Materials
Main Aims
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To enable students to develop their speaking skills in the context of talking about things they can't live without.
Subsidiary Aims
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To enable students to develop their reading skills in the context of a survey about things people in the U.K. can't live without.
Procedure (40 minutes)
PREDICTION/ BRAINSTORM: Teacher starts the lesson by showing a collection of images, and ask the entire class what each image depicts individually, and as a collection, what topic they point to. FB: After students answer, teacher confirms the topic— Sharing things one can't live without, and specifically linkers that students can use to express when talking about things they can't live without.
READING. Teacher provides students a infographic about a survey within the context of things people can't live without, which contains useful language related to the topic. The teacher nominates 4-5 students to read the parts of the infographic. Then, the teacher asks students the following questions: l Do the results surprise you? 2 Do you think the results would be different in your country? 3 What do you think would be in the top ten in your country? Students have a slide where they answer these questions. Next, students say their answers in Open Class Feedback.
MEANING/FORM TASK COMMUNICATIVE GROUP TASK: Teacher has the students go to the correct slides on Google to complete first a matching task between linkers in conversation and their uses, some of which may be new to students. FB: Teacher provides answer key. COMMUNICATIVE GROUP WORK: Then students work together again to complete an assorted task on form. Teacher instructs the students clearly on how to complete the task. FB: Teacher goes over this slide carefully and provides feedback. PRONUNCIATION: Teacher shares a slide with the linkers and the word stress and proper pronunciation of: actually, in in other words, to put it another way, what I mean is, as 1 was saying, anyway, anyhow.