Hazel Hazel

Teaching Practice 1
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, students will be familiarized with family vocabulary exercises, possessive pronouns while differentiating with contracted pronouns and understanding of the auxiliary verbs " has/have got " by filling up the family tree of Molly and Steve.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide students controlled practice of family vocab, the specific use of possessive 's and basic understanding of "have/has got" in sentence formulation.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice vocabulary by giving students the gist and specific information of Molly and Steve's family tree. To give students practice on their productive skills of listening and speaking.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (1-5 minutes) • To introduce the lesson context and quick recap on previous lesson for students to understand on the next activity.

- Introduce self - Know students and get comfortable - Ask questions on what topic they have learned on previous lessons emphasizing on possessive nouns

Activity One: Pair group (5-10 minutes) • To determine students' prior knowledge of the target language by filling up the family grid.

- To form two groups of red and blue team. - To analyze the activity and explain on what to do - To pair students in each team and ask to fill- in the family tree - Ask ICQ's to avoid confusion - Give them time to answer and analyze the question - Monitor each pair to make sure they know what to do

Teach: Activity One Clarification (1-5 minutes) • To help students understand areas of the target language where they might had difficulty on the initial stage of the activity. To elicit family vocabulary by focusing on possessive nouns.

- Direct students to analyze the family grid that they only have filled up half of the family tree. - Elicit vocabulary and ask questions matching it to the family grid, e.g. Who's Molly's sister? Who's Pam's mother - Illustrate on WB to differentiate contracted and possessive nouns with the use of apostrophe s. - Ask students to formulate questions targeting their integrated skills

Activity Two: Filling up the remaining grid (6-10 minutes) • To check students' use of the target language by filling up the remaining grid with pair of students in different team using questions of possessive nouns.

- Regroup students by pair of blue and red team. - Clear instruction to fill up the remaining grid by asking questions and trying not to look at each other's work. - Ask ICQ's - Give students time to analyze the family tree through asking concept questions with their partner and correctly filling up the missing family name. - Monitor their progress by giving support on each team

Teach: Activity Two Clarification (1-5 minutes) • To check students' use of the target language by answering the family grid with questions using have/has got in a sentence. To ask questions using possessive nouns differentiating with contracted nouns/pronouns.

- Give out the answers by: a. Ask comprehensive questions with the use of have/has got? e.g. Have Bob and Sally got three children? Has Pam got children? b. Differentiate possessive and contracted noun/pronoun.e.g Steve’s got two sons, Peter, and Billy? Is that correct? - Explain using WB - Ask students to give an example

Activity Three: Writing Questions (1-5 minutes) • To check students' ability of understanding possessive nouns and the use of auxiliary verbs in a sentence

- Regroup the students by two's or three's. - Give out activity paper - Explain the activity by formulating one question of possessive noun and "has/have got" in a sentence. - Ask ICQ's - Monitor on their progress

Teach: Activity Three (1-5 minutes) • To check students' ability of understanding possessive nouns and the use of auxiliary verbs in a sentence

- Ask students to share their answers - Give feedback - Focus on their integrated skills: reading, speaking and listening

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