Damla Korkmaz Damla Korkmaz


Elementary level

Description

In this lesson,students will talk about life and read a short biography about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's life and think of someone that everyone knows very well and write that person's biography following the same stages in the sample.

Materials

Abc cut-outs
Abc handout
Abc OHP
Abc Pictures
Abc projector
Abc WB
Abc A4 papers
Abc projector

Main Aims

  • To provide process writing practice of a biography in the context of famous people we admire

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in the context of life story

Procedure

Lead in (5-7 minutes) • to create awareness in the topic and provide a fluency speaking activity

-Put the pictures of some famous people on the board. -Ask them some questions about their lives to create interest in the topic. *How was their life? Easy or difficult? *Did they have a family.

Reading for gist (4-5 minutes) • To understand the general meaning of the text in the context of Atatürk's life.

-Give students to cut-outs and the HO. -Tell them to work alone,read the text and match the headings with the paragraphs. -Tell them they've got 3 minutes. -Ask ICQs. *Are you working alone or together? Alone *Are you writing or matching? Matching. *Are you reading quickly or slowly?Quıckly. -How much time do you have? 3 minutes. -Tell them to compare their answers with their partner. FB: -Write answers on the board and ask if they have any questions.

Useful Language (5-6 minutes) • Highlight and clarification of useful language for productive writing task

-Focus their attention on paragraph 1 and ask what we can learn about Atatürk in this paragraph. -Elicit the answers from them. -Focus their attention on paragraph 2 and then 3 and ask what these paragraph tell us about Atatürk. -Ask what kind of writing it is. Ask if it tells us about Atatürk's life, education, personality. -Ask what we call that kind of texts and elicit biography. -

Productive Task (20-25 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice freer writing activity

-Tell them to think of someone that everyone knows well. -Tell them this person can be a singer,politician,artist,painter,footballer,dancer or a top model etc. -Tell them write about this person considering the stages and information on the board. -Tell them not to mention that person's name. -Tell them they have got 15 minutes. -Ask ICQs. *Are you writing a story or biography? Biography *Are you writing that person's name on the paper?No. *How many paragraphs have you got? 3. *Are you working alone or together? Alone. *How much time have you got? 15 minutes. -When they're done, they read each other's paper and try to guess the person. -They have got 3 minutes for each biography. FB: -When they finish reading,they have a guess altogether and tell the name of the person.

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