Lesson plan TP5 - Vocabulary (Collocations)
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of collocations ( verb + noun - prepositions - noun +noun) in the context of daily life.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of listening for specific information in the context of daily life.
Procedure (36-45 minutes)
- Commenting upon a set of pictures to tell about Mr Bean's yesterday's activities. Look at the pictures. What did Mr Bean do? - Highlighting the used collocations. These words go together. 'They are friends' Can you think of similar ones? - Eliciting more ( Reminding Ss of some of the things they said yesterday)
Activity 1: Mingle Activity: Ss will be split into two groups. In a - competition like activity, they will race to find as many yellow matching cards , as possible , to the green cards . The group with the most cards is the winner. - These are green cards. There are yellow cards at the back of the classroom. You need to match them together in 1 minute. For example, 'become' goes with ' a pilot '. What about 'drink'? ( a cup of tea). So, are you going to stand up? Are you going to write anything? And how much time do you have? GO! - Check your answers (Key Answer) What's the difference between 'ride' and 'drive'? Describe the picture The man's riding a white horse.( Highlighting stress and backchaining ) Is the word 'record' the same in ' play a record ' and break a record'? Look at the picture. What can you say about Ussain Bolt? ( Bolt broke the world record twice- Highlighting stress and backchaining) Role-Play: Use the words to ask a friend a question. For example, 'win a medal ', Yaman did you win a medal last year? Now, it's your turn to ask another S. - Matching activity: You are going to work in pairs to match a word from the left list with one from the right list to fill in the gaps in these sentences, in 2 minutes. For example, I have ..... for breakfast ( orange juice) -Handing out papers ( Txt handout + Gap-filling handout) Are you going to work alone? Are you going to write?/ How much time do you have? Go ! - Check your answers, please? - Collocation Classifications: Look at this table. Where to put handbag? watch TV? Travel to Spain? - Work in your group to pick as many as you can Listening: You are going to listen to 4 people talking about their daily lives. Listen to fill in the gaps. Let's listen to do the first together. -Checking the answers.
- Listen to fill in the gaps. Are you going to work alone? Are you going to write anything? - Answers checking : Check your answers with a friend.
- Let's use the same dialogues to talk about different things. - Demonstrating with the whole class. - Re-demonstrating with a S. - Take 2 minutes to practice with a friend