Holiday
pre - intermediate level
Description
Main Aims
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To provide clarification, review and practice new vocabularies about holiday
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency of speaking through practices
Procedure (27-45 minutes)
- Students are assigned to watch a video to motivate and introduce the target language - ICQ: clear instruction is needed - CCQs: Is it about having fun? (Yes) Do you sometimes have party in such a situation? (Yes) Can you go to these places every month? ( No) How often can you go there? (once in a ......) what do you call this? ho........ what are types of holiday? - Elicit topics from students - let them talk in pairs to entitle the video and TL - Students model and produce the language - Feedback: Ask students to share with class about lesson's topic
- Teacher distribute HOs - ICQ - By doing these task, students will be aware of holiday types - Let them do it individually - peer checking or pair work should be run - Monitoring - Feedback: ask students to share with class correct answers
- Ss are assigned to take a look at pictures precisely and guess what the pictures are - ICQ - Elicit new words from students and let them produce the language - IF its needed some CCQS should be run because learners might have some difficulties to understand what the picture is about - Feedback: Elicit new words and remind them the TL again to refresh their minds and keep them focus
- Vocabularies - Eliciting the new vocabularies that students has learned in recent stages - Producing the language - Students elicit and teacher makes a mind map by putting target language 'holiday' in the middle and its types and related new words around to find association between - Then write new words on board - MFP: identifying stress, word type, meaning and pronunciation. - Drill 3 times - Feedback: Then erase the new words and let them repeat after you
- Teacher writes a word which has got a silent letter on board - Teacher elicit pronunciation from Ss - They will be asked " is there any letter that is not pronounced in that word?" - ICQ might be needed - Ss will be asked to write couple of words to check the level of student's understanding about silent letter and make sure they pronounce properly - Then students will be given HOs to circle the silent in the given words list - let them do individually - Peer checking - Feedback: students will listen to recording in page 51 to check their answers or teacher elicit it from students if the speakers do not work
- Ss will be given HOs to choose 2 to 3 statements to share their ideas with his\her group mate - ICQ is essential - Students model the language - Feedback: Students share their ideas with class to practice their speaking skills
- Finally, Ss will be given HOs to choose one holiday from advertisement - Ss should prepare their answers to the questions - ICQ - Monitoring - Do some delayed corrections if its needed - Students in pair share their ideas together - Feedback: then share their ideas with class