Productive Skills - Speaking about Dreams
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation and inventive dialogue in the context of dreams using past continuous and past simple with prepositions
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide clarification and practice in the context of seeing and interpreting dreams
Procedure (41-51 minutes)
- T stands in front of the classroom. - T greets Sts. - T shows a series of slides to Sts using projector. - T asks Sts. "What do you think about these pictures?" - I1: "Discuss in pairs for 2 mins." - ICQ1: "Are you discussing quickly or slowly?" - T asks Sts. "What did you discuss in pairs?" - T spends a few minutes getting WCFB
- T leads into model task - T chests HO#1 - T says "Here you have statements." - I1: "Choose the correct word and fill in the blanks." - I2: "You will have 5 minutes." - I3: "Check with a partner when you finish." - ICQ1: "What are you doing?" - ICQ2: "How much time will you have?" - When Sts complete the task lead into FB - T says "Lets go over the answers." - T gets Sts. to read some of their answers and spot errors - Error correct mispronunciation, and drill - USE WB ONLY if Sts have an issue with stress/intonation
- T chests HO#2 - T says "Take a look at the words." - I1: "Read all of them." - I2: "You have 2 minutes." - ICQ1: "Are we taking 5 minutes to read?" - Sts finish reading. - T asks WC "Does everyone understand all of the words?" - Sts asks "What does this mean?" - T clarifies words Sts don't understand or sure of how to use - T does Drill pronunciation BEFORE WB - T leads into scaffolding activity 1
- T chests HO#3 - I1: "You will work in pairs." - I2: "Student A is a doctor, Student B is a patient." - I3: "Read the instructions." - I4: "You will create your own questions and answers." - I5: "You will have 14 minutes." - ICQ1: "Do we all know what we're doing?" - ICQ2: "Are doing this quickly?" - T will monitor and take notes. - If some Sts finish their roles they will switch roles. -T leads into the second activity (free practice) - I1: "There is two signs in the class." - I2: "One group will be Doctors and the other are Patients" - I3: "Doctors will discuss about their patients." - I4: "Patients will talk and share their dreams." - I5: "Do not use your notes." - I6: "If it is too hard, you can use your notes." - I7: "You will have 6 minutes." - ICQ1: "What are we doing?" - ICQ2: "How much time do you have?" - T will monitor and take notes. - T will not interrupt fluency unless to hot error correct.
- T instructs class to comment on the activities - T asks if Sts had any trouble with certain phrases - T refers to notes to see which areas Sts had a problem with - T gets feedback from Sts and error corrects