Heiko Sell Heiko Sell

YL TP1
Years 11-12 (CEF A1-A2) level

Description

Integrated Skills: The overall topic of the lesson is 'interests and activities'. The lesson will provide opportunities to improve students' listening, reading, writing and speaking skills, all related to school surveys.

Materials

Abc Key vocabulary
Abc Student survey (Messages)
Abc Student survey (ITI)

Main Aims

  • To provide practice and review of language used for surveys in the context of personal activities and interests.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about abilities in the context of a school survey.
  • To provide product writing practice of short sentences in the context of students' personal interests.
  • To provide gist listening practice using a text about abilities in the context of a school survey.
  • To provide accuracy speaking practice in an interview in the context of a school survey.

Procedure

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

T draws(family/pictogram, history/timeline) and mimes(skydiving) his favourite activities and interests. S guess what these activities are.

Pre-teach/refresh vocabulary (2-3 minutes) • To provide key vocabulary for the following skills exercises through pictures.

S do exercise 4 on their own and match written activities/interests with the corresponding pictures. The pictures and the matching descriptions will be handed out as a puzzle and peer reviewed before cheking answers in class.

Reading for gist (2-3 minutes) • To provide gist reading practice about activities and interests of a school survey.

T explains the meaning of a survey. S read the survey for gist and discuss what this survey is about in pairs before comparing results in class.

Listening for gist (6-8 minutes) • To provide gist listening practice using an interview for a school survey.

S listen to the recording and tick the applicable boxes. S listen to the recording again and check their answers. S discuss their answers in pairs before they will listen again and discuss answers is class.

Controlled writing practice (6-8 minutes) • To provide productive written practice for short sentences about the content of the survey and their own talents and to prepare for their own survey.

S write several true sentences about Jack. Numbers will vary according to their personal level. S write true sentences about themselves; again numbers will vary according to their personal level. This tage will include some flexitime, where students are supposed to draw or mime their favourite interests or activities which the others have to guess. This information can be included to construct new senteces.

Writing and speaking activity (survey) (8-10 minutes) • To prepare and conduct their own survey and to provide accuracy speaking practice.

S create their own survey and interview other students (or teachers for the advanced S if only a few students show up) and present their findings in class.

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