New Headway 4th Edition Beginner, Oxford University Press
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice, review and clarification of third person in the context of cities and countries
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of vocabulary of cities within countries
Procedure (39-51 minutes)
Use Listening 2.4, page 13, activity 1 to set context and raise learner awareness of target language. Monitor and provide feedback and error correction as whole class.
Use Listening track 2.5 to elicit target language sentences from learners. Listen and repeat the questions. Highlight written form on the board. DRILL. Highlight What's and Where's: DRILL.
Page 13, part 3: Drill converstaion with whole class. (either use page 13, part 1 or consider providing learners with "people profile cards" similar to page 13, part 1) so learners can answer questions (what's___ name/ where's _____ from?) about the people in the profiles. Monitor. Provide feedback and error correction as a whole class, after student group time.
Consider asking "what is Istanbul" to elicit 'city' and "what is Turkey" to elicit 'country'. Provide learners a matching activity to decipher cities and their countries (consider including the items on page 14) Group check. Pose questions to learners to elicit "Where is (city name)" and "It's in (country name)" Highlight these sentences on the board. DRILL. Highlight 'Where's' and 'It's' meaning and pronunciation.
Page 14, part 2 : Have students practice saying dialogue using the pictures. Monitor and provide feedback and error correction as whole class.
Have learners get into groups of 4. Have each student pick one person the the photo (page 14, part 2) and present to each other.