Anjie Kabbani Anjie Kabbani

Good Manners
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, Students will learn more tips on how they should not behave badly when they travel abroad and how it affects the way they communicate with people in order not to reflect badly on their countries and at the same time they will learn about some noticeable cultural differences in both casual and business environment.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To develop the social skills of the students and their intercultural education.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification, practice and review of general behavior in the context of world guide to good manners.

Procedure

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

I will right down on the board the following statement "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" and I will ask the student to discuss what it means and what it refers to then I will get the students feedback and I will ask if they have a similar statement they say in Saudi Arabia and they explain it to me in English.

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a text or situation

I will give each student a handout with questions to think about and then in pairs they can discuss and share their answers. - What are the ways of greeting in Saudi Arabia between people? ex. Saying hello & goodbye, meet for the first time, fiends, strangers... - The way how the people wear in Saudi Arabia "men ,women, at work" - The lunch time break in KSA. After the pair discussion, I will ask the As and Bs to share their ideas together to get more ideas about the topic. I will monitor their discussion and will make corrections on the board after the feedback

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

I will ask the students to do exercise No.1 to check whether these statements are true or false in Saudi Arabia and discuss why some of them are false.

Clarification (4-6 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

I will ask the students to do exercise No.2 to match between the lines to the paragraphs in text and then write the answers on the board.

Controlled Practice (10-12 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

I will ask the students to work individually to answer the questions in exercise No.3 then I will ask them to discuss their answers with their new partner then I will take the students' feedback.

Semi-Controlled Practice (9-11 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

I will ask the student to hide the text and I will give them a Hand out for some countries to write down the customs for each country according to what they think about. "work in pairs" Then I will get the information and write their answers on the board then I will tell them to reveal the text to check their answers whether their guesses are right or wrong.

Free Practice #1 (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

I will ask the students to sit in a group of three and each group will have a different question from the other group. Group A - Think of two examples of bad manners in your country. For example in Britain it is considered impolite to ask people how much they earn. Group B - What advice would you give somebody coming to live and work in your country. Group C - "When in Rome, do as the Romans do" Do you agree or not? and why? Then I will number the students in each group and then ask the 1s, 2s and 3s to sit together and share their ideas with their group.

Free Practice #2 (6-9 minutes) • To provide students with an extra free practice of the target language

I will tell the students to sit in a group of three an tell the group a strange situation that they have faced while travelling abroad and what they've learnt from it. then I will ask the students to tell their partner's strange situation to a new pair and then we will add extra tips while travelling.

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