Language Function : different ways of giving emphasis
upper-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Functional Language . To provide students with different techniques and ways in giving emphasis .
Subsidiary Aims
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• To make students aware of the importance of sentence stress in giving emphasis
Procedure (33-57 minutes)
Pus ss it pairs and ask them to discuss the first three question, look at the picture and guess what happened to Hannah.
Put ss in pairs and get them ignore the handwriting symbols which indicate missing words. SS will read the conversation quickly and answer the last question in Ex 1 p 68;.
Explain to ss that the handwriting symbols indicate missing words and they are going to lister to a conversation and they have to find the missing words . I will show them on the WB how they can write in the missing words , and then ss will do the rest individually and check their answers withe their partners .Put ss in groups to go through the analysis , give them time to discuss in groups and check answers with the class.After that i will go through the language
Put ss in groups of three do the first word on the WB and ask them to do the rest with their groups When they have finished I will use the first sentence and show how it can be more emphatic .Tell ss that there may be more than one possibility in some cases.
Ask ss to read the two examples with appropriate stress . ask ss to look at the tape script in their hands for the recording . Play the recording, pausing briefly after each pair of sentences to give ss time to mark the stress. Emphasis that they need only to mark the words that are specially stressed. Check answers as a whole class, playing the sentences again if students find this activity difficult
Put ss in groups and ask them to do exercise 9 pg. 46. Check answers in a whole class discussion .