Yu Chen Yu Chen

TP 7
B1 Upper Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will have the opportunity to practice producing written text by writing a problem-solution-evaluation essay/report in letter form to an official.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To introduce and provide practice of writing a problem-solution-evaluation essay/report in the context of street crime.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide student with practice and identify functional language in reading peer essays/reports, and offering suggestions.

Procedure

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

1 minute: Ask students "What types of crime are common in your area?" - call on a couple students to share 3 minute: Copy and paste two questions in the chat and have students go into breakout rooms to discuss common crimes in their area, and how do they think the problem can be solved. - "What is ONE common crime in your area?" "How might the problem be solved?" - call on students to reiterate question and how long they have to discuss 1 minute: call on 2-3 students to share what a problem and solution - "seems like we would need to get the authorities involved, right?"

Model Text Analysis / GD (10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading.

2 minutes: Screenshare GoogleForm of model text - students have 30 seconds to examine and identify the problem and solution - unshare after 30 seconds - call on student to ask what the problem was - call on another to ask what the solution was 2 minutes: INDIVIDUAL TASK (same GoogleForm) / mute mics* - Below the text, are numbered "parts" out of order - individuals identify which parts match the texts 2 minutes: Breakout Rooms (or discuss with me if no more than 3 students) - pop in to conduct monitoring, noting for DEC 4 minutes - call on students to answer some parts - concept check: "do we know who it is written to?" / "formal or informal?" / "give another example of the signature/formal closing line" / "what are some clues that it is formal or informal?" / "why is it important for this to be formal?"

Useful Language (formulaic) M&F (10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks.

USE WHITEBOARD for both M&F (have a GoogleForm prepared to copy and paste to whiteboard, one for each M&F) 5 minutes (meaning): 3-4 recycled Functional Language from the model text - matching functions: give reasons for the letter, asking for action, speculation - call on students to answer and explain their choice 5 minutes (form): "another important element" Recycle the 3-4 Functional Language (matching) - replace the end of the phrase with ".... + part of speech/chunk." - match the sentence to the correct ending - call on students to give answer - explain parts further with parts of speech chunks below

Productive Task (writing) (15 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills.

1 minute: instructions - give students 30 seconds to think of a common crime or issue in their area, not the solution yet. - call on a couple of students to share their problem GOOGLE FORM (share link in chat): do not submit 10 minutes" - individual - short and concise - model text above - numbered "long paragraph answer" sections, assigned to each student - have students type their letter following the format of the model text BREAKOUT (or with me if no more than 3 students: 4 minutes: - help each other with mini-checklist - is it formal - did they include all parts/sections? - offer suggestions to each other - !!! identify at least 2 formal functional expressions - 3-4 minutes, NOT CHECKING GRAMMAR

Feedback and Error Correction (6 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

"So what did we think about this writing?" Call on student: - "was this task difficult?" - "what was the most important part (or ingredient) of this exercise?" DEC, congratulate, praise. Close, hand over to Sofia.

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