Lost!
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide vocabulary cpractice of town in the context of library, shopping centre, bus station, bridge, art gallery, bars and retaurants, opera house and stadium.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy in the context of places in cities and directions
Procedure (47-64 minutes)
The teacher provides a lead-in that will get Sts interacting together in a way that provides interest and motivation. The teacher provides a set of questions about 'getting lost' (such as Look at the picture and discuss where are they?/ What are they doing?) and wants her Sts to discuss this topic in pairs.Then, the teacher monitors Sts closely then get some FB.
The teacher shows a hand-out and explains it to the class. After setting the task, Sts starts doing the exercise on their own. Then, teacher puts her Sts into pairs and they discusses their answers.
Teacher gives a map as a HO and attracks Sts' attention to this map. Then, she puts Sts into pairs then tells that one of the pair is a lost visitor and the other pair is a local. Then, lost visitor chooses a place in the map and asks how to go there from the school. Her/ his pair tries to tell the directions in TL and lost visitor notes the directions. Then, the teacher changes pairs and Sts discuss the directions with their new pair.
The teacher shows a HO to her Sts and explain what is written in the box. This is a quick check questions hand-out . Sts can choose any city optional and discuss that questions with pairs and note the answers then she switches pairs to check the answers.
The teacher shows some places in a town from the power point presentation and asks from her students to discuss this places ( Look at the picture and discuss what they can do in that place. ). Then, Sts practise pronunciation of the words by repeating the word that they can see on the board. After that, the teacher asks if they have the same or similiar places in their town and in pairs, Sts starts to discuss about that task.Then, to give Sts confidence, the teacher gives HO to the students. In that HO, there are words and pictures seperately.In pairs, each Sts has to match the words with pictures.
Teacher tells her Sts that they will listen audio tracks twice. First time, they will do gist listening and teacher wants them to listen the tracks and try to undertand. But, second time, teacher tells to her Sts that they have to take some quick notes about the directions that they'll hear and Sts need to circle on the map the places that they walk past. Then, the teacher plays the audio track from the coursebook twice and Sts listen three dialogues. They are about two football supporters want to get from the football stadium in Newcastle to the train station. When they are done, the teacher wants from her Sts to discuss their answers in pairs.
The teacher repeats all they have done during the lesson and check the pronunciations for back up.