Emotions & challenging situations
Intermediate, Grade 6, B2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of meaning, form, pronunciation and practice of emotional adjectives in the context of outdoor orienteering activities
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a Conversation in the context of feelings and emotions description in challenging situations
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To provide product writing practice of a short descriptive paragraph in the context of feelings and emotions description in challenging situations
Procedure (30-45 minutes)
T asks Ss a personalized question if the enjoy living in the countryside? Why and why not? Then, T displays a poster of orienteering activity and asks Ss to notice the faces of characters, their facial expressions and gestures trying to describe the reason of the feeling of each one and to recognize who's leading the expedition group or who's the team leader?
As a prediction activity, T invites Ss to match the words with the correct characters in pairs. While doing that, T diagnoses the common mistakes and the most unknown adjectives Once they are done, the mistakes they have on the worksheet/HO1, essentially getting T ready for the next stage.
T goes over all of the adjectives and clarifying TL using ECDW technique with visuals on board. The words that Ss won't have a problem with can be pushed through in a faster manner. The ones they previously get wrong needs to be addressed in a more calm manner where list of elicitation questions and CCQs of the word is done extensively. Ss are divided into groups A and B trying to match the words with correct definitions. Then, T will play a game with the students called guess the word whether describes negative or positive feelings and nominate S from each group to stick adjectives slips in each category of the graphic organizer on the board.
Ss will be given a final test where they have to complete the blanks of a poem with the emotional adjectives. T spreads HO2 and determined 3 mins as an activity time-limit to complete the task. They will do this alone! ICQs What do we put in the empty places? (Adjectives describes feelings). Once the students are done have them swap papers and do a peer correction after T gives OCFB on the board. Once they have done, Ss are invited to semi-controlled practice where they are divided into 2 groups, Xs and Os playing a board game speaking activity (Tic-Tac-Toe) for 10 mins where T draws a box with 6 squares asks Ss of each group their feeling in certain challenging situation and they have to provide a full correct sentence describes their emotions using the adjectives they have just learned.
Ss are divided into pairs checking some pictures to describe using 2 or 3 adjectives and write couple sentences for a short paragraph. After finishing they could stick their written paragraphs on board as a walk gallery for others to read and voting the best description. While doing this task T monitors, gives assistance if needed especially for weak Ss, then T praises the good ones and gives OC delayed error correction on board and declaring the winners.