Sara Elforjani Sara Elforjani

Controlled Oral Practice
ICELT level

Description

In this lesson, teachers learn about controlled oral practice through doing some activities and playing games as students. The lesson starts with a warmer where teacher compete to win. This is followed by a set of controlled oral activities about different language points, each followed by feedback. Finally, a general discussion will be held to give the teachers the opportunity to share and to exchange their own knowledge and ideas about controlled oral practice.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide teachers with the necessary knowledge about controlled oral practice.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To let the teachers know how controlled oral activities can be done.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To make the teachers active and ready for the session

T divides teachers into two groups, nominating one teacher from each group. The nominees sit on a chair in front of the opposite team. T gives instructions and pays attention to the teachers as they are doing the warmer. In this warmer, teachers have to ask Yes/ No questions to the nominated teacher to figure out the word which she thought of. The first team guesses the answer wins. CCQs # Are you going to think of a concrete or abstract words? # Are you going to ask the nominees Yes/No questions or Wh/ questions? # How many questions can each group ask?

Exposure (15-20 minutes) • To get trainees analyze controlled oral practice activity.

In this activity, teachers will learn about one of techniques followed in teaching vocabulary. Target adjectives will be elicited and they will be written on the board. Trainer checks understanding and then drills target language. To contextualize language trainees will put the target adjectives in sentences.

Exposure (15-20 minutes) • To get trainees analyze controlled oral practice activity.

In this activity, teachers will learn about one of techniques followed in teaching grammar. Target language will be elicited and they will be written on the board. Trainer checks understanding and then drills target language. To practice the target trainees will put the grammar point in sentences taken from a miming game.

Exposure (15-20 minutes) • To get trainees analyze controlled oral practice activity.

In this activity, teachers will learn about one of techniques followed in teaching functional language. A jumbled dialogue will be given to the trainees to put in order. Trainees checks answers from the whole dialogue on the board. Then, they practice the dialogue and trainer monitors and takes a stripe once in a while till all stripes are gone. Two volunteers will try to have their dialogue in front of the whole class.

Feedback (15-20 minutes) • To get feedback from the teachers.

A general discussion will be held to sum up all about controlled oral practice by throwing some questions. Trainer gets feedback at the end. Questions to discuss: # What are the advantages and disadvantages of controlled oral practice? # What is the purpose of controlled oral practice? # What makes a good practice activity? # Do you correct students' mistakes in controlled practice activities?

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