Elizabeth Cruz Rojas Elizabeth Cruz Rojas

Elizabeth Cruz Rojas_TP3_LP3 Chicatana_banana@hotmail.com
Upper Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about grammar present and past habits, repeated actions and states through guided discovery based on a reading text about Bernie and Ellen story. The lesson starts with a talk about good or bad eating habits. This is followed by a text work reading where students complete some gaps. Finally, there is some controlled practice through filling the gaps with the verb in parentheses, free practice where students will use the target language fluently and a post response to the topic where some voluntarily students will know their own anecdote about the bad habits they have left and the good ones who have implemented

Materials

Main Aims

  • To introduce and practice present and past habits, repeated actions and states.

Subsidiary Aims

  • -Developing reading skills: Skimming and Scanning
  • -Developing speaking skill fluency

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students with the topic of good or bad habits that students used to have or still have.

Teacher asks a question to engage students in the topic. Teacher models a question with a student, then students ask each other the same question. Question 1: Can you tell me an eating habit good or bad that you used to have or still have?

Text - work (7-8 minutes) • Subjectively provide context for the type of grammar students will be working on during the lesson through a reading task

In order to expose learners to the target language, teacher asks students read quickly and get the general idea of the text, then they will complete some gaps about it, and check them via private messages, then OCFB.

Language Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language, so that students can correctly express past habits, repeated actions and states.

Teacher guides the discovery or meaning through the uses of CCQ´s (Concept Check Questions) to hightlight and clarify meaning of the target language using the previous reading text so, they work in pairs to make assumptions on the language patterns. MEANING - CCQ´s * So, when Ellen says: " so my husband Bernie and I used to go to dinner every night" What is she expressing? A past habit, a repeatedly action. Is this a present or past habit? How do you know? * In the expression: " I would have liked to have dinner a little more light" What is Ellen talking about? A past habit or repeated action. * "Bernie has opted for the habit of going to tacos at least once a month" Is this a past habit or repeated action? Repetead action What tense is it? In Present Continuous. FORM - Form to talk about past habits, repeated actions and states: (+) Bernie used to say that the more fat the food had, the better it tasted. S + used to + verb infinitive (-) Which is why I did not use to cook at home. S + did not + use to + verb infinitive (?) What did they use to dinner? Mexican snacks. Wh + did + S + use to + verb infinitive + ? -Form to talk about past habits and repeated actions: (+) I would have liked to have dinner a little more light. S + would + verb infinitive (-) I would not have liked to have dinner a little more light. S + would not / wouldn´t+ verb infinitive (?) Would I have liked to have dinner a little more light? Would + S + verb infinitive + ? -Form to talk about typical behaviors: (+) We are working out daily. S + be + verb. Ing (-) We are not working out daily. S + be not + verb. Ing (?) Are we working out daily? Be + S + verb. Ing + ? PRONUNCIATION (+) used to /juzd tʊ/ (-) did not use to /dɪd nɑt juz tʊ/ - There is linking between the words: “not”, “use” and “to”. (?) Did I use to /dɪd I juz tʊ/ - There is linking between the auxiliary “Did” and the subject, “used” and “to”. would /wʊd/ - Letter “L” is a silent letter.

Controlled Practice (7-8 minutes) • To give students the opportunity to use the target language in a less controlled practice (LCP).

Teacher provides some sentences where students have to fill the gaps with the verb in parentheses, check them in pairs via private messages, then OCFB.

Freer Practice (5-6 minutes) • To expose learners to a communicative task to use the target language fluently.

Teacher gives a short reflection to the students and a question to talk about it in pairs in the breakout rooms, then teacher conduct feedback on the task. - Short reflection: Just as Bernie and Ellen gave up bad habits to opt for a healthier life. - Question:What is the difference between your habits from 3 years ago and those of now?

Post (Response to the topic) (7-8 minutes) • To allow the group of students to learn and get motivate about the good habits of their classmates through thier own anecdotes.

Teacher asks one or two participations from students who voluntarily want to share how their lives have changed thanks to a good habit they have acquired or bad habits they have stopped.

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