Materials
Main Aims
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To provide process writing practice of a paragraph in the context of me and my most alike person.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of similarity words in the context of the teacher and her best friend.
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of me and my most alike person.
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
Tell the students about a story of me and my best friend going out together on a Sunday afternoon; what we wear, how we decide what to eat, what my friends and family said about our selfies. Show them some pictures of me and my friends. Let them guess which one in the pictures I'm talking about. Ask them to give justifications of their guesses.
In this stage, the students do a running dictation. The teacher scrambled the example paragraph into numbered sentences; stuck the cut-ups on the wall in the corridor. Divide the students into two groups. Let one student from each group be the runner, go to the corridor, read the cut-ups, come back and dictate them to their groups. Each group has a question sheet; they answer the questions by finding answers in the runner's dictation. There is a secretary who writes down the answers. Feedback: use the projector to give the example paragraph to the students, let them check the answers in group.
Bold the useful lexis in the example paragraph projected on the board. Task #1. Give students a matching handout which requires them to look at the paragraph, guess the meaning of the lexis and match them with the given definitions. Feedback: AK on the projector Drill the pronunciation and record the lexis on the board; ask the students to give the stress. Task #2. Let the students use the lexis to make their own sentences. Monitor closely, record the common errors. Check in peers if the sentences are right. Error correction on the board.
Give the writing topic - me and my most alike person - to the students. Let them write a paragraph about this topic using the useful lexis and more. Word limit: 130 - 150 Feedback: collect students' writings for a delayed feedback in the next lesson.
Let the students discuss in pairs. Give them two questions and ask them to find out the answer. Who is he/she talking about? What do they have in common? Feedback: ask one or two students to tell what he/she finds out about his/her friend. Error correction: monitor the groups when they're discussing, record some common errors, correct the errors in class after feedback.