Family Weekend
Beginners level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist reading practice using a text about family weekend in the context of three different countries
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification of some of the activities people may practice during their weekend
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
The teacher asks the students what day today is and tomorrow to elicit that tomorrow is the weekend. The teacher tells the student I visit my parents at the weekend. Where do you go? The teacher tries to elicit some weekend activity
Teacher will divide the students into pair. Each pair get a group of pictures and words. 3 minutes time is set for the student to match and say" Weekend" if they finish. Ss try to match the words with their pictures as a game to get them engaged. As the students are busy matching, the teacher monitors. Feedback on board.
Teacher hands out the reading passage.Teacher gives the students 5 minutes to read. There are three paragraphs. In groups of three, students will read only one paragraph. Then they decide which country it describe where people spend their weekend. Teacher do Feedback
Teacher tells Ss to read again the text. This time the Ss read the paragraphs in order to complete the following exercise. The teacher set 10 minutes. In their groups, Ss check their answers. Then they go and check other groups. On Whiteboard the teacher write the number of expression and student write the answers.
Teacher gives students a handout to complete some sentences about their weekend Teacher monitor and see if there are any mistakes. Do delayed error correction