Election
Upper-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of expressing certainty in the context of elections
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a expressing certainty in the context of elections
Procedure (29-38 minutes)
Students are divided into breakout rooms to discuss their imagined life on an island nation.
Teacher elicits answers from the student about their imagined life on this fictional island.
Students read statements made by two potential presidential candidates from this fictional island. Teacher will review statements with students and elicit pronunciation practice.
Students complete a task regarding verb usage in statements about certainty.
Teacher elicits answers for the task completed from the students and corrects the task with them.
Students are divided into breakout rooms to discuss one of the fictional presidential candidates and the statements they have made.
Teacher elicits answers from students regarding what they talked about in breakout rooms.
Students are divided into breakout rooms to discuss one of the fictional presidential candidates and the statements they have made.
Teacher highlights good use of the target language and goes over any misuse or mispronunciation with the class.