Carolina Gutiérrez García Carolina Gutiérrez García

Grammar Lesson
Elementary level

Description

Students learn how to make yes/no questions.

Materials

Abc Materials

Main Aims

  • To enable students to better understand yes/no questions.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To enable studenrs to develop their listening skills in the context of a text about search engines and technology.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To engage students in the topic of the lesson.

Show students a photo of a photo of someone cancelling plans via text message. Teacher then asks students: - What do you see in the photo? - What does the photo tell you? - What does the text say? Students respond. Next teacher asks them: - Have you ever been in this situation? - How do you feel when this happens to you? Students respond. Teacher tells that changing arragements will be the lesson for the day,

Content Preparation (8-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the content of the task.

Students listen to a phone conversation between two friends, Pedro and Sara, and complete 6 extracts from the phone conversation. Each extract has a gap that students need to fill in with predetermined words. The teacher plays another audio that says the answers to the previous actitivy. Students listen and check if their answers are correct. Then, the teacher tells students to say the correct sentences aloud.

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

Students do a matching activity. They match the four paragraphs of the text to their corresponding headings.

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

Elicit students to say how they would ask someone if they did something. Example: - So, how would you ask someone if they turn off the computer? This would give them the chance to mention a yes/no question in the past simple form. After they've done that, you tell them that what they just said is called a yes/no question in the past simple and that those are used to check if someone did something. Then, you introduce the form with a table that shows the questions and the short answers.

Controlled Practice (8-10 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Students rewrite sixyes/no questions in the correct order. Once they finish, yopu check their answers. Then, they will listen to an audio about Larry and Sergey's lives and they will answer the yes/no questions they rewrote in the previous activity. All of the students will work on the same slide but each one will anwer only one question. Next, they do a pronunciation activity. This activity consists of them finding the stress in words realted to the text and audio and collocating them in one of the following boxes: -Stress on the first syllable -Stress on the second syllable -Stress on the third syllable

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

Students work in pairs. Each students asks two yes/no question to their partner and they answer with short answers. They can ask follow-up questions to make the free practice more dynamic.

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