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Natural Events-Narrative Tenses
Intermeadite (B1+) level

Description

Ss will practice narrative verb foms in the context of natural events. They will practice through given grammar exercises and will also write their own experience of natural event.

Materials

Abc SsBk, TsBk, WkBk

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification and grammar practice of narrative verb forms in the context of natural events.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide a review of the vocabulary lexis related to natural events via grammar exercises.
  • To provide a writing practice in the context of experience about a disaster

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T gives the Ss some questions related to the video which they are going to watch. Ss watch a short video about Northern Lights and answer the questions while listening. T elicits some answers.

Test #1 (6-8 minutes) • To gauge students' prior knowledge of the target language

T delivers Ss a short exercise about narrative tenses. Ss circle the correct choice in the worksheet and check them in pairs. T elicits the answers from the Ss and highlights the correct ones on the board.

Teach (10-12 minutes) • To clarify areas of the target language where students had difficulty in the first test stage

-T uses two sentences from the text to highlight the differences between the narrative verbs. -Ss match the underlined parts in the sentences with their uses.- individual work. -T elicits and write the answers on the w/b. -T draws a timeline on the w/b to illustrate the correlation between three forms- past simple, past continuous and past perfect. - T asks CCQs to check if they understand. * Had we stopped the car after or before the traffic cop ? Before. *Had we stopped watching before the traffic cop ? No. -T checks Ss' understanding of the three forms by drawing a new timeline and asks the Ss to set it in the correct form again. -T asks the Ss to write the negative and question forms of the given sentences in groups. -Ss come to the board to write their answers. - T makes corrections where necessary.

Test #2 (10-12 minutes) • Check students' use of the target language again and compare with the first test

-T delivers the Ss another worksheet to check if they can use the tenses correctly in a similar exercise given before. - Ss do the exercises first individually, then check their answers in pairs. - T corrects them and gives feedback where necessary. - T asks the Ss to work in groups to write some lexis about the earthquake. *What happens during the earthquake? What can be the results? -T monitors them and help if they need. - Ss write them on the w/b. - T corrects them where necessary.

Free practice (9-11 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Ss are given an incident report form to write about their experience about a disaster. Ss will write and tell their experiences in pairs. T monitors and gives feedback where necessary.

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