New lesson plan: demo lesson cutting edge int language present tenses

Gareth Edwards

demo lesson cutting edge int language present tenses - intermediate level

demo lesson cutting edge int language present tenses
intermediate level

Description

demo poor lesson from book

Materials

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Main Aims

To provide review and practice of present tenses - simple / continuous in context of talking about people you know

Subsidiary Aims

To provide listening for specific information in context of talking about photographs and to recycle lexis of family and friends

Procedure (45-64 minutes)

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

To show some person photos and elicit questions from the students and answer questions.

vocabulary lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To expose ss to necessary target vocabulary

EX1 page 10 cutting edge int - ask ss to write relationship word into the correct group. Ask ss to check in pairs before WCFB

vocabulary practice (8-10 minutes) • to give ss an opportunity to practice target vocabulary in context of guessing game

EX2 page 10 cutting edge. Give HO to ss. tell ss I will read some instructions and I would like you to write the answer in any space. Give WC examples first and ICQs before moving on to next question. Can I write here? Yes Can I write here? yes ... Read instructions and students fill-in spaces. Demonstrate next part - ask ss ... who is ....? - He's my cousin. Add follow-on questions - how old is he? What's his job? Elicit further questions from class. What does 8 mean? My brothers and sisters. Who is your favorite brother / sister? .. Put students into groups of three and ask each other about the people. WCFB - ask ss to tell the class about one person in their group.

Exposure (3-4 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a a listening text in the context of talking about photos

Show ss the pictures and identify Katrina. Explain that Katrina is going talk about her birthday party and the people who came. Elicit ideas from the students - what is the person's relationship to Katrina? Danny - friend / boyfriend Ask ss to listen to the text and write the relationship next to the people. Check in pairs before WCFB.

Further exposure (3-5 minutes) • to give further exposure to the target language in context of listening

Ask ss to fill in the gaps in EX2 listening p10 cutting edge. Ask ss to check in pairs. Play listening again and let ss check answers. WCFB:

Highlighting (2-4 minutes) • To draw students' attention to the target language

Elicit from the ss the tenses in the text and examples. Ask ss to underline simple ___ and continuous ....... Elicit examples and Show on a power point - highlighting the structure.

Clarification (8-10 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

Show students pairs of sentences from the text He usually lives with his parents but at the moment he's staying with aunt and uncle Does he want to be a designer? He's doing a course ...? He doesn't really know what he wants to do. He's enjoying it. She really looks like you She comes and stays every weekend She's getting old She doesn't go out much They are looking at photographs Ask ss to match the verbs to their use in language analysis page 11 Ask ss to check in pairs and WCFB. Answers: A2, B1, C3, D5, E6, F4

Controlled Practice (5-8 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

Ask ss to complete EX1,2 page 11 - PW WCFB

Semi-Controlled Practice (5-8 minutes) • To concept check further and prepare students for free practice

show picture on powerpoint and elicit the idea of the differences. Elicit the idea of differences in tenses - the man has got black hair --- the man is reading a paper Give out different pictures. Ask ss to look at the pictures and find as many different

Free Practice (5-5 minutes) • To provide students with personalised free practice of the target language

Ask ss to write name of four people on a piece of paper. Demonstrate activity . Go back to photo of people in my life. Give examples of what he's doing and does . ... Ask ss to work in small groups and talk about people in their lives.