Begüm Tufan
Describing Towns and Cities - Intermediate level
Describing Towns and Cities
Intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice, review and clarification of describing cities and towns in the context of a city
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of adjectives to describe a city
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To provide product writing practice of a text in the context of travelling somewhere
Procedure (23-45 minutes)
The teacher starts by releasing the topic of theday.The topic is Barcelona to explain descriptive adjectives for a town or city.She has also pictures about Barcelona.These pictures represent the vocabulary to be taught by eliciting.In terms of being a real place,it will be helpful to get their attention and give an idea on the tasks we will be covering during the lesson
Teacher gets the students work in pairs and she gives them cutouts including some questions about a city and she also asks them a main question ‘Which city would you most like to visit?’The students will have a discussion about their favorite places.After teacher gets feedback from students about their favorite places and reasons,she finishes this activity
T divides the class into 2 groups.Each group has 10 members and each group has 10 words.While they are playing,teacher monitors them.Because of just fluency speaking activity,teacher doesn't correct any mistakes during the game.When a group finishes first,the game will be finished by the teacher.
Teacher divides the class into 5 groups.Teacher shows the pictures of old and new Istanbul.These groups are writing about ‘ old and new Istanbul’.Teacher gives a time limit for them to finish.When they finish writing ,all the papers are hung on the wall around the class.Each group walks clockwise and they will find the best text a group wrote.
