Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a To introduce and provide practice of speaking in the context of Fluency in the context of describing an event
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a Students conversation about a topic in the context of Whether traveling on a plane frecuently is healthy or unhealthy
Procedure (40-45 minutes)
Expose an image of a plane and a person being attended by a doctor so set up context and ask the following CCQ: What can you tell me about this image?
Get Ss to read an article with information about benefits and problems frequent travelers may experience. This will trigger knowledge from Ss experiences. Ss go to Breakout Rooms and answer the following CCQ: Do you think frequent travelers have more problems than benefits for their health? why Bring them back to main room and get feedback.
Get Ss to look at a jamboard slide and read information in more detail, participate with their opinions whether they agree or disagee with the statement exposed to them about the health of frequent travelers. T will then go through MFP in the same slide by mentioning the meaning (research shows that there are advantages and disadvantages about traveling on a plane frequently), form will use parts of speech, and tenses. ('traveling(verb) on (preposition) a (conjunction) plane (noun)' is the present-continuous) and the pronunciation (using stress, intonation and linking sounds)
This will be the speaking task where T gets Ss to practice their seating skill amongst each other by discussing their opinions in Breakout Rooms for 5 minutes interchanging with their peers.
Content based FB, Ss tell the group about their opinions and whether the opinions have changed from when they first saw the image.