The Journey
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Students will have had practice in a narrative process writing about a journey I made with an aeroplane
Subsidiary Aims
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Students will have had practice in free speaking in groups about a journey I made with an aeroplane
Procedure (45 minutes)
I will put students into pairs. I will make some gestures to describe a journey I made. I will pause after each stage for students to orally reproduce the story sentence by sentence. My gestures will be: 1. Taking a visa 2. I was late so I could not eat. 3. I went to the airport to take an aeroplane 4. I slept in the aeroplane 5. I did not get food because I was asleep. 6. I had stomach ache and started crying 7. They came to give me food.
I will ask students to write the story I mimed Instructions: Write the story with your partner.
I will ask students to exchange the stories they have written with a different pair. Students will read each others work and make corrections.
I will give students new sheets to re-write their stories again by including the corrections they got from their friends.
I will ask students to identify two places in the story where they can insert 'unfortunately' and 'surprisingly'.
I will ask students to once again exchange and read each others work and make any corrections they find.
I will make students to compare their first, second and third stories. I will go through and give the last feedback if there is the need to do so.