Mehtap Çetin - Food, Drinks, Sports - Likes/Dislikes - Present Simple
Beginner, Level A1,A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of the present simple (positive, negative and question forms for I/you/we/they) in the context of food, drinks and sports
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of asking questions and giving answers in the context of the present simple
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To provide practice of likes and dislikes in the context of food, drinks and sports
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To provide practice of short answers of the present simple using Do and Don't in the related context
Procedure (38-49 minutes)
T hangs out some food, drinks and sports pictures on the WB. Hangs out the names of the pictures on the walls randomly. T asks students about their favourite food, drinks and sports. Show one of the pictures on the board and elicit the name of the thing. Ask them to stand up and find a name for each picture Grab it and put it under the correct picture. ICQ What are you doing now? How many names at once? Where to put it? Ask some of the pictures and eliticit them.. Listen to the track 5.1 unit 5 for correct pronunciation.
T chooses two of the pictures and puts one positive smiley for the thing she likes and one negative smiley for the thing she doesn't like. Using the gestures and mimes T introduces 'I like ice cream.' and 'I don't like football.' (intonation is important here.) Play track 5.2 and tell Ss to repeat the sentences. Drill 'I like ice cream.' 'I don't like football.' Then put a question smiley on the board and elicit question form. Do you like ice cream? Do you like football? Tell them to ask the question using one of the lexical items on the board to the person next to them.
Hand out the worksheet 'Find someone who ....'. Ss will find some who likes or don't like the items written on the worksheet. Ss will mingle and use 'Do you like ....?' 'I like ...... . I don't like ...... .' with mimes and gestures. After they finish ask the class to elicit They/ We like... They/We don't like.... WC
Show Harwey's text and ask them who that person is, where he is from, what his favourite sport is. Hand out the worksheet. Give Ss some time to look at the text. Play the track 5.4 in unit 5. Check the answers in pairs. Check with WC. To clarify the meaning write the sentences below on the WB CCQs I like sports a lot. Is it negative or positive?- Positive Do I use a happy smiley for coffee? – Yes I don't like tennis. Is it positive or negative? - Negative. Which smiley can I use ? – Sad (Negative) smiley Do I like football? Is it positive? - no Is it negative? - no What do you see at the beginning of the sentence? - DO Can I answer this sentence? - yes What is this?- Question Which smiley can I use? - Question smiley They practice the question 'Do you like ... ?' and positive and negative answers by asking to a person in the class to practice the form.
Write tennis and football on the WB. Tell them to listen to the track 5.5 Unit 5. (for correct pronunciaton, rising and falling intonation and for paying attention to the short answers) Do you like football? Yes, I do. Do you like tennis? No, I don't. Write the following words on the WB. dogs, cats, dancing, cooking, pop music, classical music Change their seats. Ss will ask a question to each other in chain. They will use short answers for answers.
Ss will draw the picture of a thing that they like or don't like and the rest of the class will make sentences using the related drawing.
Ss will play charades. There will be two groups. One person from each group comes and tries to explain 'I like ..... or I don't like ......' sentences with gestures without speaking. Ss will use 'Do you like ....' question form to guess the answer. Be careful about instructions. They musT be clear and understandable.