Speaking - Giving Opinions
Upper-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To introduce and provide practice of speaking for fluency in the context of giving opinions.
Subsidiary Aims
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To allow students fluency speaking practice by discussing about a topic at least twice.
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To give students discussion language they can use for giving opinions.
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
T shows SS an image on Jamboard about people talking and ask SS if they enjoy talking about an interesting or controversial topic. 2 minutes. 1) Do you enjoy discussing a topic for long time? 2) What is you most like when you give an opinion? T asks SS work in pairs to give their opinion about the topic: "Men and women can never really be equal". SS discuss in breakout rooms during 3 minutes. T conducts OCFB.
T asks students read sixteen sentences showed on Jamboard and elicit them to answer if they have ever used them. T provides SS a worksheet on Google Docs and asks them work in pairs. T provides SS intructions, SS read and match the sentences with the correct meaning (Ex. 4A Upper Intermediate Students' Book, page 47). 4 minutes. T conducts OCFB. Meaning task -T provides SS a table to come up with the meaning of the sentences related to give opinion seen in the previous task. T elicits SS answer CCQs for understanding meaning purposes. 4 minutes. Pronunciation task - T elicits students drill chorally four sentences for giving opinions. 3 minutes. T conducts OCFB.
Task 1) - T provides SS the topic "The greatest invention of the 20th century" for speaking practice by using the discussional language for giving opinions. T supports the activity by providing first SS an example about a short conversation showed on Jamboard so that SS can continue or start a discussion. In pairs, SS discuss the topic in breakout rooms for 6 minutes. T monitors SS. T conducts OCFB. Task 2) - T gives SS three topics to practice the language to give opinions. In pairs, SS work in breakout rooms, choose a topic and practice speaking for fluency by using functional language in the context of giving opinions. 6 minutes. T monitors SS. SS do the same exercise with different partner. 6 minutes. T monitors SS. T conducts OCFB.
T conducts learners feedback in the use of the target language based on monitoring of the speaking tasks 1) and 2).