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TP 5 Mary Beth Maslowski
Intermediate level

Description

To provide speaking fluency practice in the context of summarizing an article and asking questions arising from it.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide To provide speaking fluency practice in the context of summarizing an article and asking questions arising from it.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To teach new vocabulary words.

Procedure

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

Show Ss picture of Taylor Swift. Ask, Do you know her? Taylor Swift What does she do? Sing and write songs and perform concerts Is she very famous? Yes Is she very rich? Yes Taylor Swift has a problem. Do you know what it is? When you are famous some people want to be close to you. Maybe they follow you. See if any of the students know what per problem is. People have stalked her. Then show slide 3. Stalk Is it something good or something bad? Ask students what the word "stalk" means. Show slide 4 with a definition of the word. Ask student to read the definition, Ask what the students think is the noun form of the verb? Talk-Talker / Stalk-Stalker Show slide 5: Stalker. Ask how many stalkers Taylor Swift has had. 5. Show slide 6. Have a student read the definition.

Useful Language (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for upcoming productive task

Useful Language: Show slide 7 / Stardom. I repeat the word and ask a student to read the sentence. Is stardom a good thing or a bad thing? Did Taylor Swift rise to stardom? Then I will ask what does it mean? If no one knows I will point out the word star. Try to elicit the meaning of stardom. People who are stars are very famous. Yes. People who are stars are poor? Show Ss slide 8 with definition. Have student read the definition, Ask what part of speech the word is. Show slide 9 / Shopaholic. I say the word and get a student to read the sentence. I ask, Do you know what an alcoholic likes? What does a shopaholic like? Show slide 10. Have student read the definition. Ask what part of speech the word is. Show slide 11 / Executive. Say the word. Have student read the sentence. Do you think a person who is an executive has a good job or bad job. Does an executive make a little money. Show definition on Slide 12. Have a student read the definition. Ask what part of speech the word is. Show student slide 13 / sell-out show. I say the words and have a student read the sentence. A sell-out show means they didn't sell many tickets. A sell-out show means a lot of people came to your show and you sold all the tickets. Show Slide 14 with definition. Have a student read the definition. Ask what part of speech the word is. Show slide 15 / Wealth. Say the word. Have a student read the sentence. Is having wealth good or bad. If people have wealth they don't have a lot of money. Show slide 16. Have student read the definition. Ask what part of speech the word is. Give students the link to the presentation. Tell them they are going to do a matching exercise. They have to match the word with the definition. Give each student a slide number in the presentation. Students have 2 minutes to complete the matching exercise. Ask a student for each answer. Show Ss slide 23. They have put the word into the column with the correct stress mark. Give each student a slide number. Ss have 2 minutes. Go over results. Go over pronunciation chorally and individually

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

Tell Ss to go to slide 29-30. Students will be able to choose the article they want to read. Have a different students read each of the items. Tell Ss that they will read an article and write down answers about the article. Show slide 31. (If running short on time go to page 32 for shortened questions.) Tell students to take notes and answer the questions. You will write down the answers. Ss have five minutes to read the article. Give students either a, b, c, or d articles.

Productive Task(s) (18-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Then, students will work in pairs and ask each other questions about the articles. Show slide 32. This slide has questions on it. If there is time, have the students change partners and ask their new partner questions about the article. If there is enough time and enough students, have them switch a third time,

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Provide feedback and DEC. If there is time, go over "gonna."

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