Grammar Lesson
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To enable students to better understand yes/no questions.
Subsidiary Aims
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To enable studenrs to develop their listening skills in the context of a text about search engines and technology.
Procedure (37-49 minutes)
Show students a photo of a photo of someone cancelling plans via text message. Teacher then asks students: - What do you see in the photo? - What does the photo tell you? - What does the text say? Students respond. Next teacher asks them: - Have you ever been in this situation? - How do you feel when this happens to you? Students respond. Teacher tells that changing arragements will be the lesson for the day,
Students listen to a phone conversation between two friends, Pedro and Sara, and complete 6 extracts from the phone conversation. Each extract has a gap that students need to fill in with predetermined words. The teacher plays another audio that says the answers to the previous actitivy. Students listen and check if their answers are correct. Then, the teacher tells students to say the correct sentences aloud.
Students do a matching activity. They match the four paragraphs of the text to their corresponding headings.
Elicit students to say how they would ask someone if they did something. Example: - So, how would you ask someone if they turn off the computer? This would give them the chance to mention a yes/no question in the past simple form. After they've done that, you tell them that what they just said is called a yes/no question in the past simple and that those are used to check if someone did something. Then, you introduce the form with a table that shows the questions and the short answers.
Students rewrite sixyes/no questions in the correct order. Once they finish, yopu check their answers. Then, they will listen to an audio about Larry and Sergey's lives and they will answer the yes/no questions they rewrote in the previous activity. All of the students will work on the same slide but each one will anwer only one question. Next, they do a pronunciation activity. This activity consists of them finding the stress in words realted to the text and audio and collocating them in one of the following boxes: -Stress on the first syllable -Stress on the second syllable -Stress on the third syllable
Students work in pairs. Each students asks two yes/no question to their partner and they answer with short answers. They can ask follow-up questions to make the free practice more dynamic.