text-based presentation for grammar "used to"
intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice to the rule of "used to" in the context of childhood memories.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide listening for gist and details in the context of old school days
Procedure (44-28 minutes)
-Teacher greets Ss and asks how they are doing. -Teacher shows Ss some pictures that are related to childhood games and asks them if they remember them or not. -Teacher asks Ss about what other memories do they remember from their childhood.
* listening for gist: -Teacher tells Ss they are going to listen to a song and play the song on speakers. -Teacher then asks Ss to tell him/her the main idea of the song or what it talks about. *listening for details: -Teacher gives Ss a "fill in the gaps activity" of the song lyrics to fill with the right verb from the table. -Teacher monitors. -Teacher asks Ss to check their answers in pairs. -Teacher then plays the song to make Ss check their answers. -Teacher gives the feedback.
-Teacher makes Ss into two groups of three. -Teacher gives Ss a question about how the writer of the song feels about his schoolyard days and what lines show that he was happy/sad to discuss it together. -Teacher monitors Ss. -Teacher elicit the marker sentence from the students' answer and writes it on the board. (we used to cry a lot)
-Teacher writes another sentence in the past simple on the board ( I cried that day ). -Teacher points to each sentence on the board and asks the following questions: is it the present or past? did it happen once or many times? did it stop or still happening in the present? - If Ss don't answer, teacher will use cards and ask Ss to choose the right answers for the previous CCQs. -Teacher elicits the use of "used to" by asking Ss "when do we use "used to"? -If Ss don't answer, Teacher uses cards to make Ss choose the right answer and stick it on the board.
-Teacher wipes the second sentence ( I cried that day). -Teacher tries to elicit the structure of the rule of "use to" from Ss (uses cards to choose the right answer if they face any difficulty). -Teacher sticks cards on the board to form the following structure. {subject + used to + base verb +.........}.
-Teacher sets the task for Ss before giving them the hand out for the task. -Teacher monitors Ss. -Teacher asks Ss to check their answers in pairs. -Teacher answer the questions with Ss.
-Teacher plays a video of people using "used to" in real life to clarify the natural pronunciation of the rule. -Teacher asks Ss if those people pronounced "used to" as two sounds or as one "usedto". -Teacher drills the following sentence with Ss ( I used to have a car ).
-Teacher makes Ss into 2 groups in 3. -Teacher gives each group 5 questions about childhood and asks them to discuss them to get to know each other well. -Teacher monitors Ss. -Teacher asks each S about what she/he got to know about the childhood of their partners. -Teacher gives Ss a chance to ask him/her about his/her childhood.
answer any questions about the rule and to correct Ss mistakes.