Maritza Gomez Maritza Gomez

A demo of a grammar lesson (Tag questions)
Upper-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will learn how to ask tag questions to check information, ask for confirmation and involve the listener through a listening exercise related to children's difficult questions. This is followed by an explanation of how these expressions are used and pronounced correctly and a practice exercise which students will enhace their intonation and grammar skills.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification, review and practice of tag questions in the context of children's difficult questions

Subsidiary Aims

  • To develop learners’ ability to understand and use rising and falling intonation in tag questions to express certainty and uncertainty.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Students will view a group of pictures and express their thoughts on what they believe the answers are. Then, there will be CCQ's to encourage students to participate actively. For the ship image: Do you think the shape is important for safety? → Yes Is this about design or decoration? → Design/safety Human hair image: Do you think everyone has exactly the same number of hairs? → No Is it easy to count exactly? → No Beatles image: Are The Beatles still together now? → No Are there different explanations for their breakup? → Yes (Ask students to tell their hypothesis) War image: Is there only one simple reason for war? → No Can the causes be different? → Yes Is this about human behaviour or natural laws? → Human behaviour

Exposure (7-8 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

Gist task: Students will listen to the Unit 5 recording 2 exercise and will answer the questions do NOT appear in the conversation. They will have 1 extra minute after the recording to answer the question. ICQ'S: Are you choosing the questions you hear? → No Are you choosing the questions you don’t hear? → Yes Intensive task: Students will listen to the conversation a second time and will complete the sentences according to what they hear in the audio. They will have 1 extra minute after the recording to answer the question. ICQ'S: Do you write only part of the tag question?→ Yes Do you need to use the same verb from the sentence?→ Yes TL: The teacher will ask students to underline the short questions at the end of the sentences in 2 minutes. Then, CCQ's will be asked to let them get what the Target Language is: CCQ's: Do all the sentences have the same ending?→ No Do these questions look for agreement?→ Yes

Clarification (12-15 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

Meaning: Students will see some images with questions. They will replace the colored expression with the tag question in 2 minutes. After that, CCQ's will be made to clarify meaning: CCQ's for image 1: Does the speaker expect the listener to agree? → Yes Is the response showing agreement or confirmation? → Yes CCQ's for image 2: Is the speaker sure about that information? → Yes Does the intonation help us understand the meaning? → Yes CCQ's for image 3: Is the speaker sure about that information? → No Does the speaker expect to confirm the information? → Yes Form: Students will see a group of tag questions. They will highlight what the mistake is and will correct it in 3 minutes. Then we will have OCFB to see the right answers and CCQ's to help them get the right answer: CCQ's: If the verb is 'work', what auxiliary goes in the tag question? ------- do/don't If the subject is a negative word like nobody, no one, etc, is the tag question negative? ----- No If I say 'I am' in the sentence, is the tag question is amn't I? ----- No Pronunciation: Students will listen in 1 minute to the tag questions seen in the previous listening exercise and will find out if the intonation goes up ↗ to show we don't know the answer or it's a real question, or goes down↘ if we know the answer and are just confirming the information. Then, OCFB will be done to confirm the answers.

Controlled Practice (4 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Students will match the statements with the tag questions. ICQ's: How many minutes do we have to match → 2 minutes Can we choose more than one option per sentence? → No Then in OCFB we will see the right answers of the exercise

Free Practice (8-9 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Students will work in pairs. Student A will choose three statements they think are probably true about their partner. Then they will ask Student B using tag questions with falling intonation (↘). On the other hand, Student B will choose three statements they are not sure about. After that, they will ask them using tag questions with rising intonation (↗). Students A's and B's will speak for 4 minutes. Then, DEC will be made to see things to correct.

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