Relationships
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation and discuss in the context of relationships
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide review of the simple present tense in the context of relation
Procedure (45-57 minutes)
Ask the Ss to draw a circle to the middle of a piece of paper and to write their name. Then ask them to think of four people they have a close relationship with, and to draw a line from the circle to each person's name. Tell them that the shorter the line, the closer the relationship. Tell them to include family members, best friends or boy/girl friends. ıCQs Does short line mean close relationship or not? Close relationship. Will you write 10 names? No In pairs, Ss show each other their relationship lines and tell each other about the relationships they have with each person.
Show the photo of Tarkan. Explain that there are somethings that Tarkan do in his private life. In pairs, they look at the information-gap paper (HO#1) and ask questions about missing parts of the table. As every student has a different missing gap, ask them to keep the paper secret. Will you show your paper to your pair? No. Will you ask questions from the missing part of the paper? Yes.
Stick qoutes (HO#2) on the board and ask them if they agree or disagree with the definitions of love and why? Make them work in pairs. Repair them. And then ask them to think about their own definition of love. Nominate volunteer Ss to write down their definition on the board.
Ask for Ss reading the quiz (HO#3) and choose True or False. Make them compare and talk about their answers. After then they calculate their true colours and find what colour is more than the others. And they they find their relationship style. Ask them discuss with their pair if they agree or disagree and why or why not.
Divide the class into two and put the disordered sentences on a chair seperately. Ask for rearranging and making question sentences.For each finished sentence, they get the right of taking another disordered sentence. For each ordered sentence, they get points. The group finishing first becomes the winner. ICQs Will you take all sentences from the chair? No. Will you make question sentences? Yes. At the end of this activity, hand out these questions (HO#4) as a whole, and make them ask these questions eachother and answer. If there is extra time, mingle students and keep the activity longer.
In repaired pairs, Ss talk about their best friends and describe them. Name, hometown, occupation, hobbies, phobias, being helpful, trustful, honest, etc.