Freddy A Romero Mérida Freddy A Romero Mérida

Productive skills: Speaking
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, Ss. will develop the skill of turn taking in conversations, asking and answering about when they were 13.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To introduce and provide practice of speaking for fluency in the context of talking about when you were 13.

Subsidiary Aims

  • • To help Ss. develop accuracy in the use of was/were and expressions when they were 13.

Procedure

Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Show a picture of teenagers (about 13) celebrating a birthday and ask students: What do you see? (individual work and share with the class). Ask Ss if they remember when they were 13?. Pair work, breakout rooms (1-2 min). Back to main session share answers with the whole class.

Exposure (6-8 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

- T. tells Ss. that they will listen to Jason ask his grandfather Albert, about his 13 birthday party. (T. plays the audio). - Students listen and answers this questions: 1- Where was he? (Tha grandfather) 2- Why was his birthday a special day?. (Individual work-2 min). - Ss. will compare their answers in pairs. (PW-BORs-2min). - Back to main session students share their answers with the whole class. - Teacher shows audio script and Ss check their answers. FB if necessary.

Useful language (10-12 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks.

- T. asks Ss to complete iin pairs a Google form with the positive and negative form of the verb to be in past (was, were, wasn't, weren't) (PW-BORs-2 min). - T. shares link. - Back to main sessions students share their answers with the whole class and T. shows correct answers and gives FB as needed. (2 min) - T. tells Ss they will complete in pairs, sentences with was/were (Google form). (IW-2 min) - T. shares link. - Back to main session, Ss share their answers with the whole class and T. shows correct answers and gives FB as needed. (2 min) - T. tells students they will listen to some sentences sentences and will decide where the stress is and pay special attention to the weak forms of (was/were). - T. plays the audio, shows correct answers and givesfeedback as needed. (2 min).

Productive task (10-12 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

- T. tells Ss. that they the will write questions with you/your about when they were thirteen or younger. They will answer the questions in the column YOU and will ask the same questions to their parters. (PW-BORs-4 min). - T. gives a demo and shares link with the questions. - Back to main session, T. tells students they will work wth another peer and different questions. (PW-BORs-4 min). - T. shares link with new questions. - Back to main session, Ss. share their answers with the whole class. (4 min9

Feedback and Error Correction • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language.

- While Ss. discuss the questions, T. writes down on a slide some sentences with errors related to the target language. - T. shares his screen and ask Ss. if they can identify the problems in the sentences and elicit answers by asking questions. (self-correction, peer-correction, teacher-correction)

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