Do's and Don'ts
Elementary, A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about do's and don'ts in the context of first conversations
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide review of imperatives and adverbs of frequency in the context of first
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
- The T will greet the students and hangs the pictures on the board. - The T determines the pairs. - She gives the instruction; "Look at the pictures and discuss what they are about with your partner. - The T elicits some answers and involve students to other students' answers.
- The T gives the students the hand out where there are words about the audio. - The T asks students to match the individualy with the pictures from the previous stage. - The instruction is "Match the pictures with the words (The T does chesting and shows the location of the words). You have 3 minutes. - When the activity finishes, the teacher does some CCQ about the words if necessary. (e.g. which word can be te answer for how old you are?) - The T starts a voting for the most popular topics for theselves among the pictures and the words and in the end of the voting, she directs "why is this the most popular..." question for the first top three.
-The T says "now, we have a listening but first look at the worksheet for about 1 minute." -The T gives out the worksheets for specific information listening. -The T instructs the students; "Now listen to two girls talking about their ideas on the first conversations." - When the listening finishes, the T starts to elicit answers. - When she elicits answers, she directs some questions to other studets about their answers.
-The T says "now, we have tge same listening but first look at the worksheet for about 1 minute." -The T gives out the worksheets for gist listening. -The T instructs the students; "Now listen and answer the questions." - When the listening finishes, the T starts to elicit answers. - When she elicits answers, she directs some questions to other studets about their answers.
- The T gets the students into pairs. - The T gives the instruction: "Look at the worksheet!" (She shows the worksheet she gave earlier.) - She instructs; "think about the topics that are okay to talk about, discuss about them and write sentences about 4 topics like in the examples. You have 5 minutes. (The T writes down the instructions on the board and shows the students the examples.) - When the students are finished, the T makes groups and makes them discuss about their ideas in 5 minutes. - The T starts a discussion about the topic and gets individual answers. (The T adds the culture and personality elements)