Pre-intermediate Vocabulary Skills
Pre-intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of a lexical set in the context of holidays.
Subsidiary Aims
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To develop speaking fluency and active listening.
Procedure (34-40 minutes)
Have Ss look at the photos. Ask: What can you see in the photos? (Beaches, crowds, and people eating at a restaurant). Do they show positive or negative things about holidays? (Both). Pre-teach excursion (short trip) and queue (wait in a line) by showing the following sentence: The excursion to the art museum was fun, except when we had to queue to buy tickets.
Share G-Form in the chat. Show Ss how to complete the first question: choose P if it comes from a postcard/e-mail and choose B if it comes from a holiday brochure. After 3 minutes, ask Ss to submit their answers. Use responses to see if Ss struggled with any in OCFB. Answers: 1 P, 2 B, 3 P, 4 B, 5 P, 6 P, 7 B. Ask: During your holiday, would you send a postcard or an e-mail? Why or why not?
Meaning Show Padlet. Show Ss an example of how to complete the task: categorize the words according to whether they describe an ideal holiday, an awful holiday, or not sure/either. Share the link in the chat and confirm that Ss can access it. Assign a slide to each Ss. Answers: Ideal Holiday: warm, luxurious, excursions, swimming pool, peaceful, relaxing. Awful Holiday: queue, crowded. Ask CCQs: Is luxurious something good? (Yes). When you are on a holiday, do you want it to be peaceful? (Yes). If someplace is crowded, do you want to go there? (No). Form Share PDF of text in the chat. Show G-Slide 1 (4-6). Show Ss an example of how to complete the task: categorize the words according to their parts of speech using the text. Share the link in the chat and confirm that Ss can access it. Assign a slide to each Ss. Answers: Noun: excursions, swimming pool. Adjective: warm, luxurious, crowded, peaceful, relaxing. Verb: queue. Pronunciation Show G-Slide 2 (7-9). Tell Ss they will hear eight words. Ss should categorize the words according to the stress pattern. Play twice. Answers: 1 syllable O: warm, queue. 2 syllables Oo: crowded, peaceful. 3 syllables oOo: excursions, relaxing. 3 syllables OoO: swimming pool. 4 syllables oOoo: luxurious. Drill chorally and individually.
Show G-Form. Ask Ss to use the words from the text box to fill in the blanks (luxurious, an excursion, crowded, peaceful, warm). Share G-Form in the chat. Give Ss 3 minutes. If time allows, put Ss in pairs in BORs to compare their answers. Answers: 1 crowded, 2 warm, 3 an excursion, 4 peaceful, 5 luxurious.
Show G-Slide (12-14). Tell Ss to use the words from the text box (warm, luxurious, queue, excursions, swimming pool, crowded, peaceful, relaxing). Instruct Ss to write a short story about a holiday they had that was either very good or very bad (e.g. I went to Italy last summer. It was crowded…). Give Ss 2 minutes. Instruct Ss to share their story with their partner. Their partners should ask follow-up questions (e.g. Would you go back to Italy?). Put Ss in pairs in BORs. Monitor Ss. After 5 minutes, switch partners. Write down examples of how the words from the text box were used. OCFB on content and language.
