Ekaterina Zimakova Ekaterina Zimakova

Speaking TP5
Elementary level

Description

In this speaking lesson, students will explore and differentiate leisure activities to do at the weekend and on holiday, the TL language focus is on descriptive adjectives and using noun phrases after a verb 'like'.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation and speaking in the context of liesure activities

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of leisure activities at the weekend and on holiday

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T displays a slide virtual background (VB) with people going shopping and having a meal in a restaurant. Elicit from Ss where the people are and what, they think, the lesson will be about. Elicit from Ss the activities which they engage in their free time, how often they do them (every day, once week, once a year) and how do we call the time at the end of the week. Does weekend consist of 1 or more days? Normally two days. Can we do these activities every day? No Can we do these sometimes? Yes How often? Not once a month. Normally, twice a year. How do we call the activities we do when we are free/ or have free time? free time activities/ leisure activities! When do we have time for them? At the weekend ? Yes. Can we do them on holidays? Yes! Similarly, elicit from Ss the meaning of holidays, asking CCQs. What about holidays? Are holidays one or two days? More than two days. Everyone’s holidays fall on exactly the same days or not? For everyone? No, on different. Can you go to Japan for two days/a weekend? Probably, not. Can you go on holiday to Japan? Probably, yes. Elicit that we do not always do what we want. If we do not like something, we say 'hate it'. Elicit that If we like something very much we can say 'love or adore'.

Exposure (3-5 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

Acitivity 1 Refer to Slides 5&6 with a list of leisure activities and clarify the meaning of them to Ss, asking CCQs. Can we all do different activities? Yes Can we do different activities at weekends and on holiday? Yes Clarify TL : types of activities and preferences: like/hate. Ask Ss to interview each other in groups to find out who likes what. Come back as a class and nominate Ss to give answers.

Useful Language (6-8 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Activity 2. Refer to Slides 8-9 and ask CCQs for further clarification of the TL. Ss work in pairs or groups in a Jamboard to decide which activities they like or love and don't like or even hate. Nominate a few students to share their answers.

Productive Task(s) (16-17 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Activity 3.T refer to Slides 10-11-12 and provide a further model of expected TL using descriptive adjectives. Elicit MFP of each, skip some, if overrun, though. Ask Ss to answer which activities they find exciting and fun or boring and dangerous. T provide a model answer on Slide 12 and elicit several examples of using adjectives. T asks Ss to work in groups to guess anagrams with adjectives - Slide 13. T show Ss an example of how to give recommendations for activities. What about... Let's ..... Why don't we... CCQs Is this a question or an affirmation? (a question) Is the question recommending doing something? yes Is it informal, formal, neutral? (neutral) T sends Ss to BORs to practise model of TL

Feedback and Error Correction (6-8 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

T gets Ss back from BORs - Go over language use and types of leisure activities (Slide 12-13) - Try to encourage Ss to choose their favourite free time activity and focus on the TL - T provides feedback on the language.

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