Teaching Practice-4
A1 - Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To present and practise Simple Present with Time expressions and Adverbs of Frequency about daily routines and everyday life
Subsidiary Aims
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To assess the students' knowledge of vocabulary about time expressions To make students talk by completing a sentence stem true for them and asking their partners.
Procedure (40-45 minutes)
- Give each ss a clipped piece of paper on which there is a question beginning with "Do you...................? e.g. Do you get up at 7 o'clock? / Do you wake up early? Do you go to bed late? / Do you have dinner? -SS will mingle asking their question and take brief notes such as name / Yes-no - Get SS to report back the answers using he/she wakes up.... as FB - Correct SS ( or elicit ) if they forget to use 3rd person "s"
- Do an example with on / in / at / before / after on WB - Hand out the HO1 -Get SS to match the time expressions with them. - Monitor and check answers
- Write randomly often, usually, never, always, sometimes on WB - Draw a percentage timeline on WB -Elicit SS by miming which one is most frequent ( always) and which one is least frequent ( never ) -Make sure to convey the meaning of these words -Model some sentences using the adverbs ( combining with time expressions) - Elicit sentences from ss - Highlight to SS where the adverb goes in the sentence - Elicit some sentences from the SS using prompts to check ss fully understand - Elicit sentences
- Hand out the HO2 covering jumbled sentences e.g. a shower / have / I / never / in the morning - Make sure SS to see the example sentence on HO -Monitor and help if needed - Pair-check if possible
- Give each SS a sentence stem e.g. I always___________________ I ________________________ in the morning - Make ss complete the sentence true for them -In pairs, they say their sentences and share their answers e.g. S1: I always eat breakfast. How about you? S2: I never eat breakfast. / I usually work on Saundays.