Places around the city
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification of places around the city
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of describing places that surround students' houses
Procedure (47-60 minutes)
As a lead in I will show students three pictures one of the country, one of the village, and one of the city, get them to compare the pictures together. "look, what's this? in two minutes discuss with you partner the differences. Now tell me what's number one, what's number two?, what's number three? So, do you like living in the city? why or why not. T makes an open class discussion and makes sure to involves all the students.
T gives instructT divides student into two groups.ions clearly. Now I am going to give you sets of words about different places that we can see in the city you will match them with right pictures. T demonstrates once or twice with students. "Now you have to finish the rest, you have ten minutes T ICQs to check understanding of the instructions. “How much time do you have?” (Ten Minutes) After 5 minutes T asks few members to change the group and to do some peer correction T gives the answer key. Quick feedback
T presents and analyses the target language using the MPF aspect. T uses CCQs to concept check the meaning of the words and phrases
To make sure that students have understood what each word means, T will prepare a set of lexical words that can be categorized by the place where it belongs. Again the T will divide the students into two groups. "Now, in 10 Minutes I want you to put the words that relate to the places we have seen" T shows an example on the projector. "So, how much time do you have? (10 minutes) T plays background music while students are doing the task. T changes group members and allows peer corrections after four to five minutes T provides the answer key Quick feedback
T puts the students in pairs. "Now, you have 30 seconds, close your eyes and think of all the places that surround your house, the place where you live" T plays a background music. " And now, you are going to talk as many people as you can and mention some places that you can see and that are near your house, and let your partner guess where do you live" T demos "Where I live there is a sport center called Dallas fitness, where I live the president's house in very close, where I live there a metro station and there is the metro number 5" "can you guess where do I live" 'Mnihla" T uses ISQs just to make sure students understood the instructions "So are you going to tell you partner where you live or let them guess?" (they guess) "are you going to tell them about the places that are near your house? (YES) "If you partner cannot guess the place or cannot guess it, are you going to find another partner? (yessss) Now you can start you have ten minutes