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Teaching Practice 6
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about how to use 'used to' for past habits through guided discovery based on a reading text about cars. The lesson starts with a discussion about past habits. This is followed by looking the text again and exposing to target language. After then, students will be provided some activities for production of target language.

Materials

Abc Worksheet
Abc Pictures

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification of 'used to' for past habits in the context of cars.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide speaking practice for accuracy in a conversation in the context of past habits.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- Show students old Istanbul picture. -Ask them to guess what the life is like in old days - Show students a new Istanbul picture - Elicit the meaning

Exposure and Highlighting (4-5 minutes) • To provide context for the target language and draw students' attention to the target language through the text of 'My first car'

- Ask students to look at the text again. - Ask them which tense or tenses the text has mostly. -Tell students to find all 'used to' structures in the text and underline them in a minute. - After students underline the structures, write the sentence

Clarification of meaning,form and use of the target language (12-13 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

-Ask students these questions to check the meaning. * Are they driving out of town now? (no) * Did they drive out of town in the past? ( yes) * Is it one single action or repeated action in the past? (repeated) - Ask students these questions to check the form. * What do we use for things that happened in the past but not true in the present? (used to) * What comes after 'used to' ? - Drill 'used to' individually and chorally. -Ask students to work in pairs and give the instructions for activity 1 to check the meaning again. - Ask students to guess the negative form of 'used to' -Ask students to guess the question form of 'used to' - Clarify the negative and question forms of the 'used to'

Controlled Practice (6-7 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

- Ask students work in pairs and look at the sentences in the exercise 2. - Tell them replace the past simple with 'used to/ didn't use to' where it is possible - Give feedback

Free Practice (11-15 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

- Ask students to work in the groups of 3 - Tell them to think of their life and compare their life now with their life ten years ago. - Set the time limit -Monitor the students

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