Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of staying fit and healthy
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide review and practice of words in the context of staying fit and healthy
Procedure (47-54 minutes)
I will show students images of Usain Bolt and will ask them who he is and what he does to elicit speaking from them. Then I will ask them what an athlete has to do to win? This will emphasize the need for exercise and a healthy diet. Finally I will ask them two discussion questions. 1. What should you do to maintain a healthy lifestyle? 2. Do you think being healthy can make you happier, why?
I will give the students a short matching activity where a verb is matched with a particular phrase. I will scaffold the activity with the students. We will do the activity together as a whole class.
Vocabulary Section I will review vocabulary language from the book is useful for students to have during the conversation activity. I will Elicit MFP from students first, then I will explain. For Pronunciation I will be giving students a chart with all the words that were reviewed. Through this I will ask students how many syllables the words has and where the intonation is. Finally, we will do choral drilling. See Vocabulary on TLAS
I will give students a hypothetical scenario and questions that they need to answer about the scenario. The questions are: Imagine that today you had a very healthy lifestyle. The healthiest you could possibly be. 1. What would your day look like? E.g - (Waking up in the morning, going to work, exercising, what would you eat, any sports?) 2.What would you do, and what wouldn’t you do? E.g - (I wouldn’t take the elevator, I would sleep less, I would eat less or more food). 3. Will this make you happy? Why? Why Not? I will put students in BORs and in the middle of the task I will switch the BORs so the students can do the speaking activity with other classmates. If possible I will switch three times. Meanwhile I will be shadowing.
Delayed Error correction. I will leave a couple of minutes at the end to give feedback to students. I will focus on the most common errors and also give some examples of things that I heard. Then, I will let them know what is a correct way to say things, or what it a better way to speak about a certain phrase, object or topic.