. Stop the game after three or four minutes. Ask: "Is it easy or difficult to remember long sentences?" Tell SS to go back to SB p.56 in ex 1E.
Ask SS: "Where do you usually go shopping?", "What kinds of things do you like to buy?". Elicit a few answers and write some common shopping places on the board (e.g., supermarket, flea market, bookshop, mall).
Use the picture to elicit the verbs buy and sell. Elicit some different shops students already know from SB p.41, e.g., supermarket, bookshop. Tell SS to look at the Shopping text. Give SS one minute to read about the three places to shop and decide which place is in the picture in ex 1A, p 56. Check the answer as a class, asking students to say why this is the answer. Ask SS to read what the four people say. Check that students understand magazine (a type of thin book with news articles and colourful pictures) and "lamp" (point to the lamp in the picture). Ask SS to read again to see which place is good for each of the four people in ex 1B, p 56. Have SS to compare answers in pairs. Check answers as a class, asking students to say why these are the answers.
Ask SS to read about "The Sunday Flea Market" again and find the words for objects a-f in the picture in ex 1C, p 56. Have SS to compare answers in pairs. Check answers as a class. Make sure students are saying singular forms (e.g., lamp, suitcase) and not the plural forms that are in the text (lamps, suitcases). Ask: "Which objects can you see in the classroom?" Ask: "Which words in The Sunday Flea Market text mean "look without buying"? (look around).
Remind SS that "would like" is the polite way to say "want". Take a class vote to find out which object in the picture most people in the class want. Ask SS to decide which object they would like. Ask some several questions: "Which object would you like?" "Why would you like it?" "Which object would you not like? Why?" "Would you like to have this object now or later?" Open class feedback.
For Exercise 1, ask SS to complete the words in the table. Ask: "Are these letters and sounds vowels or consonants?" For Exercise 2, play the recording in ex 1F, p 56 for students to listen and check. Check answers as a class. Discuss the question in Exercise 3 as a class. Show how the sounds /b/, /p/, and /g/ are always spelled with b, p, and g by writing more examples on the board, e.g., big, bottle, pizza. Show how the sound /k/ can be spelled with c, k, or ck by writing computer, key, and back on the board. Put SS into pairs for Exercise 4 to practice saying the words. Monitor and check that they are pronouncing the consonants correctly.
Ask: "A shop, a market?" "What's the difference?" (a shop is a building where you buy things, a market is a place where people meet to buy and sell things, usually outside). Point to a table and mime that it's your market stall with things to sell. Teach: "market stall". Divide the class into pairs and assign A and B roles. Give Student As 30 seconds to write five things to sell at their market stall. Write: "Do you have...?" and "Do you sell...?" on the board. In pairs, Student B uses the questions to find out what Student A sells in ex 1G, p 56.
Tell SS they are going to hear a conversation between two people at Mega Home Store. Ask SS to guess what the two people might talk about in a home store (e.g., shopping, furniture, prices). Open class feedback.
Tell SS that they're going to listen to two people at Mega Home Store. Give them time to read the task, then play the recording in ex 2A, p 57 for them to answer the questions. Play the recording again if necessary. Have SS to compare answers in pairs. Check answers as a class, and ask: "Is Edward happy?" (yes). "Is Kate happy?" (no). Say: Kate says about the speaker, "What?! That's very... ." Elicit the word expensive and its opposite, cheap.
Play the recording in ex 2B, p 57 for students to add the missing words. Check answers as a class, writing the missing word and the noun that follows it on the board: "this plant, these chairs, those plates, that speaker".
Underline "this, these, those, and that" in the phrases on the board. For each one, ask: "Singular or plural?" (this plant-singular, these chairs-plural, those plates-plural, that speaker-singular). Have SS to complete the table in ex 2C, p 57. Check answers as a class by copying the table onto the board.
For Exercise 1, play the recording in ex 2D, p 57 for students to listen and answer the questions. Put SS into pairs for Exercise 2 to practice saying the words.
Ask SS to read the information in Grammar Focus 7A on SB p.126. Play the recording where indicated and ask SS to listen and repeat in ex 2E, p 57.
Have SS to complete the exercises on SB p.127. Check answers as a class. Tell SS to go back to SB p.57 in ex 2E.
Play the recording in ex 3A, p 57 for students to tick the prices they hear. Play the recording again if necessary. Check answers as a class. Write the two answers on the board and underline the plural "s" in each phrase: three pounds, twenty-five euros. Ask SS to practice saying the prices. Play the recording in ex 3B, p 57 for them to listen and check. Play the recording in ex 3C, p 57 for students to fill in the gaps. Check answers as a class by playing the recording again, pausing it after each answer and writing the whole phrase on the board.
Divide the class into pairs and assign A and B roles. Student As read the information about what they want to buy and sell on SB p.113 and prepare what they're going to say. Student Bs do the same on SB p.111. Take feedback by asking students about their conversations at the flea market stall: "Do you have some new objects?" "Are you happy with the price? Why/Why not?" in ex 4(speaking), p 57. Give an instant feedback.
