María Rosario Quintero María Rosario Quintero

TP5. Speaking
Upper - Intermediate level

Description

A lesson about two subskills of speaking (fluency and use of appropriate discourse markers) in the context of telling a personal anecdote related to crimes.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a personal anecdote in the context of crimes.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification and review of functional expressions for storytelling and active listening (As usual, Anyway, Straightaway, Lucky, Otherwise, Actually, “Well, never mind”, In the end, How’s it going?, Suddenly.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- T displays images on screen related to the context of Story Telling and Crimes. - T elicits a few ideas from learners. - T asks: In your country: Could you receive a fine for committing any of these crimes? Could you go to jail? - Images will be covered and the teacher elicits ideas about these words: Dropping litter in the street, Vandalism, and graffiti, Drinking, and driving, Noisy/anti-social neighbors, Speeding, Begging. - T conducts OCFB.

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

T Share Google Form. Give SS time to read statements 1-6. Tell SS to listen individually and answer. 1. Does the word swaying refer to? - To sing aloud. - To sleep on the street. - To move slowly from side to side. Correct answer: To move slowly from side to side. 2. Does the word swearing refer to? -To use rude and offensive language. -To drink alcohol on the street. -To play chess. Correct answer: To use rude and offensive language. 3. Does the sentence Banging on all the car windows refer to? - To paint all the car windows. - To hit all the car windows. - To break all the car windows Correct answer: to hit the car windows. 4. Were two young men outside a woman’s house swaying all over the place? - Yes, they were. - No, they weren’t. Correct Answer: Yes, they were. 5. Had these two young men been drinking? - Yes, they had been drinking. - No, they had not been drinking. Correct Answer: Yes, they were. 6. Did the old lady call the police? - Yes, she did. - No, she didn’t. Put them in breakouts rooms to compare answers in pairs before OCFB.

Useful Language (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

1. Share Jambord with SS. Match the useful language for telling the story with the meaning. Students do the matching exercise in Break out rooms. Check answers in the main room. Many of these words are named in the listening: *As usual * Anyway * Straightaway * Lucky *Otherwise *Actually * Well, never mind * In the end * How’s it going? *Suddenly Point out Meaning, Pronunciation, and Form of Anyway, Otherwise, and Straightaway.

Productive Task(s) (18-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

- Instructions: - T shows some possible crimes: sexual harassment, murder, assassination, kidnap, swindle. SS can choose one or choose a different crime. - T shows some words about the useful language for telling the story: suddenly, in the end, actually, never mind. Point out that they don’t have to use all the words /phrases. - Students think of a story as a witness to a crime. SS will work on their own and make notes about the story. Give them 2 min to prepare. - Put SS into groups of 3 or 4. SS take turns to tell their stories. Monitor, take notes on good use of useful expressions and SS to decide which is the best story in the group. - Ss share the best story in the main room in OCFB. Task instructions: 1. Work on your own. You are going to tell other students a story as a witness to a crime. It can be about your personal experience or someone you know. Choose one of these crimes shown on the screen or choose a different crime. Then make notes on the main events of your story. 2. Share your story with your classmates (in groups of 3 or 4 students). Choose the best and then share this story selected in the main room.

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

-If time gets SS to retell best stories. DEC on good use or errors in the use of useful expressions. Use LA sheet to inform correction decisions: monitor inappropriate use of discourse markers, incorrect form and mispronunciations, and under-emphasis. -- Where is the mistake? The teacher will show 4 words: Otherwise, Never Mind, Suddenly, and In the End. There are 4 sentences with a mistake because these words for storytelling are in an incorrect sentence. SS should write the sentence with the correct word. SS will work in the breakout room. SS will compare correct sentences in OCFB. Correct sentences: 1. I always eat breakfast. Otherwise, I get hungry during class. 2. We trained very hard and, in the end, won the competition. 3. I was just dozing off when suddenly I heard a scream from outside. 4. “I’m sorry. I lost that wallet you gave me”. “Never mind, I can easily buy you another one”.

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