Viktorya Patutina Viktorya Patutina

2 - Schools
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about 'used to' through guided discovery based on a reading text about schools. The lesson starts with a discussion about schools now and in the past. This is followed by reading the text about schools. At last, there is a controlled practice through sentence reformulation

Materials

Main Aims

  • To clarify and practice 'used to' to talk about things that regularly happened at school.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide written practice of 'used to' and 'didn't use to'

Procedure

Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To maintain the context from the previous lesson

T elicits context by asking questions about the education systems in England and Ireland.

Presentation of 'used to' (10-12 minutes) • To clarify meaning, form and pronunciation of 'used to'

1. T shows a photo of a modern classroom and elicits 1-2 things about it. In PW Sts describe more details about the picture. 2. T shows a photo of a traditional classroom from the past and elicits 1-2 things about it. In PW Sts describe more details about the picture. 3. T tries to elicit 'used to' during WCFB. T writes the elicited model sentence and drills its pronunciation. 4. T asks CCQ to check if Sts understood the meaning of the TL. 5. In PW Sts discuss the two pictures using the TL. 6. T conducts FB trying to elicit the negative and interrogative form of 'used to'.

Practice of 'used to' (10-13 minutes) • To provide controlled practice of 'used to'

1. Sts re-read the text about Irish schools in order to find examples of TL. 2. In PW Sts check their answers. 3. During WCFB T elicits sentences and writes them on WB. 4. Sts are given HO 2 and asked to reformulate sentences using TL. 5. T sticks photos of some people and asks Sts to guess how successfull they were in school. 6. Sts are divided into groups and asked to discuss what sentences represent which person. Then they stick their sentences on the wall. 7. T conducts WCFB

Production of 'used to' (10-12 minutes) • To provide freer practice of the TL

1. T asks Sts to write 2 sentences about their childhood or school life using the TL. 2. T collects the papers and redistribute them to Sts. 3. Sts are asked to correct mistakes and read aloud. 4. WC tries to guess who it is about.

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