Showing interest
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of language used for showing interest in the context of real life
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of real life
Procedure (54-67 minutes)
*Greet the students and ask the students how was their week. *Turn off the lights and show the students a PowerPoint slides that contain several questions. *Ask the students: -Have you ever met someone famous? -What happened? -Who would you like to meet? and why? -Why do you like him/her? *Elicit some answers from them.
*Tell the students that we are going to listen to an audio about someone called Kristin. She is a singer in a group called 'Stream Patrol' and she is telling her friend Tom about an experience she had when she played in a concert in Germany. *Tell the students ''I want you to listen carefully and put these events in order''. *Ask ICQs: -Are you going to write something? (yes,numbers) -Where? ( in the box) and you have number 1 answered. *Give the students 1 minute to read the sentences. *Tell the students to listen and number. *If the students need to listen again, play the recording one more time. *Ask the students to check their answers in pairs. *Give the students feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Chest the handout that contains the tapescript and tell them ''this is the script.This is what they said in the audio.We have here T for Tom and K for Kirstin. I want you to read it and underline the phrases Tom showed interest. *Give the students the tapescript. *Ask ICQs: -Are you going to underline the phrases Tom says or Kirstin? (Tom) -Are you going to underline all Tom's phrases or the ones that show interest? (the ones that show interest) *Demonstrate the first one with the students. *Give the students time to underline the phrases that show interest. *Ask the students to check their answers in pairs. *Give the students feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Use a PowerPoint slide that contains several situations. *Ask students to come up with a suitable response to each situation. *Elicit the TL from the students. *Then Elicit the meaning of every phrase. *Drill the phrases with rising intonation for the students first then let them repeat in groups and individually. *Ask the students ''What other phrases can we use to show interest?'' *Show the students a slide that summarizes the four ways to show interest.
*Give the students a handout that contains several sentences to complete. *Demonstrate the first one with the students. *Teacher monitors. *Ask the students to check their answers in pairs. *Give the students feedback by demonstrating with them. *Give the students another handout from the workbook about the short questions to show interest. *Demonstrate the first one with the students. *Teacher monitors. *Ask them to check their answers in pairs. *Give the students feedback by demonstrating with them.
*Ask the students to read the conversation between Tom and Kirstin with intonation. *Divide the students into student A and student B. *Ask student A to read Tom and student B to read Kirstin. *When they finish, ask them to exchange their part of the conversation. *Give the students feedback by correcting their mistakes if any and praise the good uses of language.
*Ask the students to think of a time when they got lost or something strange happened to them. *Ask student A to tell student B his/her story. *Ask student B to show interest by using some of the phrases from the tapescript. *When they finish, ask them to swap their roles. *Teacher monitors and provide help if needed. *Give feedback by correcting their mistakes if any.