New lesson plan: Being Human (contd) Unit 6

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Being Human (contd) Unit 6 - Upper Secondary 4 level

Being Human (contd) Unit 6
Upper Secondary 4 level

Description

In this lesson, Ss engage in listening tasks and review and practice zero and first coditionals. They also focus on word formations - verb to noun, adjectives and adverbs.

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Main Aims

For Ss, to review and practice word formations: noun to verb, adjectives and adverbs in the context of being human. For Ss, to practice listening for specific information in the context of being human.

Subsidiary Aims

For Ss, to review, identify, differentiate and practice zero and first conditionals in writing accurate sentences.

Procedure (62-80 minutes)

Feedback and Error correction - Home Work Review (10-12 minutes) • For Ss, to check understanding of the given task.

During this stage, tr gives Ss the autobiography they wrote on the topic Animals. For error correction: Tr conducts a race. Incorrect sentences are written on the board. Ss are to write down the correct sentence. The S who writes the correct sentence first is the winner. Tr. elicits the elements of a story hand from the Ss by questioning them: What should you keep in mind while writing a story? Tr writes down their answers on the IWB and then compares them with the ones on a story hand.

Lead in (5-6 minutes) • To check Ss previous knowledge. For Ss to predict the main idea of the listening actiivity.

A few pictures are displayed on the IWB. Ss are to discuss the following in pairs. What do you think has made each person successful? What according to you is success? Complete this sentence: The key to success is ............

Listening Practice • For Ss, to practice and improve listening for specific information based on the topic : success

Ss are instructed to listen to the recording and match people to the reasons for their success. PC and WCFB are done.

Post listening task (6-8 minutes) • For Ss, to draw inference from the conversation based on success.

Ss are instructed to discuss the reasons for the success of people mentioned in the recording. Ss are asked to choose four verbs, nouns, adjectives and adverbs to describe their success. Ss share their answers with the class.

Language Input : Word formation (8-10 minutes) • For Ss, to review and practice word formation, to change nouns to verbs, adverbs or adjectives.

The IWB is divided into nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs and the answers from the previous task are written on the IWB. If the word : talent is written in the noun column, tr asks Ss to write the adjective form for the same. She also questions Ss: Does the word talent have a verb or an adverb form? No Similarly other words discussed in the previous task are written in the correct columns and Ss are asked to write other forms of the same word. Ss are then questioned: How do you change from verb to noun, or adjective to adverb? (you write/change the ending) What are these endings called? Suffix Different suffixes used to change the verbs to nouns or adjectives to adverbs are written on the board.

Restricted Written Practice (10-15 minutes) • For Ss to practice word formation in writing accurate sentences.

Task 1: Ss are given a table and are asked to fill in the missing boxes with the correct form of the words. PC and WCFB are done. Task 2: Ss are given a HO with sentences and are instructed to correct w complete the given sentences with the correct form of the word. PC and WCFB are done. Task 3: Ss are asked to make four sentences with a noun, verb, adjective and adverb of their choice.

Feed back and error correction (5-7 minutes) • For Ss, to check the understanding of the target language.

Tr. monitors and notes down mistakes during the previous tasks. She writes incorrect sentences on the board and asks SS to correct them.

Restricted Written Practice (8-10 minutes) • For Ss, to review and practice zero and first conditionals in writing sentences accurately.

Ss are instructed to open their text books to page 67 and complete Ex 3 and 4. PC and WCFB are done.

Less controlled Written Practice (10-12 minutes) • For Ss, to practice and improve using zero and first conditionals in writing accurate sentences.

Ss are instructed to write 2 few openers, with zero and first conditionals. They swap the phrases with each other and complete the phrases. Answers are shared with the class. PC and WCFB are done.