TP6 LP_Charles Posey
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To practice and revise functional language to give suggestions and reply to suggestions.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist reading practice using a text about discussing what present to buy a friend in the context of making and replying to suggestions
Procedure (37-49 minutes)
I will ask my students the following questions: 1. I think we should all listen to jazz music. (wait for response) 2. What did I just do? How did you respond? 3. How do you make suggestions? Then I will give some of there potential answers - (no, maybe. possibly... YES!)
Text task: I will present a text for the class in which they will be presented with a conversation between two people making suggestions and replying to them. 1. Instructions - Students will have a three minutes to read over the text individually. 2. Allow reading time - 3 minutes. 3. Demo - show questions, give example, then tell students they now have 3 more minutes to discuss answers. 4. Allow 3 minutes for students to discuss answers 5. Answering Questions - Next, present answers and ask if there are any questions.
I will repeat and highlight useful language for coming tasks in terms of the text the students just read, repeating some of the suggestions/replies they just encountered.
1. MEANING What shall we get her? 1. What about ________? (Suggesting something in question) 2. No, I don’t think so. (Reply to a suggestion negatively) 3. Why don’t we get her a _________? (Suggesting something in question) 4. Maybe. (Reply to a suggestion neutrally) 5. Let’s get her ___________. (Suggesting something in statement) 6. Yes, that’s a good idea (Reply to suggestion in the affirmative) CCQs If you didn’t like the suggestion, would you say yes or no? If you want to suggest, does it have to be in form of a question? Can you answer a suggestion with another suggestion? Problem: Ss may have trouble with the definition of “suggestion”. Solution: I must adequately demonstrate the concept through examples, pictures and nonverbal cues. Problem: Ss may be limited on the language used to make suggestions: why don’t we, let’s do, we should, etc. Solution: Show examples and elicit that the students understand the mechanics of the suggestions. FORM Suggestions can be questions or statements. Suggestions are about doing something. Subject + verb(?) or subject + verb(.) - often with a model verb. “Should we do…?” “We should do…” Problem: students may not understand what a modal verb is. Solution: Illustrate how it is used – goal today is usage not necessarily grammar PRONUNCIATION Review pronunciation from slide. Problem: Students may have trouble with stress and linking. Solution: Provide illustration as well as drill chorally and individually.
Controlled Practice: I will present questions for the class in which they will be presented with matching the words into the correct phrases. 1. Give instructions - Students will have a three minutes to read over the questions and answer individually, then three minutes to answer as a group. 2. Demo - show questions, give example. 3. Allow reading time - 3 minutes. 4. Allow 3 minutes for students to discuss answers 5. Answering Questions - Next, present answers and ask if there are any questions.
Functions Freer Practice - In BOR (3 minutes with partner x 2 rounds) I will ask students to choose suggestions to ask their partner and their partner must reply, using the language they have learned from the lesson. Students will rotate partners to build confidence I will monitor / write potential mistakes for DEC. We will come back from BOR and discuss, review DEC if time allows.