Lois Maddox - Headway
Beginners level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and specific information listening and reading practice using a text about Lois's day
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide the use of some adverbs of frequency in present simple and using the negative form of present
Procedure (33-45 minutes)
- T shows two pictures: one for Elliot and one for Lois to review the previous lesson. - T asks "Who's he/she?" - "What's his/her name?" - "Are they friends or brothers?" - T elicit the answer from the WC.
- T shows four different pictures of Lois's day - T asks Ss to Pw for two minutes to guess what words or verbs we can say about Lois's day ICQs: - Will you read or listen or write? No, think and guess - How much time? Two minutes - FB for Wc and T writes their FB on the WB(optional)
- T asks Ss to listen once about Lois to choose the best title for the listening task - T writes the three titles on the WB: 1. Lois's day. 2. Lois's friends. 3. Lois's family. - ICQs: - Who will you listen about? or Will you lesson about Elliot? No Lois - How many times will you listen? once - How many titles will you choose? one - T allows them to PW to check answers - FB for the WC
- T asks Ss to read and complete the text with the verbs for three minutes -activity 4- - ICQs: - Will you listen or read? read - How much time? 3 minutes - How many verbs do you have? 13 - Where are they? in the box - T asks Ss to PW to check answers - FB on the WB( students can write on the WB / T plays the recording to check their answers) - T asks Ss to read the activity 3 page 45 - Are these sentences about Lois or Elliot? write He or She in two minutes ICQs: - What will you write? He for Elliot and She for Lois - How much time? 2 minutes - FB in PW -T checks the answers on the WB - T asks Ss to listen and complete the phone conversation between Lois and Elliot. ICQs: - How many persons will talk? two - Who are they? Elliot and Lois - Will you listen and repeat? no listen and write - FB in PW the T plays the recording to check their answer
- T writes a sentence on the WB : She ......... gets up late. - T asks "What can we put here?" to elicit from the text the answer. CCQs: - Is the sentence in the present or the past? - How many times does she get up late? Always - everyday - all times. - Does she get up late today? yes, she gets up late everyday. - Does she get up now? No - Will she get up late tomorrow? yes, maybe - T draws a line on the WB to show how many times she does an action and elicit ( never-sometimes-usually) - T writes the form on the WB ( Subj. + always + Verb .....) - T asks Ss to write two sentences from the text contains always/never/usually for two minutes ICQs: How many sentences will you write? two - Will you look at the board to find the sentences?/ Where are the sentences? no at the text - How much time? two minutes - T allows Ss to check answer in PW - FB to Wc on the board by circling the sentences
- T writes a group of words on the WB to arrange the words to form a meaningful sentence (always-she-dinner-cooks) - T asks Ss " How can we form a sentence?" to elicit from the Ss and writes the answer on the board - T splits the class into three groups of 3 Ss and named the groups(morning-afternoon-evening) and writes the names on the WB - T asks Ss to form five sentences using a group of words written on posters, each group will stick the poster of the words on the WB to form a sentence in 2 minutes. - ICQs:- What's the name of your group? - How many sentences will you stick on the board? 5 - Will you write words on the board? No, stick - Why? to form a sentence - T checks the answers and praises the winner group
- T writes on the WB: Lois lives in a flat. ICQs: - Is this sentence positive or negative? positive - Is it the present or the past? yes, in the present - Can we change it into negative? yes, how? - Is it true? No, she does not live in a flat. She lives in a small house. - T asks Ss to correct the sentences about Lois and Elliot in activity 5 in 4 minutes. ICQs: - Will you listen? No, write - What will you write? - one negative sentence and one positive sentence to correct the sentences. - How much time? 4 minutes - FB in PW then T allows Ss to write the correct sentences on the WB