HOLIDAY
ELEMENTARY level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To used the vocabulary to address the listening. Ss practice integrated skills speaking for fluency and listening for gist,specific information in the context of Holiday activities
Subsidiary Aims
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.To make student practice lexis, speaking for fluency and listening for gist. .To create awareness of using lexis to address the listening.
Procedure (30-47 minutes)
Teacher writes on the white board 'HOLIDAY'' stick some pictures of different places people go for tourism or on holiday. Put students in pair ask them to discuss where would they like to go on holiday. Monitor- Pay attention to get any point, error for feedback.
Teacher sticks pictures of different places tourist or people go.Then give students time to think of places where tourist or people go in their country and what they do there. Ss work in pairs and compare places they wrote down e.g. Fisherman's wharf: go fishing Alcatraz Island: go to the beach
Focus or engage students on the HOs to work on their own and stick the words phrases they know. check answers with class. Then teacher highlight pre-teach some lexis that students might find difficult to understand.Then clarify meaning, form and pronunciation e.g. sightseeing , skiing. sunbathe e.t.c. Highlight or point out phrases that follows go: go for walks, go fishing,go sightseeing,go to the beach. Model and drill the words.Teacher ask some CCQs to clarify student understand meaning e.g. what would you like to do in your free time: where did you spend your last holiday? What did you do ? Did you have a good time?
Give clear instruction engage students to chose what they do on holidays. After they chose the word put them in pair to talk about Where and what they do on holiday e.g. Did you travel by public transport? What did you do? go swimming, go on boat trips.e.t.c
To make Ss practice listening for gist and specific information. Teacher tell them they will listen to a conversation of some people. Then focus student on the handout and put them in pairs to match the activities on the HOs from the listening conversation .Then play the CD again for student to check answers.
Put student into pairs. Both Ss chose a holiday place that their partner doesn't know.Encourage Ss to chose places in countries different from their own if possible. Then Ss work on their own and decide if they can or can't do the things in the list of the holiday place they chose.then ask some CCQs to check if they understand e.g. where would like to go? what can you do in the place you chose for holiday? why would you like to do that?