City Life
Intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of city & country life
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification, review and practice of vocbulary related to different sights and sounds in the context of city life
Procedure (38-54 minutes)
T will distribute handout # 1 T will ask ss to work in groups and paste related words and phrases under the picture. T will ask the groups to exchange the sheets and match if both groups have the same words/phrases for both lifestyles. T will display answers on IWB and briefly talk about city and country life. T will play few sounds and ask the ss to recognise them. T will ask ss to tick mark the sound that they hear in the audio. T will ask ss if they hear these sounds in a country or a city? T will show a picture of the place where she lives (Personalisation) T will talk about the different sounds that she hears in the morning, afternoon, evening and at night. Demo & personalisation) morning: birds (early morning only), road cleaner, children going to school, school buses, horns afternoon: children coming back from school, lots of cars and buses. evening: children playing outside and ladies chit chatting. night; Ther's a sports club and a marriage hall near by, so I hear loud music and fire works almost every other day. T will distribut HO#2 and will ask ss to write the sounds they can hear where they live. T will ask ss to compare their answers and talk about: Where they live.... The sounds they hear..... If they enjoy the sounds they hear or not....
Preteach vocabulary words Display the words and their meanings on the board. Ask ss if they are familiar with these sounds. T will ask ss to listen to the poem and match the photos (A-D) with the verses (1-4) ICQs: Are you going to listen and match? (Yes) Are you going to write something? (No) T will ask ss to work in groups and talk about: What can the poet hear and see in each verse?
T will ask ss to match the word groups with correct explanation. T will ask ss to fill HO # 3, then 4 then 5. CCQs & ICQs to check instructions. T will ask ss to compare their ansers in pairs. T will provide answer key and WC FB
T will ask ss to get together in pairs and talk about whether they like city life or country life. T closely monitors all ss while they are talking and notes down few good sentences and few bad (wrong) sentences.
T gives feedback on the board T writes down few sentences and asks ss to select which ones are good and which ones are bad examples. Teacher does the correction with WC (eliciting & drilling)