John Kuti John Kuti

Nice to meet you
elementary level

Description

This lesson presents long and short vowels, two diphthongs and the idea of word stress. Since it is a first lesson there is some time for "GTKY" and also a few freer moments to help with defining the students' level and needs.

Materials

3ahbcsyrfi6z0tnspinb ho01 hello
Abc recording 1
L9ql8rmrteifetkzszcv ho02 conversation texts
Uwg22gvtbavz09olpnmp ho03 table handout
Jiwr8zxvqik5lituzod5 ho05 six sounds
Abc recording 2
V7vwbecrr2k3yiyyn5qq ho07 stress underline
Abc recording 7
Abc recording 8
Abc vowels and diphthongs

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of the differences between vowel sounds and practice of distinguishing them

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency practice with a chance for stronger class members to show what they can do

Procedure

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

T moves around the class saying Hi I'm John. Try some other phrases like "how are you?" "do you work or are you a student?"

exposure by listening (6-9 minutes) • To provide context for the target language through a situation

T asks what are they saying? hand out the pictures, ss try to imagine what the conversations are together with a partner. Then play the recording and identify which is which. Hand out the texts and listen again. Checking the answers.

Clarification (6-8 minutes) • To draw students' attention to differences in style.

Handout the table showing equivalent phrases. We can add in here "good evening" a bit more formal. Role-play with recording 2 sound effects; disco, (group of three) doorbell. psycho motel, pensioners on the street.

speaking preparation (4-6 minutes) • To prepare students for more meaningful practice

in groups think of questions people ask in situation A. T elicits some questions and writes up on board. ss should make copies of these to carry with them...

Free Practice (5-7 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

Give out name cards. Students mingle about and ask and answer questions.

six sounds (5-7 minutes) • to show the range of vowels, long-short and single-diphthong

T models the words on the table and drills them then add these words in the right place: name is thanks my we more difficult: juice cabbage they police man buy

presenting the other phonemic symbols (4-6 minutes) • to find out how familiar this is to students

The question here is just "what is this?" T gives out between pairs the symbol/ pictures for all the vowels and diphthongs. This is a sort of guessing game...what's the word? Test of vocabulary.

stress (6-7 minutes) • distinguish stress and length of vowel

write up coffee on wb The stressed syllable is louder, maybe also a bit longer or with change of pitch. demonstrate with rubber band. underline the CO give out task FB everybody with rubber bands. demonstrating.

extra bit about numbers in places (3-5 minutes) • needs analysis

gist question with recording 7 - what place is it? play the four recordings. what is the important number. play again and find the number.

saying goodbye. (3-5 minutes)

T says "it's time to finish". listen to two good friends... play recording 8. what can we say?

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