Tp5 Where were you born?
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide detailed listening practice using a text about Pablo Picasso in the context of Past Tense.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of early life.
Procedure (34-44 minutes)
-Show pictures of Picasso paintings (classical and modernist). -Ask the students what they think of them. -The students discuss in groups.
-Pre-teach "prodigy" and "professor", "drawing" and "pencil". by eliciting, ccq, drilling and writing. -Show the stress.
-Ss read and predict answers for gap filling in part 5. -Ss listen for answers and compare them while teacher is monitoring. -The teacher shows the answers on the smartboard for delayed feedback.
-Prepare cut-ups which have questions and answers on them about Past form of verb to be. -In groups, the students match them. -The students write their own questions and answer them. -As a mingling activity, the students stand up, find someone and ask his/her question, and the other student answer it. -The teacher monitors, takes notes and give delayed to whole class.
-Elicit walk, talk, read, swim, ride a bike, use a computer, speak a foreign language with "TPR". -Use pictures for matching vocabulary activity. -Drill the question "how old were you when you were ...?" -In pairs, the students write questions with "how old ..." ask each other. -The teacher monitors and give feedback.