Recep Cetil Recep Cetil

some and any
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about ‘some and any’ through guided discovery based on a reading text about the story ‘Stone soup’. This is followed by a task finding food from exercise 1a that are put into the ‘stone soup’ story.Finally there is some controlled practice through filling in the gaps and free practice via asking and answering speaking activity.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide deduction reading practice using a text about food in the context of stone soup story

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification of countable and uncountable nouns in the context of food

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T asks questions about what ss ate yesterday and if they liked it or not. Why and why not?

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of the task and highlight useful words and phrases

unknown words: stone, tramp, it's a pity, knock, mean, saucepan, loaf, fetch, cellar. ss read the stone soup story and find the food from exercise 1a that the tramp put in the soup.

Task (8-10 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

ss choose six things from the list and make a meal for themselves.

Planning (6-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to plan students' reports

ss work individually or in pairs to make a meal for themselves in writing. ideas to help ss: What can we make from these kinds of food? Which items go together well? What do you need for a sandwich? What do you put in soup? What do you put in salad?

Report (6-8 minutes) • To allow students to report on how they did the task and how it went

Ss read out their meals to the rest of the class. Have a class vote on which meal they liked the best. Ask ss to identify the countable and uncountable nouns in their meal.

Language Analysis (6-8 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the task language

Ss complete sentences from the story at page 47. Then T asks ss for clarification of usage of 'some and any' and ss complete the table in 3b. Ss look back at the things in exercise 1 and say whether Tramp used each thing to make the soup.

Language Practice (8-10 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

Ss write 5 kinds of food or drink from exercise 1 without showing anyone and ask and answer with a partner to find out what's in their partner's cupboard.

Controlled listening practice (5-8 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

Ss hear three people in the picture talking about what they have for lunch. Ss copy and complete the chart in 5a.

Free practice (5-8 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the task language

Ss work with a partner to find out what he eats and drinks in a normal week in exercise 6a with the things provided.

Production (5-8 minutes) • To provide students with practice of the task language

Ss complete the chart and write about themselves and their partners trying to answer the question, 'have they got a healthy diet?'.

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