The truth about air travel
Upper-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide review and practice of the narrative tenses in the context of air travel and airplanes
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide pronunciation practice focusing on past participles and sentences stress patterns in exercises related to the same context , air travel .
Procedure (32-45 minutes)
- Greet Ss - Relate the topic to the previous lesson - Show the Ss the title of the article and ask them about the main subject of this article - Take some answers from Ss - Don't share the right answer with them in this stage
- Give the Ss /HO1/ which has the story and let them read the text quickly to answer ex.a - Ask Ss : Are we reading slowly or quickly ? quickly Are we choosing the correct answer here ? no Are we checking the meaning of new words ? no - Listen to some answers from Ss to and see which one is closest to the right answer - Share the right answer with Ss
- Ask Ss to read the text again but now do ex.b - Let Ss check their answers in pairs - Give them an answer key and let them check their answers again
- Give Ss a worksheet /HO2/ to let them work out the meaning and form of narrative tenses in pairs/groups - Let them check their answers in groups - Answer the questions together with giving feedback - Do ex.c together to see if they get it clearly and to practice pronunciation
- Let Ss do ex.a P.136 /HO3/ - Ss check their answers in pairs/groups - Give Ss the answer key to check /HO4/
- Let the Ss do ex.e page:26 in pairs/groups - Monitor and take some notes - Give W/C feedback about the answers
- Tell Ss to do ex.a+b page : 27 /HO5/ - Before they start , elicit the vowel sounds from them and do one answer together - Let them check their answers in pairs - Play the audio to let them check - Drill the words together and get them to repeat after you - Tell the Ss that they will listen to an audio track about stress patterns and tell them to pay attention to stressed and unstressed words - Get some Ss to read the sentences to practice .