Carolina Espinosa Carolina Espinosa

My favorite thing
A1 level

Description

A demonstration lesson on writing subskills to raise awareness of capitalization and punctuation to make the piece clearer and more accurate. This will be followed with structured practice and a writing task.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide product writing practice by describing a personal object in the context of My Favourite Thing.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To clarify and practice useful sentence structures for describing personal belongings.
  • To review the correct use of capital letters and punctuation in writing.

Procedure

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

1. Show images of personal objects (e.g., phone, book, car, pet). 2. Ask students: What is your favourite thing? Why do you like it? 3. Students think about this questions indivudally for 2 minutes. 4. Class feedback: Volunteers share answers.

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading

1. Share Jackie, Eddie & Michelle’s texts (Google Forms). 2. Quick reading task (Gist): Match the text with the picture (Google Forms). Answer key: Photo A → Text 3 (Michelle) Photo B → Text 3 (Jackie) Photo C → Text 2 (Eddie) 3. CCQ´s Answer questions about the texts: What is Jackie’s favorite thing? Her favorite thing is her car, a Triumph TR3. What color is Jackie’s car? Jackie’s car is green, which is her favorite color. What is Eddie’s dog’s name? Eddie’s dog is called Prince. How old is Prince? Prince is about five years old. What brand is Michelle’s mobile phone? Michelle’s mobile phone is a Nokia. What can Michelle’s phone do besides calling? Her phone has games, email, the Internet, and a great camera. 4. Highlight capital letters & punctuation (students underline examples in texts).

Useful Language (7-8 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

1.Show the sentences from Exercise 3 (Google Slides or Jamboard). have you got helen’s cd player? my brother has got a new car. i think it’s a ford. i’ve got a sony tv and dvd player. juan’s from spain and his wife’s from the usa. my address is 13 richmond road, melbourne, australia. i haven’t got a german car. my car’s japanese. 2.Pair activity (BORs - Breakout Rooms) Students work in pairs to rewrite each sentence with the correct capital letters and punctuation. Answer key: Have you got Helen’s CD player? My brother has got a new car. I think it’s a Ford. I’ve got a Sony TV and a DVD player. Juan’s from Spain, and his wife’s from the USA. My address is 13 Richmond Road, Melbourne, Australia. I haven’t got a German car. My car’s Japanese. 3.Whole-class discussion: Teacher elicits answers from students and writes the corrected sentences on the board/Jamboard. Highlight key capitalization rules: Proper names: Helen, Ford, Sony, Juan, Spain, USA Brands: Sony, Ford Countries/Nationalities: Spain, USA, German, Japanese Sentence beginnings: Always start with a capital letter. 4.Concept Check Questions (CCQs): Do we use a capital letter for “cd player”? (No) Do we use a capital letter for “Nokia”? (Yes - it’s a company name) Do we use a capital letter for “my”? (No - unless it’s at the beginning of a sentence)

Productive Task(s) (12-15 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

1. Show writing task rubric (Google Slides): Students describe their favourite thing using prompts. ( Tutor gives a demo) 2. Write in Google Docs (individual work, 10 min). 3. Encourage students to use at least one example of: - Capital letters correctly (e.g., Nokia, Internet). - Punctuation (full stops, commas, apostrophes). - Sentence structures from the lesson.

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

1. Encourage Ss. to show their activity to conduct OCFB 2. Checklist criteria: - Did they use capital letters correctly? - Did they use punctuation correctly? - Is their description clear? 3. Class discussion: Tutor highlights common errors (DEC - Delayed Error Correction).

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