TP-3
Intermediate-B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To give students practice reading, in particular skim reading for gist, scanning for specific information and deducting meaning through the context about 'Dream Homes'
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a discussion in the context of Dream Homes.(advantages and disadvantages of where they live and disadvantages to living in Paradise Ridge)
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
-Play back-to-the-board-game to elicit Dream Homes. -Show students pictures of different kinds of house and ask any of them would be their dream homes and why why not. -Get a few general ideas - Tell students to quickly read through the sentences in Speaking excercise 1 and ask if there are any words they don't know. -Check and deal with unknown vocabulary by involving other students explain the words wherever possible. - Give students exercise 1 to discuss in pairs then take some general feedback - Ask students to think of advantages and disadvantages of where they live. -Put students in pairs to compare their ideas after they do it alone. -Take some general feed back -Ask students if they would like to live anywhere else and why -Get a few ideas - -
-Elicit the following words - scenery, region, cabin,(using a picture) community, communal, vacation, resident, vote. - Drill community, communal and scenery
- Tell students that they will read an article from a magazine about a place called Paradise Ridge - Tell them to read quickly and ask what part of the magazine it comes from. - Give students the reading exercise 1 hand out for them to read the choices - Get students to peer check after they choose the best answers. - Take feedback as a whole class - Ask students to focus on the sentences in exercise 2 and ask students if they can remember which of the information is mentioned -Put students in pairs to discuss their sentences -Ask students to read again more slowly to check their answers -Peer-check and take feedback as a whole class.
-Ask students if there would be any disadvantages if there would be any disadvantages to living in Paradise Ridge. - Elicit a couple w/c and put them on the white board - Put students in group of 3 and ask them to think at least 3 different disadvantages - Get students from the groups and to write a disadvantage on the white board by involving other students - Ask students if they all agree or have any other ideas
-Tell students they will listen to some residents talking about Paradise Ridge - Ask students to check if they mention disadvantages or different ones - Ask students to listen and check their predictions. -Peer-check and take general feedback to see if the disadvantages were the same.