Abdessamad Hammami Abdessamad Hammami

At the market
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson Ss will practise countable and uncountable phrases using “some” and “any” in the context of shopping for food. Then they will listen to a conversation for specific information. Finally, they will do a role play in pairs (a customer and a seller).

Materials

Abc Handouts
Abc Whiteboard
Abc answer key
Abc video projector
Abc PPT
Abc CD player
Abc listening script
Abc Realia

Main Aims

  • By the end of the lesson Ss will practise countable and uncountable phrases using “some” / “any” in the context of shopping for food.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practise listening for specific information

Procedure

Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set the lesson context and engage students

T projects a picture of a Tunisian traditional market ‘What can you see?’ T elicits ‘stallholder’, shopping list’ T elicits some countable nouns: ‘apples, eggs’ / uncountable nouns like ‘milk, cheese, water” T drills: Whole class drilling then individual drilling T writes, 'stallholder' 'milk' 'apples'

grammar practice 1 (4-6 minutes) • Practise use of some/any and much/many

T projects the market picture of the student's book and make a demo T hands out the picture. Ss practise in pairs using the phrases displayed with the food at the market

grammar practice 2 (4-7 minutes) • Practise yes/no questions using of some/any and much/many

T projects the market picture of the student's book and make a demo Ss practise in pairs using the phrases displayed with the food at the market e.g. 'Are there any free range eggs? / Yes, there are.' 'Is there any bread? / Yes, there is some'

Listening for specific information (9-12 minutes) • To practice listening for specific information

T says, 'You are going to listen to a conversation between Piers, his mum and a stallholder at the market. I want you to listen and tick the things they buy from this list (show list). When you have finished I want to know what they don’t buy. What am I going to do first? (play the conversation). What do you do? (tick the goods / items the Mum buys). What will I then do? (play again the whole conversation). Checking in pairs. T gives answer key

Free Practice (11-15 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language in a more authentic task

T says, 'Like the shopping list I gave you I want each of you to write your own shopping list items – it should be the food you normally buy . What should you to do?/write a list of ten shopping items. SS write list. Split into pairs – stallholder and customer. Mime some representative target phrases. Distribute HO featuring the prompts. T creates three stalls using Ss' desks and realia T makes a demo with a confident S T monitors Ss' performance and takes notes of common errors to be corrected later on in an anonymous way.

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