5B - A weekend break
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Main Aims
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To help students to practice the TL through different listening and speaking activities in context to the lesson "a weekend break" about hotel.
Subsidiary Aims
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To help students to improve their fluency for the TL through speaking skill.
Procedure (22-35 minutes)
- T tells her bad experience about hotels - like room is not clean, cold shower, bathroom is not clean, and etc. - Ask SS to work in pair and tell their best or worst experience in hotel. - T asks S to tells their partners best or worst experience about hotel. - This will brainstorm SS and help then to built their concept for the listening activity.
- Ask SS to look at the photo. Elicit any information SS can see. - Explain that the hotel is in Brighton (a popular seaside holiday resort in the south of England). - Ask SS to imagine that they are staying there. Do they think it will be a nice hotel? - Would they like to stay there? Elicit reasons. - T can later remind SS of their first thought after they listen to the audio and the guests experience.
- Write on the board: programme, hotel, people, jobs, why? - Tell SS they will first listen to the opening of the programme. ask them to find out: name of the programme, the name of the hotel, the name of the two people, the job of the two people, why they went to the hotel. - Play the audio (SFP, p-48, audio-1.40) and then get students to check their answers in pairs and then with the whole class. - Tell SS that they will listen to part of radio programme again and this time they will listen and tick the problems they hear in the activity 2 (SF,Sbk page - 48).
- When the SS are clear about the basic situation, T continue with rest of the exercise. - SS listen to the recording again and put the even in the order that they happened - in activity 3 (SF,Sbk page - 48). - SS check their answers with the WC. - SS work in pair to take the roles of Nicki and Gavin and retell the story as if it happen to them. (T gives role play handout).
- Put SS into groups of four: Student-A and B are the hotel owners - they can decise if they want to have a wonderful hotel or a terrible one. - Student C and D are the guests and radio reporters - they can decide to be positive and friendly or negative and suspicious. - T will write the following words on the board: room, price, key, lift, windows, view, bed, clean, shower, food, door. - T tells SS who they are and that students C and D have just arrived at the hotel. They should book in, look at the room and ask lots of questions. - SS can use the words on the board to remind them of possible subjects. - At the end of the activity, SS can give a brief report on the hotel to the WC.