TP6 Functions.
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice and revise functional language to discuss ambition and achievements in the context of talking about their own lives.
Subsidiary Aims
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• To provide gist listening practice using a text about ambitions/dreams and achievements in the context of 5 people talking about their lives.
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of ambitions/dreams and achievements,
Procedure (40 minutes)
- T shares the link and displays Jamboard with the topic of "Ambitions and achievements" - T clarifies the meaning of both words through CCQs. Points at 'ambitions' and asks: Are they sth that I've done or sth that I want to do? (sth I want to do) Points at 'achievements' and asks: Are they sth that I've done or sth that I want to do? (sth I've done) - Instruction: Use the add post-its tool and share some of your ambitions or achievements. - T gives 2 short examples. - Ss write their ambitions and achievements, so the whole group can see them.
- T shares google forms link. - Instructions: Listen to 5 people talking about their ambitions/dreams, or about their biggest achievement. Match the names with the pictures. ICQs. Are you listening for detail or just to get a general idea? (a general idea) - T reproduces audio. - SS answer the task. - SS check their answers in pairs. 2 mins - T conducts OCFB by displaying the correct answers.
MEANING. 4 mins - T displays sentences and ss identify which of them discuss ambitions/ dreams or achievements. - T provides OCFB and asks CCQs. 1. I sth that I did in the past or that I want to do in the future? (in the future) 5. Did I get into university? (yes) How do I feel about it? (very proud) - T displays a cline and asks learners: How much does the person want to do these things? - SS put the sentences in order. FORM. 3 mins - T highlights two parts of some sentences. And asks ss: What part of the sentences can me change and what part is a fixed expression? - Ss answer. - T elicits the words that can go after the fixed expressions. PRONUNCIATION. 3 mins - T asks ss: What are the most important words in these 2 sentences? - Ss answer and T models sentence stress and elicit choral repetition. - T reads the third sentence with two different intonations, and asks ss which is the correct one? APPROPIACY. 2 mins - T asks: Generally, with who do we talk about these topics? With a stranger or with our friends? (with our friends) - Are contractions formal or informal? (informal) - When is more common to use this language? (informal situations)
- Instructions: Fill in the blanks with the phrases of the box. You have 2 mins. ICQs. Do you have to fill in the blanks with your own ideas? (no) With what? (words from the box) - Ss answers. - SS check in pairs. 2 mins - T conducts OCFB, by displaying the answers.
Set task 3 mins - Instructions: Choose an ambition and an achievement that you have. In Jamboard write short notes about what you would like to say. - T models task. ICQs. Do you have to write everything you want to say? (no) Just short notes - Ss write. - Instructions: In small groups, share your ideas. Ask follow-up questions. You have 7 mins - T models task with a strong ss. - Ss go into BoR.
- T conduct OCFB, by asking some ss if they had sth in common with their partners and what was the most interesting thing they heard. - T writes ss ideas on the board. - T conducts DEC, by writing some samples of the ss production, asking learners to identify the correct and incorrect sentences and correct the latter ones.