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tp 7 speking
pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, I will be working to develop students capacities in speaking. I will use compliments and praise as a medium for them to practice this skill.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To provide fluency in students speaking skills within the context of complimenting.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Make students comfortable complimenting and being complimented.
  • Recognize and use alternative lexis for words like 'great/good' and 'like/love'.
  • Work on when to emphasize when complimenting.

Procedure

Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Start with a video clip https://youtu.be/l8EeNP4WXwA beginning. minute 5:00-5:30, 6:20, 11:18 Answer, what's the best compliment you've ever received. I'll start, and then everyone can share. If there is more than 4 or 5 people, we can split into breakout rooms.

Content preparation (5-6 minutes) • Allowing learners to acclimate to certain situations where people use compliments.

In groups, you will invent compliments that go with these 3 situations. 3 EXAMPLES (show slideshow) Museum Friend goes shopping In nature EXAMPLE: I adore Chicarito. He is a fantastic football player. breakout for 2 minutes My examples. If I am in a museum, I would say. " I really love that painting. It is full of color." If my friend goes shopping, I might say, "That a great jacket. Where did you buy it?" I'm in nature, I might say "It's so gorgeous. I could stay here all day." OCFB to gather responses from class. Use whiteboard

Language preparation (5-7 minutes) • Students will learn two different forms to compliment and complete a task to integrate lexis into converstaion.

Ask Student A: tell me a compliment for Mario/ Stella/Jihad/ or other. Ok. What is something that you can add to that statement? Is that a question or a descriptive statement? Other CCQ, I will add either a question or a descriptive statement depending on the previous response. This is called a FOLLOW UP QUESTION/ FOLLOW UP DETAIL Compliment + follow up question. I really like your clothes. Where did you get them? Compliment + follow up detail I really like your clothes? The colors are rad! Introduce worksheet and have students work in pairs. OCFB and talk about... Pronunciation: Where does the emphases go on (above) these phrases? Put emphasis and raise voice on superlatives. The 2nd part can be in various places. Explain. Ex. really, where, rad. Is colour correct spelling? yes, outside of the US. Ask Student A: tell me a compliment for Mario/ Stella/Jihad/ or other. Ok. What is something that you can add to that statement? Now add a follow up question... Now add a follow up detail... Now you're ready.

Speaking Task (18-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice speaking in a natural way and include target language.

"You will work in groups of two (3)." Look at this picture... Use the target language and your own imagination to compliment this picture. Please use more than just two sentences each. OCFB and give feedback about students. Did they put emphasis? Did they try other words besides 'great' or 'like'? DEC Use another picture. Use the target language and your own imagination to compliment this picture. Please use more than just two sentences each. OCFB and give feedback about students. Did they improve upon last time? DEC Now, you are each a character here (different pictures of famous people). I would like you to take turns complimenting each other. OCFB and give feedback about students. Did they improve upon last time? DEC Finally, please just compliment your partner. OCFB and give feedback about students. Did they improve upon last time? DEC

Feedback on content/language (5-6 minutes) • To provide postive feedback about what students did well. To give suggestions on how to make improvements or variations. To relate

Finish DEC if there is any left over or review some errors that you found common throughout. Write on whiteboard some sentences that I heard wrong and go through meaning, form, or pronunciation. Is this important in learning English? Discuss. This is important in being a human. And knowing how to give a good compliment is always a good thing.

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