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Erdem Sen

Issues when travelling by train - While practising future simple - Pre-Intermediate level

Issues when travelling by train - While practising future simple
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, sts practice using ``will`` to make offers and promise help through guided listening tasks about travelling by train. The lesson starts with a short presentation about what did a couple of days ago, which is I went to Ankara by train. In this presentation, I will elicit some vocabulary also. This followed by a listening exercise about a traveler that is having problems. Then there is an uncontrolled practice through a phone conversation. Finally, we will review what we have done so far and see if we are right.

Materials

Course Book

Course Book

Main Aims

To provide listening practice using a text about having problems and asking for help in the context of travel

Subsidiary Aims

To provide clarification of transportation and trip in the context of traveling by train

Procedure (39-49 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

After asking how they have been, I will tell them what I did a couple of days ago, which is my travel to Ankara by train.

Pre-Listening (3-5 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

I will talk about the problems I had while travelling by train. I will use the words that they may not know such as ``arrange`` and ``hire``. Then I will elicit the meanings if the sts don`t know them. Now they will be ready to listen to the exercise 2.

While Listening #1 (7-8 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information listening tasks

Before listening the exercise, I will give them the instructions like you are going to listen to a conversation about a problem of a traveler is having and how it is fixed. I will ask sts to listen to the telephone call carefully and find out what the problem and the solution are. Then they will discuss about it in PW. I plan to repeat the exercise twice.

Reading/Speaking #2 (14-16 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/speaking tasks

Sts will have already talked about the possible problems of travelling by a train and what the solutions would be for those problems in the first two exercises. Depending on the number of the sts, they will work in pairs or in a group. There is a conversation between Bridget and Ana, but what Bridget says is missing and the sts will try to fill in the blanks. Answers may vary depending on the sts` experiences, assumptions, and imaginations. Then I will ask for two volunteers to read the conversation one of which will be Bridget and the other one will be Ana. I plan to do this twice.

Post-Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

In the last exercise, sts will listen the exercise 3-the whole conversation between Ana and Bridget-. They are going to compare their answers to the ones in the real conversation and they will see if they are right or not. I will repeat the conversation twice for them to understand better.

Lesson Overview and Error Correction (4-5 minutes) • Rectify what sts have learned and practised in the class

I will ask sts to summarize what they have just learned and practiced by asking ``what have you studied so far?``, ``what have you practiced?``, ``what new phrases and words have you learned?``. I believe, sts will make some errors and I will take notes about them and at the end of the class, I will ask them to correct the mistakes.