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TP3
Elementary level

Description

Students will practice speaking skills in context of booking a hotel, staying at a hotel and telling a friend about their holiday.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide accuracy and fluency speaking practice in a booking a hotel and interactions at a hotel in the context of being on holiday
  • To provide product writing practice of a writing a letter to a friend in the context of telling about a past holiday

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice and review of travel and hotel vocabulary in the context of being on holiday

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-3 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students in the task of Booking a hotel for holiday.

Tell them we are going on holiday. We are going to Winchester. What is the most important thing when going on vacation. What do we need to do when we go on holiday Elicit from students that we need a hotel. But, before we go, we must pick a hotel and make a reservation. Have the students focus on the pictures of four hotels.

Exposure (5-7 minutes) • To provide a model of sentence production expected in coming roll-play task

What kinds of things are you looking for in a hotel? First elicit from students what they might want in a hotel. Then, focus the Ss on the amenities pictures and further elicit ideas from students until all are listed in Exercise 1. Transportation, Rooms, Smoking, Credit Cards, Telephone, Breakfast/Dinner, Room service, private bathroom, children, animals/pets, evening entertainment.

Useful Language (5-10 minutes) • Students to try to form sentences with given TL to use in Free Practice

Elicit from students how we might ask about ammenities. Give a few useful phrases to ask about room service, children, pets, room types etc. Drill key phrases with a sentence including an ammenity. For example: You don't have a car, but need to go to hotel. Is there_(transportation)___? You smoke, May I __(smoke)___? You want to eat breakfast at the hotel OR in your room. Can I _(eat dinner in the restraunt)____? You have children. Is it ok if I _(bring my children)____? First, let's review the information: Teacher allows the students 2 minutes to read their hotel information.

Productive Task(s) and Feedbacki (5-7 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice booking a hotel

OK! Let's book a hotel! First, teacher and a student will example Roll-Play Teacher will be the customer holding info from Exercise 1. Student volunteer will be holding the picture of a hotel from Exercise 2. Ss Roll Play: Ss take turns being hotel personnel and customer calling. Teacher will monitor and help students when they need.

Exposure (3-5 minutes) • provide Ss vocabulary necessary to interact with hotel clerk

Ok, now we are at the hotel, on holiday. You will talk to the clerk at the hotel. Clerk: Act out the clerk sitting at the desk. Elicit from students what they forgot OR what they want to do at the hotel. Bring realia: if they forgot a toothbrush, the clerk can give them a toothbrush, towel, alarm clock etc. What do you want to do? Get room service, eat, go to town, etc.

Useful language (3-5 minutes) • Ss will have the opportunity to put TL together in a sentence form

Giving useful language, help students to form questions to ask the clerk. Using the same useful language sentence structure, Ss and Teacher will create a few examples of questions for using those amenities. Teacher will elicit requests from the students and show the class the realia to help with a couple examples. Hello, I forgot _(a toothbrush)___, may I have one? Hello, Can I (get transportation) to the city? Hello, Is it OK if I eat breakfast now? How do I find the city (on the map)?

Productive Task and Feedback (5-7 minutes) • Provide Ss opportunity to practice interaction with hotel clerk and receive services

Roll Play a customer and the clerk interaction. Ss will take turns being the clerk and the customer asking for ammenities. Realia will be provided by teacher for the students to use. Teacher monitors and helps students as needed.

Exposure and Useful Language (3-5 minutes) • Give Ss the past tense form of questions so they will be ready to answer in an email

Ok, we have come home, our holiday is finished. Did you have a good time? Bad time? You may want to tell a friend about your holiday. Students will think about telling a friend, and writing them an email about how their holiday went. Teacher will give the students the holiday interview worksheet from previous lesson. Also teacher will focus the students on the Useful Language to help with formulating sentences. Students will use the questions to help them form simple past tense answers to help them write to a friend telling about their holiday.

Productive Task and Feedback (10-15 minutes) • Provide Ss opportunity to pracice writing productive skill of writing an email in past simple

Students will write an email to a friend about their holiday experience. Teacher will monitor while the students are writing providing immediate feedback and helping by giving grammar aid and vocabulary help and feedback. Teacher will also notice common and specific mistakes seen/heard/anticipated and write them on the board. The teacher may also write a couple good examples of nice language seen/heard/anticipated.

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