Ali Mohseni
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide product writing practice of an essay in the context of honesty
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a debate in the context of honesty.
Procedure (45-55 minutes)
-The teacher writes this question on the board:"Why is it difficult for some students to write an essay and what should they do in the first stage?" -students discuss among themselves and come up with three different ideas and suggestions. -There is a whole class feedback.
-Students read the essay and do the exercise which is explaining the term 'white lie' in their own words. -There is a whole class feedback. -To do the next exercise,the students should correct five verbs to complete some common expressions. -The students check their answers by finding them in the essay in1.
-In this stage,he teacher makes sure the students know the subject of each paragraph and the words the writer used to explain ideas. -The teacher asks groups to read six brainstorm ideas in the next part and find them in each paragraph. -In the next stage,students should switch their partners and explain their answers to the new partner. -There is a whole class feedback. -The teacher teach the way of planning paragraphs and asks students to divide the ideas in 3 into four paragraphs,following the same pattern as in the model.
-He teacher asks the students to write a four paragraph essay to answer to the essay question in1.(about 'white lie') -Students should write their essay with using their ideas and paragraph plan from 3 and 4,and using useful phrases from 5 and 6. -The teacher monitors closely and makes sure the students are on the right track and are following the instructions.
-The teacher asks students to exchange their essays and find some grammatical and typographical mistakes and each one write two of them on the board. -The teacher asks students to correct each other and say the correct form of the sentences. -Teacher write the correct answers on board and explain for students why the previous form was wrong.