Mahmoud Hassan Ghonaimy Mahmoud Hassan Ghonaimy

A letter of advice
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, the students will be discussing what people do when they have a problem. In this context, they'll be reading some letters of advice. Afterwards, they will be writing their own letter of advice, which is the main aim of this lesson.

Materials

Abc Blu Tack
Abc colouring pens
Abc Hand-outs
Abc pictures
Abc Projector
Abc WB

Main Aims

  • To provide product writing practice of a letter of advice

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide detailed reading practice using a text about a letter of advice in order to inspire students to come up with their own.

Procedure

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

- Show a picture in slide one and elicit some responses. - Elicit the word therapist. Then, T will ask students to discuss the questions on exercise 9 in this context. T will monitor the discussions and then ask some students questions by nominating them individually.

Exposure (9 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading.

- T gives the students the dilemma on exercise 10A. They'll read the text individually. Then, in pairs, they'll discuss what the person should do. Afterwards, the T nominates some students to share their answers. - In the second part, T gives the Ss the two responses on 10B. They'll choose which one they agree with and discuss this in pairs again.

Useful Language (9 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

- First, T gives the students exercise 10C, D and asks them to see which ones the letter of advice includes. They'll work in pairs. Then, T gets feedback from students. - Elicit that Q10C (3) is advice and elicit more ways to give advice and write on the board. - Qualify what you say 11A in 1 min, then show the answers on the board. - Drill (C & I) and then stick on the board.

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

First, T gives the students a HO with a dilemma. Ss will read the dilemma on their own. Then, in pairs, they'll discuss possible solutions to this dilemma. Students are encouraged to take notes at this point. T asks the students to write their own letter of advice. During the activity, T will monitor the Ss individually and help them if necessary.

Feedback and Error Correction (7 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Write some of the correct examples and correct examples or give out a checklist.

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