Gizem Akdemir Gizem Akdemir

Teaching Practice 4
Upper-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students practice speaking about awkward situations. In the beginning of the lesson, students are asked to look at some pictures about awkward situations and asked to guess the common point about the pictures. This is followed by a reading task which aims to get students to think of the answers for the awkward situations. As a sub-aim, they listen to the dialogues and repeat each phrase. Also, they are asked to pay attention to the polite intonation. Finally they are allowed to write dialogues as related to the topic and act-out their own dialogues as a speaking task.

Materials

Abc Handout (Dialogues)
Abc Tapescript
Abc CD-Audio
Abc Pictures

Main Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice through a discussion and dialogues in the context of awkward social situations

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide pronunciation practice for the phrases as a subsidiary aim

Procedure

Warm-up (3-6 minutes) • To get students interested in the topic

Teacher sticks some pictures about awkward situations around the class and asks students to find a relationship between the pictures after checking them.The students are allowed to discuss the common point of the pictures. The teacher writes ‘Awkward social situations’ on the board.

Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To get the students to think of some of the social situations

The teacher introduces the character Bella and gives the handouts.The students are asked to read the dialogues and discuss where she is and why the situations are awkward. (ex.1,pg.81)

Presentation (6-7 minutes) • To get the students to think of appropriate phrases

The teacher introduces some phrases and words that might be unfamiliar. Then the students are divided into 5 groups. The teacher gives each group a sheet of paper with ‘a speech bubble’. They are asked to write their suggestions about what she could say in a polite way.

Listening/Pronunciation (8-10 minutes) • To provide practice for pronunciation

The teacher hands out the tapescripts and plays the recording. She asks them to check their answers for each section and think about if their suggestions in exercise 1 were the same or different. Then the teacher elicits the unknown phrases, if needed. (ex2.pg.81)T:7.6 The teacher plays the recording for the second time. The students are asked to pay attention for polite intonation which is followed by a choral drilling. The teacher plays the recording and pauses after each phrase for students to repeat. (ex.2,pg.81) T:7.7

Speaking (5-8 minutes) • To get the students to use the target language

The students are asked to write and rehearse their dialogues, using some of the phrases in the transcript on page 168. They are allowed to work in pairs. Each pair writes dialogue about only one situation.

Feedback (5-7 minutes) • To get the students to practice speaking through role-playing

Each pair is asked to act out their dialogues for the class. (ex.3/b,pg.81)

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