samah samah

Banking, Customer Service and Telephone
CLB 2 level

Description

In this lesson students will practice writing a cheque and understand its related vocabulary. Additionally, they will develop reading comprehension skills through related topic "Telephone Fraud" in an online learning environment.

Materials

Abc LINC 2 Classroom Activities (digital version)
Abc Blank cheque templates (fillable PDF)
Abc Sample cheques with common mistakes (shared via screen share)
Abc Video conferencing tool (Zoom)

Main Aims

  • To enable students to practice writing a cheque and understand the related vocabulary in an online learning environment. To develop students' reading comprehension skills through a related topic, telephone fraud.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To enhance students' ability to apply banking vocabulary in real-life scenarios. To improve students' attention to detail in financial documentation.

Procedure

Lead in (5-7 minutes) • To generate interest to the topic and set the context

Elicit students' experiences with cheques via questions for discussion as follows: "How do you pay your bills?" "Do you use cheques?" "When do you use cheques?"

Set Context (12-15 minutes) • To introduce students to the topic

Display an image of a cheque on screen share and discuss its components (payee, amount, date, signature, memo line). Elicit their purpose and placement.

Pre-teach vocabulary related to writing the cheque. (7-10 minutes) • To Introuduce and clarify key vocabulary related to cheques.

Introduce key vocabulary: cheque, signature, memo, date, amount. Use interactive slides and real-life scenarios.

Practice 1 (13-15 minutes) • To enable students to accurately fill out a cheque using the appropriate vocabulary.

Students will receive a set of details for a cheque along with a blank cheque template. They will work in pairs in breakout rooms to complete it. I will join each breakout room to monitor their progress and provide guidance as needed. Afterwards, we will reconvene as a whole class, and I will provide collective feedback.

Practice 2 (10-12 minutes) • To find the difference between two cheques and develop attention to detail

Students will compare two cheques to identify key differences, such as the payers' names, dates, amounts, and other details. I will facilitate an open discussion to review and analyze these differences.

Skill using activity (13-15 minutes) • To enable students to apply their cheque-writing skills in practical, real-life scenarios

Students will participate in real-life cheque-writing scenarios in breakout rooms (e.g., rent payment). They will be paired and assigned to breakout rooms, where they will complete a blank cheque for rent payment to a landlord. I will join each breakout room to monitor their progress and provide guidance as needed. The activity will conclude with collective feedback to the whole class.

Reading Comprehension / Lead in (5-7 minutes) • To introduce the students to a reading activity that helps expand their vocabulary and comprehension in the context of banking

Students will participate in a reading comprehension activity on telephone fraud. To activate their prior knowledge and encourage discussion, I will start with a warm-up by posing the following discussion questions: 1-Have you ever heard of telephone fraud or scams? 2-Have you ever received a call claiming that you won a prize? 3-Have you ever shared your bank information or account number over the phone?

Pre-teach vocabulary (8-10 minutes) • To facilitate comprehension and prevent students' blocking on unknown vocabulary in the questions or answers

Pre-teach the following vocabulary: fraud - hang up - shipping - broke

Reading comprehension (13-15 minutes) • To enhance students' ability to read and understand key details in a text related to telephone fraud

Students will be encouraged to read the passage individually and answer the following questions: 1-Who is Chad? 2-What does Chad do when he receives calls from unknown people? 3-How much money did the caller ask Alex to send? 4-Did Alex send the money? Why or why not? 5-Do you think Alex was lucky? Why or why not? After completing the questions, students will participate in a class discussion to review and analyze their answers.

Follow up activity (10-12 minutes) • To develop students' ability to understand the logical flow of a text

Students will work collaboratively in groups of three to rearrange a jumbled passage on telephone fraud in breakout rooms. Once they have completed the task, they will reconvene as a whole class to discuss and review their answers.

Closure (3-5 minutes)

Review key takeaways and praise the students for the good work

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