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Practice
Pre-Intermediate level

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist listening practice using a text about living with your parents in the context of families

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a Discussion in the context of families

Procedure

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

Instructions: Take a couple minutes to write a few sentences on when you left home and where you went. Why did you go? For whom? ICQs: Are we going to be writing about living with our parents? no. Are we going to be writing about what happened after you decided to move out of your home? yes. Task: Students talk in pairs Pair Check: NA Feedback: nominate one member from each pair will share information about when their partners left home.

Pre-Teach Vocabulary (10-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible and to teach any blocking vocabulary.

Convey meaning: what do you call your brothers and sisters Elicit word: your siblings Check meaning:are these your cousins? are these you mothers or fathers? Model and CIC drill: Board word: Siblings Elicit syllables and stress: Highlight sounds: 1 Elicit form: noun

Listening (5-5 minutes) • to let students listen to get an overall idea

Instructions: listen to a story. decide if this is a normal situation. ICQs: do you have to listen to every word? no. do yo want an overall understanding of the text? yes. Task: Students listen and answer questions Pair Check: Feedback:

Detailed Listening #2 (10-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, listening tasks

Instructions: Listen to the text again. Answer each question with true or false. Correct the false questions ICQs: Do you need to write long answers? no. Do you need to answer true or false? yes Task: listen to the text in detail Pair Check: Feedback:

Speaking (10-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to expand on the text and practice speaking fluency

Instructions: Work in groups of three. Discuss how things are different in your home countries. ICQs: How long will you have to talk? Task: talk with partners Pair Check: Feedback: WCFB

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