mary tp5 vocabulary
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson the learners should be able to understand and use past time expressions in the context of technology
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of about past time experiences
Procedure (39-45 minutes)
-Show the students some pictures of mobile phones, digital camera and computers -Do you remember your first phone -let the students talk about it for a minute -Ask them some questions about the pictures - Could you send an email, play video game or download music -what the difference between phones during that time and now? Technology
-Now show them a picture of Sang-mi from South Korea -Tell students that they are going to listen Sang-mi talk about Technology, listen and fnd out if she is good with new technology or not. - Play the audio -is she good with new technology?No -What does she talk about? (her first mobile phone, first text message, first computer, first CD, first music online, first digital camera) - Give the students a set of questions to answer -play the audio again - Students write the answers, If needed replay the audio - Now let the student peercheck -Go through the questions with them
-Now the students have the target language from the text -To encourage guided discovery ,before clarification and asking questions first give the students a minute to talk about the sentences with time expressions "What do they mean?" "Are there any diffferences?" -Now go over the examples one by one 1.Check the meaning Ask questions about meaning CCQs use timelines for concept checking and presentation 2. check form What comes after and before these past time expressions 3. Check pronounciation Where do we stress how many sylables do we have Mark the stress on the WB Drill individually then Chorally first the word as an individual item then in a sentence. - after you have clarified M/F/P ask one or two questions to do some checking
- Put 3 collumns on the WB, last, In and Ago -Tell the students to place card on the columns into the form it takes - Place the first card as an example to model instructions -Let the students place the cards they check in with their partners before they place -Teacher will monitor during the activity - Go through the word they only have a problem with
- Tell the students to think about the first time they had a mobile phone use a digital camera Buy a CD Send an email Buy music online - tell the student to ask each otherabout these things for example ,when did you first had........ -Monitor and take notes for error correction
-project topics on the WB -For example, tell each other when you first did the things Do you still ude the same technology now Are you good with the new technology -Move the students to change partners as much as possible -ask the students some of the things they learnt about their partners