Friends lesson , Vocabulary lesson
Upper intermediate level level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of friendship expresions in the context of friends
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide inference reading practice using a text about friendship expressions in the context of friends
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a friendship expressions in the context of friends
Procedure (17-30 minutes)
Teacher will write a quote on the board about friendship and ask questions about it. Ask Ss to work in pairs and each one will tell his partner about one situation that he or she found good friends beside them. Monitor and assist when needed. Get FBK from Ss.
Ask Ss to read the text again and then I will Ask them "Do you think Tina and Will were close friends or housemate?"and provide their answers by expressions from the article.Aak them to work in pairs and discuss their answers with each other.T moniters and assist when they needed. TGets FBK from Ss
T will ask CUQs (checking understanding questions) and elicit the answers from them to check the understanding the meaning of the expressions and give them yes and no cards to answer the questions by raising them andgive explaination for their answer e.g Did they have a lot in common? Did they get on badly? Are they still communicating?When? T will model and drill pronunciation orally or individually.
P.9 ,Ex.1 chest the handouts to Ss and ask them to complete expressions about friendship they can look at the text P.8.Ss will work individually to answer the exercise then they peer check answers together. T will promote early finishers to write answers on the board. T will check answers with the whole class if there are any problems.
P.9,Ex.2 Divide the class into two groups and ask each group to put the following summary of Tina and Will's friendship in the correct order. The both of the two groups compare their answers with each other before back to the text to check.T moniters and assist if they need. Twill check answers with the whole class.
Ex.3 P.9 Ask Ss to answer this question Give Ss time to think about their answers and compare their answers with a partener. T monitors and records any errors to deal with them later on the whiteboard.