Reading
Intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to use quantifiers in the context of important things in life.
Subsidiary Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will be better able to speak using quantifiers in the context of the environment.
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
- Show ss my picture riding a camel in Gizza pyramids plateau. - Ask them (Have you ever had any such experience in your life?) - Get them to discuss their experiences in pairs. - Ask three students (what did you learn about ....)
- Get Ss to listen to an audio to fill the gaps with 'quantifiers' which is the target language. - Make sure that they filled all the gaps. - Whole class feedback (Answer key).
- Get Ss to extract the countable and uncountable nouns from the sentences of the exercise. - Clarify in the board countable and uncountable nouns' quantifiers. - Practice MFP, with drilling the tricky ones, like 'a lot of', 'plenty of'.
- Give Ss the second handout. - Give them instructions to fill in the gaps with the best quantifiers for each sentence. - Ss will work in pairs. - pair check. - Whole class feedback (Answer key)
- Get Ss to write 5 sentences about their hometown using the quantifiers they have just learned. - Support them with some ideas 'scaffolding'. - Get them to stand up and speak in pairs (would you tell me about your home town?) - Monitor Ss while speaking and encourage them to use the target language.