Home is where the heart is
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson they should know new vocabulary associated with 'home' in the context of how it would be in the news.
Subsidiary Aims
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Understand the news better when related to properties/real estate.
Procedure (46-59 minutes)
- Project slogan 'Home Sweet Home'. - Elicit the word 'home'. Set context of what they like to do after a long hard day. - Drill the above mentioned phrase to correct pronunciation. - Pair them up and tell them to look at the questions projected, (favorite room, smells..) tell them to ask each other these questions. Demo if needed. - Monitor and listen - Then ask each pair to give their partners answers. NOT THEIR OWN.
Pre-teach vocab (cellar, semi detached house, commercial district, fireplace, suburbs, a park and a playground, neighborhood and description). - Cut up words and definitions, jumble them up and tell them to match it in groups. - Monitor and assist if needed. - Project the definitions with pictures ask them which one is for which word. - Drilling pronunciation for each word.
-Re-group them as A, B, C, D. -Set context of you wanting to buy a house and telling the realtor what features you want in the property. - Explain Ex-2a also tell them the first one is done as an example. - They can work in groups. - Monitor, then when they are finished, give the answer keys. - Group A only gets answer key for box A and so on. (tell this to each group when giving the key) - After they check, each group can give out answers for their own box for the rest of the class to hear.
- Give out property descriptions.Tell them to read alone. (1 min) - Project 2 pictures of houses. Tell them to match the description to the pictures. - Discuss in groups - W/C FB on why they matched to picture A or B.
- Give them virtual house tour checklist and tell them to tick the objects from the list they see in the video. - Show clip - Monitor to see if clip needs to be shown again. - Pass around a bowl with bits of paper tell them to take one. Some will be blank but 8 of them will have a number on them from 1-9. The ones that get a number have to come on the board and write one object they ticked on their list. - I will demo with no. 1
- Re-group with 1,2,3,4. - Tell them to work in pairs and tell their partner what they like to do when they come home after a long and tiring day and name at least 3 things. -ICQ: Will you name 3 things or 5? - Now tell them to discuss in a group and talk to each other. - Try open pairs FB.
- Will write error sentences on board that I heard. - Also have some back up error sentences on a slide. - Show either and ask them to discuss in groups which is correct/wrong. - W/C FB