Nursing Homes
B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a debate and coversation in the context of nursing homes
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist and scan reading practice using a text about different opinions in the context of nursing homes
Procedure (28-51 minutes)
-Project a short video of about three minutes -Try to elicit the topic from the students -Write the topic on the W/B -Give students two questions to discuss in groups
- Project a picture and ask students a question "what makes her sad?" -Students discuss in groups -Give students handouts including short texts that are related to the picture -Students read individually and quickly -Students compare their guesses to what the story is about in groups
- Give students a paper that has different opinions that are related to the short text -Elicit from students which opinions are with or against the suggestion in the text - Write the useful expressions to show agreement/ disagreement on the W/B by eliciting them form students -Students discuss in groups whether they agree/ disagree with those opinions - Students will make two circles and practice the second conditional while speaking
- Have students line up -Get one line to agree with the idea of sending old people to nursing homes and the other line to disagree - Get them to switch roles and speak
- Write down the mistakes students make on a paper while monitoring -Write the sentences on the W/B -Ask students to figure out the mistakes -Elicit the mistakes and give FB
- Put students in groups of four - Give students four pictures, one for each with a paper that has four statements -Each student describe the pic for each other and try to match -Give students FB