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Cold Comfort- Health Idıoms
upper intermediate level

Description

In this lesson the Ss will have the chance to learn new vocabulary and idioms, practice reading and speaking skills.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To introduce and give practice in idioms related to health in the context of “Bill of Health”.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practice reading to deduce meaning from context. To give practice in spoken fluency.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Review some of the health related vocab from the first lesson. Ss discuss and recall as many words as they can in groups – the team with the most words wins. Ask groups the vocabulary they remember. Take w/c feedback

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of the task and highlight useful words and phrases

Give Ss a reading text including vocabulary and idioms. In pairs/small groups tell the Ss put the story in order. Monitor and help where needed. Once they finish tell Ss to go the w/b with the larger set to put it in order as an ans key. Check all Ss agree. Take w/c FB

Task (8-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Give Ss the definitions in ex 2 & get them to replace the idioms in the story. Use the model on the w/b for FB – Ss can come to the board & write up the correct answers. Check w/c & deal with any questions.

Planning (6-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to plan students' reports

Give Ss the quiz from p 143 – Ss do the quiz alone Get the Ss work in pairs to compare their answers & give reasons for their choices. Take FB on their answers

Report (6-8 minutes) • To allow students to report on how they did the task and how it went

Ss in pairs/small groups discuss & come up with descriptors for the scores in ex 4 – assess themselves & answer the questions. Take some w/c FB

Language Analysis (6-8 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the task language

In groups of 3, Ss arrange the cards in a circle on their desks with the words/idioms face up. Tell them to decide on a starting point. Ss take turns to throw a die & move clockwise round the cards. Wherever they land, they have to define the word/idiom & then turn the card over to see the definition & check. They continue doing this in turns – each time turning the card landed on over, so that sometimes they’ll land on a definition & have to give the word/idiom & sometimes they’ll get the word/idiom & have to define it. Let them play for a while & then collect the cards back.

Language Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

Show slides to help them visualize the idioms. Check by calling out either words/idioms or definitions & getting Ss to give you required answer.

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