Keeping in touch
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and detailed reading practice using a text about ways of communication in the context of keeping in touch
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of keeping in touch
Procedure (52-60 minutes)
*Greet the students and ask them how was their week. *Show the students the three pictures of Christopher Columbus' ship, President Lincoln, and Neil Armstrong on a PowerPoint slide. *Ask the students 'What do you think are these pictures?' and elicit some answers from them. *Give the students handouts that contains the three pictures and the information below them. *Ask the students to read the information and answer two questions about these events: 'When did these events happen?' and 'How long did it take for people to receive the news?' *Demonstrate the first one with the students. *Teacher monitors and gives help if needed. *Ask students to check their answers in pairs. *Give the students feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Show the students PowerPoint slides with pictures to teach vocabulary that might be new or confusing for the students. *Drill the new vocabulary. *Give the students another activity that contains the difficult words in the text. *Teacher sticks 6 cards that contains sentences of 6 words in bold on the wall. *Give the students the definitions of the 6 words in bold and ask them to stick the definition with the right card after reading the sentences on the card. *Demonstrate the first one with them. *Ask the students to work together. *Give the students feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Give the students a handout that contains the ordering activity in which the students have to order the ways of communication from the oldest to the newest. *Demonstrate the first one with them. *Teacher monitors and gives help if needed. *Ask the students to check their answers in pairs. *Give the students a handout that contains the text. *Ask the students to read the text really quickly to know the correct order. *Ask ICQs:Are you going to read the text quickly? (yes) Are you going to read the whole text word by word? (no) *Give them feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Give the students a handout that contains the question and give them time to read it first. *Tell them that we're going to read the text again to answer these questions. *Ask ICQ: Are you going to read word by word or quickly? (word by word). *The students start to read and answer the questions. *Teacher monitors and gives help if needed. *Ask students to check their answers in pairs. *Give them feedback by demonstrating with them. *Give the students a handout that contains the pronoun referents. *Ask the students to read the sentences and to determine the reference of the pronoun from the original text. *Demonstrate the first one with them. *the students start to read again and determine the pronoun referents from the text. *Teacher monitors and gives help if needed. *Ask the students to check their answers in pairs. *Give feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Give the students a handout that contains several questions. *Ask students to discuss in pairs/small groups the following questions: -Which information in the text did you find most surprising? -Do you think people send too many e-mails /text messages? -Do you ever receive annoying e-mails /phone calls? -What do you think the future's new ways of communication is going to be about? -Do you want to go back to the past and use the old ways of communication?and why? If yes which way of communication would you like to use? -Do you want to go back to the past and use some of the newest ways of communication? -Do you like the new ways of communication?and why? -Teacher monitors and gives help if needed. -Discuss in a plenary discussion with the students the same questions. -Give feedback by correcting their mistakes.