Family
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Family vocab
Subsidiary Aims
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Reading, speaking
Procedure (38-52 minutes)
Prep: - prepare personal photos of your family - draw a medium-sized tree in one corner of the wb Steps: 1. Pick out photo of yourself and and hold up to the classroom and ask, “Who’s is this?” 2. After Ss correctly identify you, fix your image to the trunk of the tree 3. Next hold up the pictures of your parents, "who are they?" 4. Continue to grandparents, sisters, brothers, (children, spouse) 5. Listen for familiarity 6. Answer questions Ss might have 8. Stick photos on board around the tree
Steps: 1. Pass around half-sheet with pictures and captions 2. Demonstrate- tell Ss to read quickly- give them two minutes 3. Hand out questions 4. Demonstrate- Ask one St (from center) question 1 5. Have one St ask another St (from sides) question 2 5. Rpt step four
Steps: 1. Instruct class to read the captions under the photos 2. Split Ss into pairs 3. Tell Ss to read and answer the questions 4. ICQ- speaking? yes! writing? no. 5. Give Ss 5-6 mins to discuss questions 6. Bring class back together and review answers
Steps: 1. Divide class into three groups. Count 1, 2, 3 2. Have Ss find their groups 3. Draw table on wb with a woman, a man, and both- write questions: Is this a man? Is this a woman? Is this both? 4. Fix strips of paper on board with words of family members 5. Have students read the strips of paper 6. Picking up 'wife' Demo- Is 'wife' a woman or a man?- motion to each category 7. Demo- Is 'grandfather' is a woman or a man? 8. Demo- Are 'parents' woman, man, or both 9. Pass out strips 10. Instruct students to divide words up according to woman/man/both- in groups, decide if this is a woman, or a man, or both 11. ICQ- are we writing? no! 12. Give them 5mins to do this 13. Demo- ask a Ss come up to the board and put one strip in a category 14. Rpt. 15. Invite Ss to come until all the strips are under a category 16. Leave up on board, so they can use as a reference
Steps: 1. Point to my family tree and demonstrate the parts. 2. Pass around blank family trees for them to fill in 3. Instruct Ss to fill in their family trees with their information 4. Give them 5mins to do this
1. Write on the board- "Where is your father from?" "What does your brother/sister do? "What is your grandmother's name?" 2. Get Ss to ask me questions 3. Demonstrate using my family tree 3. Partner them off 4. ICQ- are we asking these questions?