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A dish for you- writing
Elementary- Level A 2 level

Description

In this lesson, students will learn how to write about their favourite fruit salad. The lesson starts with acting as a lead-in to activate students' knowledge of the lesson. I will discuss the acting with the students.Then, I will review the countable and the uncountable nouns through some activities. After that, will ask students to read a passage and to answer some questions. They will negotiate their answers with members of their groups. Then, students will do two gap-filling activities. Then, students will write a short paragraph about their favourite dish. Finally, students will do a speaking activity about their favourite dish.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • writing about their favourite dish

Subsidiary Aims

  • to speak about their favourite dish

Procedure

lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To activate students' existing knowledge of the topic

I will bring some realia. These are some fruits, a plate and a knife. I will act in order to get them interested in the topic. Also, this helps to initiate using some vocabulary words( fruit) and some functional phrases like'' You need.."'

preparing to write (5-10 minutes) • To pre-teach some grammar needed for accurate writing

I will ask students to look at some pictures and to distinguish countable and uncountable ones. Also, they will be given an activity about this grammar. Furthermore, I will ask students to look at some pictures and to add quantifiers like ( a, an, some, number). They will be given an activity to do about this grammar.

useful language (10-15 minutes) • To provide and clarify language which learners may need to complete the writing task

I will ask students to read a passage and to answer some questions. When they finish, they will check their answers with members of their groups. Then, students will do two gap-filling activities. They will be asked to work in groups. I will show them the correct answers.

writing task (5-12 minutes) • to develop their writing skills

Students will be asked to write about their favourite dishes. They will read each other's paragraphs as soon as they finish in order to correct any mistakes.

speaking task (2-3 minutes) • to develop their speaking skills

students will be asked to get in pairs in order to tell each other about their favourite dishes.

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