Friendship.
Intermediate. level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of publishing lexis in the context of "different friends"
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a topic of "Friendship".
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To provide gist and specific information reading practice using a text about Friendship.
Procedure (20-31 minutes)
It will be like a small discussion between the students and the teacher about friendship.I will ask the students how long they'v known their oldest friends,and asking if anyone had a close friend at school that they no longer see.I will ask them also why some friendships last your whole life, while other die.
I will ask them to read the text a bout Tina and Will ,and how their relationship as friends changed when they were students and after graduation.Then they discuss the three questions together.
I will ask them to work as a small group to elicit the meaning of some expressions about friendship. clicked straightaway. Hit it off. Had a lot in common. Fell out. Went our sperate ways. Drifted a part. Had our ups and downs. I know she'll always be there for me.
I will ask them to work in pairs to order the summary of Tina and Will 's friendship without looking back to the text. Then check their answers from the text.
I will ask them to work in pairs to talk a bout their old friends in primary,secondary ,and university ,and compare with each other.
From monitoring I will notice the strengths and weaknesses and correct it on the board and praising the good use of TL