New lesson plan: Teaching Practice 2- Learning Communication Phrases with their direct meanings and less direct versions

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Teaching Practice 2- Learning Communication Phrases with their direct meanings and less direct versions - Intermediate Level level

Teaching Practice 2- Learning Communication Phrases with their direct meanings and less direct versions
Intermediate Level level

Description

In this lesson, Ss will learn communication words/phrases with their direct meanings and less direct versions. The lesson will start with a warm up discussion of the term 'gossip.' Then they will listen to a conversation between two friends in a bar, do a prediction and answer true and false statements. Following the listening, the T will ask two Ss to play the parts/roles by reading the conversation to the class. After the role play, the Ss will work on the following tasks: 1) Match phrases with their more direct meanings (PW); 2) Listen and repeat useful phrases from the conversation (practice intonation) as WC; 3) Match comments/phrases with their less direct versions. Finally, the Ss will work on an activity where they will be divided into two large groups. The T will hand the first group a 'purple' piece of paper with a comment/phrase and the second group a 'green' piece of paper with its less direct versions.

Materials

Textbook: New Inside Out Intermediate

Conversation comments and their less direct versions (Teacher Made)

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Warm up Photos

Textbook: New Inside Out Intermediate

Conversation comments and their less direct versions (Teacher Made)

Warm up Photos

Main Aims

To practice functional language when talking about people indirectly and matching phrases with their direct meanings and comments with their less direct versions.

Subsidiary Aims

To listen to a conversation and guess the meaning of the phrases from contextual cues/Matching phrases with their direct meanings and less direct versions

Procedure (45 minutes)

Warm Up discussion on the term 'Gossip' (7 minutes) • To get the students to talk about the term 'Gossip,' its meaning and why people gossip about others.

I will start the lesson by showing a photo or two of people gossiping with each other. Then I will ask the class to guess what the people are doing in the photos and discuss some of the things people like to gossip about.

Listening to a Conversation (5 minutes) • To get the students to listen to a conversation between two friends and answer T/F statements related to the conversation

I will ask the students to read the three T/F statements first, then play the listening conversation and discuss it briefly.

Reading the Conversation (8 minutes) • To have students role play a conversation and identify the highlighted phrases

I will ask two students to read/role play the conversation and then I will ask the WC to identify the highlighted phrases in the script.

Matching phrases with their direct meanings (5 minutes) • To get the students to match phrases from the conversation script to their direct meanings.

I will ask the students to work in pairs and match the script's phrases with their direct meanings (located at the bottom of the script).

Listening and repeating the useful phrases from the conversation (5 minutes) • To get the students to repeat the phrases from the conversation and at the same time practice intonation/pronunciation.

The Ss will listen to some phrases from a conversation and will be asked to repeat them as a an intonation/pronunciation practice.

Activity- Matching comments with their less direct versions (15 minutes) • To get the students to recognize common conversation comments with their less direct versions (more polite)

T will ask the Ss to divide into two large groups (green and purple). One group will have conversation comments and the other group their less direct versions. For example: She never stops talking (comment)/She can be a bit talkative (less direct version). I will ask both groups (green and purple) to find their pair and stay with their it. Finally, I will hand them a small piece of paper with all the comments and their less direct versions for them to match.