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TP 7 GRAMMAR
Upper intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students are going to review ways to emphasize by using mainly "intensifiers".

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide review of Language used to give emphasis. in the context of Informal conversation/discussion between a couple.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification of language used for Language used for emphasize in the context of Informal conversation

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To contextualise the lesson

Ask your learners to talk about the topic in teams. Students discuss these 3 questions: Do you often lose things? What? What about the people you live with? These questions are going to be presented in a slide. Introduce the characters, explaining that Hannah and Dan are friends/couple. (The information above is for the teacher) INSTRUCTION FOR THE STUDENTS: Read the next questions and discuss them. After doing this, you´re going to read a text where a couple is having a discussion because the girl lost her keys.

Exposure - Presentation through the text. (7-8 minutes) • The purpose is to ask Ss to “identify” the TL and to provide context for the target language through a text or situation.

A) Read the text. A) INSTRUCTIONS: Okay guys, now you have 1 and a half minutes to read this text. Go. The text is going to be in the current slide. B) Gist task. What is it about? What has Hannah Lost? B) INSTRUCTIONS: Okay, time is up. Who can answer me these questions? What is it about? What has Hannah Lost? At the same time, I will be sending the questions right into the chatbox. C) Intensive task. Listen and write the missing words in the conversation. Does the conversation make sense without these words? What effect do these words have? C) INSTRUCTIONS: Okay, guys, now you are going to listen to the conversation from an audio file but you will notice some extra words in between the symbols/numbers. (I write symbols/numbers as I will share them in the screen/slide the book conversation but I will write the numbers from 1 to 10 just above the numbers so that it´s easier for them to identify where they´re going to listen to the extra words.9 I want you to write down these words in the order in which you heard them. From 1 to 10. So I want you to be really focused. Are you ready? Go. After the conversation, I´ll put on the screen the list of words (in order) from 1-10 so they can chek their answers.

Clarification (10-12 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language and appropiacy if needed.

MEANING So & Such | Far too | Absolutely | Really Initial question (eliciting the meaning- In this case, the question is pretty simples because one of the assumptions is that they may already know the "general meaning" for this particular TL) Do you guys know the meaning of this words: So & Such | Far too | Absolutely | Really After having listened to the students: SLIDES: We often use 'so' and 'such' to mean 'very' or 'really'. It makes the sentence stronger and shows that there is a high level of something. Far too Exceedingly, or more than needed. It could be formal, as it's used more of a way to make a sentence seem more important. Absolutely & really Really: very or very much. Absolutely: Completely | used to strongly agree with someone. CCQs: First (so & such) Are they used to make a sentence stronger or weaker? Can you give me a similar word for so | such? Second (Far too) If we use this expression, we are giving importance to a sentence or resting importance? If we use far too, are we saying that it´s a lot of something but enough or that something is exceeding, more than needed? Can we use very much as a synonym? Why yes or why not? Third (Absolutely & really) Are we adding emphasis or are we reducing emphasis? Can I say very instead of really indistinctly? FORM (This particular stage is going to be explained by me by using visual resources in order to take advantage of the time and avoid arising any extra & useless information which may confuse the students) So & such So + adjective E.g., She is so beautiful. So + adverb E.g., You speak so slowly So + many/much + noun E.g., We´ve had so many problems / It takes so much time (many for countable nouns and much for uncountable nouns) Such + a/an + adjective + noun ----------------------- (This form is for singular countable nouns) E.g., She is such a beautiful girl. Such + adjective + noun E.g., Those were such good days / That´s such good advice (This form is for plurals or uncountable nouns) Far too Far + too + adjective E.g., She is far too beautiful Far + too much / too many + noun E.g., It´s far too much trouble / It´s far too many sweets (Many for countable nouns and much for uncountable nouns) Extra fact: We can also use far with comparative adjectives E.g., You´re far taller than I´d expected. Absolutely & really Absolutely + adjective E.g., The weather was absolutely perfect. Really + adjective E.g., The game was actually a really good game. MAIN DIFFERENCE Absolutely is used ONLY with ungradable adjectives. Really can be used either with gradable or ungradable adjectives. PRONUNCIATION (Explain features of pronunciation at the sentence level. Focus on the ones that are the most relevant to the TL) Students are going to work along with me in order to drill with these sentences so they can identify on their own where should they stress the words and which word should they stress . She is so beautiful. . You speak so slowly. . We´ve had so many problems. . It takes so much time. . She is such a beautiful girl. . Those were such good days. . That´s such good advice. . She is far too beautiful. . It´s far too much trouble. . It´s far too many sweets. . The weather was absolutely perfect. . The game was a really good game.

Controlled Practice (5-6 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Use Practice 1 to provide controlled practice of the language. , (on Google Forms) Learners do this individually, then check in pairs (via private messages on the chatbox) and OCFB Students are going to match the sentences in BLUE with a reply in GREEN. (JAMBOARD) The whole group work together in BoR Then I will ask 3 or 4 students randomly to choose one of the sentences and to make it more emphatic by using the TL.

Free Practice (7-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

The students are going to see in the slides 3 pictures about different topics: Pictures 1: Related to sports Picture 2: Related to Literature Picture 3: Related to Education In groups (depending on the number of students could be pair work, triples, etc) they will have to choose one and start a conversation by themselves by using these questions as a reference/guide: Picture 1: How important do you think is practicing sports? How entertaining or boring is the sport and why? Picture 2: How important is it for people to read frequently? Which literature genre do you think is the most interesting / most boring? Picture 3: How good do you think is education in your country? Why?

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