TP6
Upper Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of the modifier quite in the context of lottery
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of luckiness
Procedure (49-69 minutes)
What was the text about? -- Lotteries Have you ever won a lottery? Story about me winning the lottery last year. "I felt quite lucky" - eliciting the meaning of quite
1) Instructıons on PPP: Work individually. Look at the text and find examples of "quite" 2) monitor and decide 3) FB Elicit the meaning & form If they have the main idea clarify only the gradable and ungradable part, have them read the rest on the PPP slides and pass on to the semi-controlled exercise
Introduce gradable vs ungradable adjectives Go over the necessary PPP slides Use CCQs: Why do we need the modifier 'quıte'? -- to intensify or weaken the adjective or verb ıt precedes Give me some examples of gradable and ungradable adjectives. How does a modifier 'quıte' affect each? Give me some examples of quantifiers? --a lot, a bit,some How does a modifier 'quite' affect them? What should we pay the most attention to? - the context and the stress
Choose whether to use both tests or just the semi-controlled one
1) Instructions: Grade yourself on the scale from 1 to 5 5-you totally agree, 1 - you completely disagree 2)Give out the personality test and give a few minutes 3) Collect the tests and let each choose one out of the pile 4) İnstructions on PPP: Use the modifier "quite" to describe the person to your partner 5)Monitor and do some delayed error-correction on WB 6) FB
1) Instructions on the PPP: Find the person and find out why does he/she feel lucky/unlucky? Why does he/she like playing lottery? Why does/doesn't he/she think that the chances of winning a lottery are very small? 2) Feedback