Rudo Meda Rudo Meda

Fortune cookie
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

Guided discovery on the future

Materials

Abc Audio file - contracted pronouns and drilling
Abc grammar exercise adapted from coursebook

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of the language of prediction in the context of considering one's own, as well as humanity's future

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice in accurately speaking the target language in the context of the future

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (2-3 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- Write the word 'prediction' on the board.put a question mark. Elicit definition. (- someone's idea of what will happen) Ask them what their prediction of what we're going to do next is? - Solicit responses Take students outside the classroom into the central hallway. Ask: - Who ate lunch today? - Who wants desert? - usher them in with "Please" an arm outrstetched. - In powerpoint, show photo of a Chinese restaurant with 'Rudo's Shanghai cafe' as the name. - "Welcome" "Chinese/ American tradition" with a picture of a fortune cookie on it, on folded cardstock on top of a silver tray. Pass around ziplock bags with cookies, and then a rolled up fortune inside them. Hold up my own bag and my rolled up fortune to demonstrate what I want sts to do. When everyone has a cookie and a fortune, open my fortune up, and read it aloud saying 'this is the prediction about my future'.Get them to share theirs with their partner.

Test #1 (5-10 minutes) • To gauge students' prior knowledge of the target language

Show sheets with a 'will' example and a 'might' example. might = will? y? n? why? (Do they mean the same things? ) Elicit difference. - Both are future tense - Both have some degree of certainty. - ‘Will has definite certainty’ S: WC Whose fortune was about Love? Money? Job? Friendship? Friendship people in that corner please. Love - hold up a heart sign. Find signs symbolizing each of the other groups. hold up a job sign and let the people in that group come and get their sign, and group themselve. Once people are settled, . - Hand out cline listing words: and ask group to fill in the blanks - Can use other words with the verb (show cline) to show degree of certainty Students fill in blanks on cline - Elicit what those types of words are called (adverbs) - Groups do ex. to determine where in the sentence those adverbs are placed. Sentences are cut up into individual words, and students have to formulate them, placing the adjective in the correct position. Provide an example.

Teach form (6-10 minutes) • To clarify areas of the target language where students had difficulty in the first test stage

Prediction = _______________ + verb _ Ask SS to work in groups and find 2 examples of predictions in the text just read with Ebrar. - Contractions- Listening Ex. 2.4 In diff. pairs, SS work through these examples, checking the correct ones, and fixing the wrong ones. : I'll always remembering I'll never living live You won't to become rich ...our teacher wills give... Sts come up and write answers on board. - Split into 'Fortune cookie' Groups again Use a highlighter to mark three times where you find words that can be contracted in Text "4th International Futorological Conference" that Ebrar used. Students formulate contractions and check pre-posted and pre-coverd answer sheets on classroom walls. - Drill using tape, ex. 2.4

Free practice (5-10 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Sts work in pairs to talk about what they think will happen in 2015 , Try to use some contractions Eg. My friend’s baby will turn 1 on July 3. I’ll get a job as an English teacher. I might come back to Turkey on holiday

Delayed Error correction (5-7 minutes) • Check students' use of the target language again and compare with the first test

write words/ phrases up on whiteboard Correct as a class - Drill pronunciation, stress patterns, and intonation

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