Elena Morales Elena Morales

That's great news!
Intermediate level

Materials

Abc Speakout Intermediate Students' Book

Main Aims

  • To introduce and provide practice of functional language for giving news

Subsidiary Aims

  • Students will learn functional language and will practice speaking

Procedure

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

- T will the fist slide of the presentation where students will find the first question which is "What's the best news you have ever received?" - After T read the question she will answer it to set an example and then send Ss into the breakout rooms to share their answer with their classmates (2 minutes) - Once Ss come back from the breakout rooms T will ask some of them to share their answer

Exposure (5-6 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

- T will share the link to the form "Receiving news!" and will provide instructions "Your are going to listen to 2 conversations where people is giving some news, you will have to write which is the good news and which is the bad news" - T will play the audio once and will ask to submit the form - T will check the answers with the students in OCF

Highlighting (5-6 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

- T will share the link to the forms "what did they say?" and will give instructions "You will listen to the audios again and will select which phrases the people in the conversation use" T will do a little demo - After Students listen to the audio T will send them to the breakout rooms to compare answers for 2 minutes or less - After students come back teacher will ask them to submit the forms and then will do OCF by showing a transcript of the audio and also the answers of the activity

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

- T will use marker sentences extracted from the audio to clarify the language, the first one is "I’m sorry to have to tell you, but we’ve offered the job to someone else" T will ask which answer is appropriate and then will explain that "that's a shame" is more appropriate because it is more formal. CCQ's Is this sentence expressing good news or bad news? Bad news Does the person want to say the news? No Why the answer to that sentence is "that's a shame"? Because it is more formal - T will move on to the next marker sentence which is "I’m afraid the other candidate had more experience" T will ask which answer is appropriate and then will explain that "I understand" is more appropriate because it is more formal. CCQ's Is this sentence expressing good news or bad news? Bad news Is the person scared of saying the news? No Why the answer to that sentence is "I understand"? Because it is more formal - T will move on to the next marker sentence which is "I’m really pleased to tell you that… they’ve offered me a place!" T will ask which answer is appropriate and then will explain that "That's fantastic news" is more appropriate because it is more formal and that the other one is something that is commonly said between friends. CCQ's Is this sentence expressing good news or bad news? Good news Is the person happy to share that news? Yes Why is it better to say "That's fantastic news" instead of "You lucky thing"? Because "you lucky thing" is more used between friends Teacher will then move on to the next slide where there are some phrases to introduce language and some answers, positive and negative. T will play an audio and students will identify the stress of the sentences and the intonation of the answers (if the voice goes high or low)

Controlled Practice (6-8 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

- Teacher will share the link to the forms "Time to work!" and will give instructions "Here you are going to do some activities, in the first part you are going to order these words to make sentences and in the second one you will have to select the word that fits best, you will have 5 minutes to do this but raise your hand when you are done, okay? Don't submit the forms yet" - After students finish, they are going to go into the breakout rooms to compare answers with their partners for a few minutes - After students come back teacher will ask the to submit the form and then will check the answers in open class

Free Practice (6-8 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

- T share the last slide and provide instructions "This is almost the end o the lesson and you will have to a little role play. What would you do if you won the lottery? You are going to talk with a partner and you will talk about that, here is a little example of what you have to do and some expression that can be useful. First one will be the one that won the lottery and the the other one. Both of you will have to give the news and receive the news." CCQ's what are you going to talk about? Wining the lottery will you take turns to be the winner? Yes - T says "ok, now you will have 5 minutes and then when you come back I'll ask you what you discussed"

Feedback and Error Correction (4-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

- T will monitor in the BORs and take notes of the mistakes made - When students come back teacher will ask "what would you do if you won the lottery?" to some students and will say some of the answers that were interesting - If students made mistakes T will use the rest of the time to do delayed error correction

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