Elementary level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a text about asking for directions.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of lexis related to directions.
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To provide fluency speaking in the context of asking for directions.
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To provide practice in rising and falling intonation.
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To provide fluency speaking practice in pronunciation, stress and intonation in the context of asking for directions.
Procedure (60 minutes)
- Teacher asks the Ss ; "Do you like to go shopping?- Have you ever gone shopping in a big mall? why?"
- Teacher asks the Ss; "Look at the map of Northgate Mall and elicits the map." - Teacher tells the Ss; " you are going to listen to a conversation in which someone gives directions to who asks the way."
- Teacher introduces and checks some unfamiliar words: bakery, milk shakes, escalators, luggage shop, car park, lifts. - Teacher Introduces directions: " left, right, past, straight ahead, in front of, across. using a picture or a chart.
- Teacher tells the Ss ; " say where the family went first, next,after that....." - Teacher tells the Ss ; " listen to whole conversation then find out what the family actually did" - Teacher plays the audio. - Ss write nothing yet.
- Teacher plays the audio again. - Teacher tells the Ss to use the empty boxes in the key to number the places in the order in which the family goes to them. - Teacher elicits answers orally. - Teacher tells the Ss ;" Name the shops in the key which the family did not go to ".
-Teacher revises the phrases in the text giving directions. - Teacher asks the Ss; " Follow the directions on the map; plays the audio. - Teacher monitors and gets feedback. -Teacher elicits from the Ss that the directions are all correct.
- Giving directions:- -Pronunciation, - Teacher points out the arrows over the phrases in the text. - Teacher models the intonation of the first phrase for Ss .slowing the phrase down. -Teacher asks the Ss to listen how the voice follows the arrows over the phrases. -Teacher plays the listening passage while Ss follow it. - Teacher plays the passage again, pausing after each phrase with an arrow. -Teacher asks Ss to repeat the phrase and intonation. Encourages them to move their hands in the direction of the arrow. -Teacher models the phrases again slowing them down so Ss can clearly hear the intonation. - Ss practice the intonation of the phrases in pairs. -Individual Ss reads out his directions to the class who follow the directions.
- Ss speak about how to describe the direction to their homes.