TP 6, Speaking
A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will have practiced speaking in the context of giving advice related health issues.
Subsidiary Aims
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By the end of the lesson, students will have revised and learned some useful expressions to talk about health issues.
Procedure (48-60 minutes)
* If Ss come late from the break, T will talk with available Ss until the rest of the Ss come: T shares his cover slide which has some flags of the teachers and the Ss countries (Egypt, Ecuador, Turkey, Wales, Somalia, Syria, and Kazakhstan). It also has some greetings from three different languages (English, Spanish, and Turkish). -T greets the Ss and shows a comic of a man and a woman. The woman asks “ why do you always give me an apple?”. - T asks the students “why do you think the lawyer gives her girlfriend an apple instead of something like a flower?”. - Ss respond with their ideas. - T shows three pictures in order ( an apple, a day in a month, and a doctor saying goodbye) and makes Ss guess and think of the piece of advice. - T shows the joke and asks the Ss to read and tell him the answer “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”. - T asks Ss: what do you do to keep the doctor away? - Ss answer the question and the teacher should support with an example: I always eat healthy food and play football twice a week.
- T plays the audio. - Ss listen. - Ss role-play the conversation. - T monitors and gives feedback when needed.
- T shares a slide of some pieces of advice related to health issues. - T plays the audio. - Ss listen carefully. - Ss may ask about the arrow they see over the sentences. - T answers: it shows how your voice changes when giving advice. It becomes low at the end of the sentence. - T drills the expressions and correct Ss mistakes with intonation. - T shows some common health problems with some useful expressions to show sympathy (That's good, That's too hard, etc. - T gives Ss an exercise where they can make some imperatives to give advice in positive and negative cases.
Task 1: -T shares a slide that has some famous people and they have health problems. - T asks the Ss to think and give each one of them two pieces of advice. - Ss think and are sent to BORs to share their pieces of advice. - Ss come back from BORs and share their pieces of advice with the rest of the class. -T monitors and gives feedback. Task 2 (optional): - T shares a slide that has 4 pictures of famous athletes and 8 questions to discuss.
- Feedback can be given from the very beginning of the lesson. - During productive tasks, T monitors and takes notes of mistakes. - T shows examples of correct and incorrect sentences without mentioning the names of the Ss who made these mistakes. - T discusses the examples with the Ss.
- T asks and Ss answer or Ss as and answer. - This should be only introduced if there is enough time remaining.