Elizabeth Gutiérrez Martínez Elizabeth Gutiérrez Martínez

TP6_Functional language_Elizabeth
Upper-intermediate level

Description

This lesson introduces and provides speaking practice for using a functional language in the context of online dating. Students will develop speaking skills in groups with the lead-in and the freer task, and they will also practice some writing before they go to the breakout rooms in the freer task.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide accuracy speaking practice in a discussion in pairs in the context of online dating.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide clarification of expressions to agree or disagree politely in the context of online dating.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-6 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students in the context of online dating

- T shares Jamboard with Ss - T displays the following questions: 1) Have you ever used an online dating app? Would you use any of them? Do you think it is as great as in the video? - T plays the video. - T demos with her personal opinion. - Instructions: Discuss your answers in pairs. - Students discuss in Breakout rooms (3 min) - T conducts OCFB and asks a couple of students their opinion (1 min)

Content preparation and Text work (5-7 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading.

- T displays a blank slide, so students tell the teacher, "Expressions they know for agreeing or disagreeing???? - T types students' answers. - T displays the next slide. - T asks two students to read out loud the dialogue. - T asks them to reread it individually, and while they are reading, they have to type in the chatbox the expression they find to agree or disagree. - INSTRUCTIONS: Reread the text, write in the chatbox the expressions to agree or disagree. - T praises good work.

Useful Language/Clarification (15-18 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

- T explains the different expressions to agree or disagree. * I agree/ I disagree/ I don't agree - T explains how to agree or disagree politely. * Do you think so? I see what you mean; I couldn't agree more; I wouldn't say that; I see your point, you might be right there, I'm still not convinced. - T elicits the requirements to sound polite. - T demos the intonations. - T asks students to make different intonations.

Controlled Practice (4-6 minutes) • To allow students to get used to the forms they learned

- Instructions: Individually, answer the next exercise. (3 min) - OCFB with a couple of students check some answers. (2min)

Productive Task/ Freer practice (5-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

- Instructions: Individually, write some ideas about the following statements. (2 min) - T demos her answer. - Instructions: In pairs, discuss the ideas you wrote, and say if you agree or disagree with your partner's ideas. Use the language learned. - Learners work in pairs and discuss. (Breakout rooms) (3 minutes) Students change peers as many times as possible. If there are just two or three students, they will have double of time. - T conducts OCFB following up on the productive stage.

Feedback and Error Correction (4-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

- T writes samples of learners’ production on the screen and sets a task for the whole group to identify the correct and incorrect sentences and correct the latter ones. - T conducts OCFB

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