Elizabeth Gutiérrez Martínez Elizabeth Gutiérrez Martínez

TP7-Writing-elizabeth
Upper-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will develop writing skills in the context of movie reviews. First, they will read a review from a movie, then learn its parts, finally, students will be able to write their own.

Materials

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson students will produce writing practice of a review in the context of movies

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about the film Annihilation in the context of movie review

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-6 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- T shares Jamboard with Ss - T elicits the difference between seeing and watching a movie. - T displays the following questions: What was the last film you watched? Would you recommend it? - T demos with her answer. - Instructions: Discuss your answers in pairs. - Students discuss in Breakout rooms (3 min) - T conducts OCFB and asks a couple of students their opinion (1 min)

Pre-Teach Vocabulary (2-3 minutes) • To cover MPF of key vocabular for the reading.

Teacher together with students elicits the meaning: - Haul off - Edge: Synonyms? Border/limit. - Gear: Synonyms? Equipment.

Exposure/Sample analysis (9-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading.

- T shares the "Annihilation" review. - T displays the following questions: Do you think it is an interesting movie? Would you watch it? (again) - Instructions: Read the review and answer the question in the chatbox. (3 min). ICQs: What are you going to do first? After you read the text, what are you going to do? - T elicits the parts of a movie review. (3 min). - T displays the next slide "Words to Use as Sentence Starters." Together with the teacher, students choose the correct column for each word, then T elicits the meaning with some examples. (3 min).

Productive Task(s) (12-15 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

- Instructions: WRITE THE REVIEW OF YOUR FAVORITE MOVIE (15 min).

Feedback (8-9 minutes) • To provide feedback by a peer with the use of a checklist.

- T elicits the checklist students will need to revise their peer's review. (2 min) - T shares a checklist in google documents. - Instructions: Read your partner's review and check it out with the list. (3 min) - Instructions: Tell your partner your opinion about their review (4 min)

Error correction (3-4 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

- T writes samples of learners’ production on the screen and sets a task for the whole group to identify the correct and incorrect sentences and correct the latter ones. - T conducts OCFB

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