New lesson plan: Teaching Practice 7

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Teaching Practice 7 - Upper Intermediate level

Teaching Practice 7
Upper Intermediate level

Materials

TP7 Slides

TP7 Activity Slides

Padlet

TP7 Slides

TP7 Activity Slides

Padlet

Main Aims

To provide product writing practice in the context of writing an email of complaint

Subsidiary Aims

To enhance their formal email writing skills

Procedure (37-56 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To engage learners and activate their schemata and set the context of the class

1. As a group, discuss what could be said in the email of the angry customer. 2. Nominate 2-3 students to share their ideas.

Layout (8-10 minutes) • To analyze and/or identify elements of layout that provide coherence and cohesion in the text

1. INSTRUCTIONS: You have 6 minutes to read the customer complaint email. As you're reading, focus on the transition phrases between the paragraphs. 2. In main group, nominate students to put phrases in proper column. -Example: drag and drop the phrase that would be a greeting for an email. 3. OCFB

Formulaic Language (8-10 minutes) • To analyze and/or identify language conventions in the text

1. Meaning: Complaint - a statement that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable -If we're writing a complaint email, we are not happy about a situation. 2. Form: Reexamine the order of paragraphs. 3. Appropriacy: -CCQs: When writing a complaint email, do you have to be formal or informal? Formal. Why? Need to be taken seriously.

Parallel Practice (8-12 minutes) • To practice the layout and language conventions previously seen in writing some writing exercises

1. INSTRUCTIONS: Fill in the blank with the correct option from the list. 2. In BORs, students review answers 3. OCFB, nominate students to share answers. Do you notice a pattern for writing an email? There is a strict order.

Freer Practice (10-20 minutes) • To produce a similar text based on the sample for fluency purposes.

1. Share padlet link with group 2. INSTRUCTIONS: Write a complaint email. (8 minutes) 3. Once complete, assign students a peer's email to rate. INSTRUCTIONS: Rate your partners email from 1 to 5 stars. 4. Choose 2-3 student emails to discuss, ask peer why they gave that rating.