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Irregular plurals
A1 level

Description

In this lesson the students will learn irregular plurals through guided discovery

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide clarification, review and practice of irregular plurals in the context of special occasion

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about life with quadruplets in the context of special occasion

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

T displays the image "smile baby" T: TELL ME WHO IS IT? WHAT DOES SHE DO? IS SHE UGLY? IS SHE ANGRY WHAT IS SHE WEARING?

Pre-Reading/Listening (10-12 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

T teaches the vocabulary through guided discovery SAME: YOU ALL LIVE IN ISTANBUL. YOU ARE FROM THE ........ CITY TWIN: TWO BABIES ARE SAME, THEY LOOK SAME, THEY HAVE THE SAME MOTHER AND THEIR DATES OF BIRTH ARE SAME. WHAT DO YOU SAY? TRIPLET: WHAT ABOUT THREE BABIES? QUADRUPLET: WHAT ABOUT 4 BABIES? DIAPER: BABY CAN'T GO TO TOILET. WE WRAP SOMETHING ON ITS BOTTOM. IT IS? EXHAUSTED: TEACHER MIMES WAKE UP: TEACHER MIMES GET UP: TEACHER MIMES T drills the pronunciation

While-Reading/Listening #1 (10-12 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

T: LOOK AT THE PAGE 38, PART 2 READ THE QUESTIONS AT THE BOTTOM FIRST READ THE TEXT AND ASWER THE QUESTIONS DO IT ALONE ICQ: WHAT DO YOU DO? T: CHECK WITH YOUR PARTNER T reveals the key

While-Reading/Listening #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

T asks the students: T: DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A CHILD? DO YOU WANT ONE OR MORE? A CHILD, IS IT SINGULAR OR PLURAL?(SINGULAR) WHAT IS THE PLURAL?(CHILDREN) T writes on the "Irregular Plural" T writes underneath "Singular, Plural" T writes: child-children, man-men, woman-women, tooth-teeth, mouce-mice, foot-feet, goose-geese, ox-oxen(male caw), sheep-sheep, fish-fish, deer-deer T: THERE ARE SOME WORDS, THEY ARE ALWAYS PLURAL T writes on the board "Use always plural" T: WHAT DO I WEAR?(GLASSES) T writes "glasses, jeans(t points), trousers(t points), pyjamas(what do you wear before you go to bed), shorts, scissors(t gestures) T DRILLS THE PRONUNCIATION

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

T shows the handout " Write the plurals". T: LOOK AT THE WORDS IN THE BRACKETS WRITE THE PLURAL IN THE GAPS DO IT ALONE ICQ: WHAT DO YOU DO? T: CHECK WITH YOUR PARTNER T REVEALS THE KEY

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