New lesson plan: Family’s Tradition

Abdulrahman Sayed

Family’s Tradition - B1 level

Family’s Tradition
B1 level

Description

The students practice speaking skill in a context of a tradition of their family.

Materials

board, pictures and handouts

board, pictures and handouts

Main Aims

To provide accuracy and fluency speaking practice in the context of family’s traditions

Subsidiary Aims

To provide review and practice of family lexis in the context of family’s traditions

Procedure (43-61 minutes)

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

The teacher shows the students a video of a family gathering in a picnic. Then, he divides them into 4 groups to discuss these questions: 1- Who are these people in the video? 2- What are they doing? - They have 2 minutes to end their discussion. Each students has 30 seconds. Their presenter has 1 minutes to present his / her group output.

Useful Language (6-8 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

The teacher plays the video again to make the students figure out the the relationships between the persons in the video. - The students discuss in pairs. They have 3 minutes to finish this activity. Each pair’s presenter presents the answers and the reason of them in 3 minutes. ICQs: 1- Do you have 5 minutes to finish this activity? 2- Are you going to speak in group or in pairs? 3- How many minutes the presenter have? - The teacher clarifies some vocabulary about family members, according to how far the students remember them.

Brain Storming (6-8 minutes) • To help the students get more ideas about family traditions.

- The students discuss in 4 groups about a tradition of their family. They are going to answer this question: When do your gather and where? - They have 4 minutes to end this activity. The presenter have 2 minutes to present his groups answers ( ideas). ICQs: - Are you going to speak about your dreams or your favorite subject? - Are you going to speak in group or in pairs? - How much each presenter has? - The teacher write their ideas on the board.

Productive Task (20-30 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Each student discusses with his pair a tradition of his family. Each one should make sure that his pair spoke about these questions: •What’s the tradition? • How often does it happen? • When/Where does it happen? • Which family members are involved? • How did the tradition start? • Do you like the tradition? • Do you think the tradition will carry on in the future? - Each students has 8 minutes to speak, and he will present his/ her pair family’s tradition in 4 minutes. ICQs: - Are you going to present the main points in your or your pair answers? - Are you going to speak about a tradition of your family? - Are you going to speak in group or in pairs?

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

-The teacher write on the board the common mistakes he found in the students’ conversations. - He asks the students to correct these mistakes for themselves. - The teacher highlight the corrections.