Teaching practice 2
Pre-Intermediate, A2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide review and practice of quantifiers (some/any) and indefinite articles (a/an) with countable and uncountable nouns in the context of eating and drinking
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a dialog in the context of eating and drinking
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
Sts in groups of 4/5 are shown a picture of a grandfather and a granddaughter having breakfast together and asked to answer 2 questions written on the WB in groups: "What kind of relationship do those people have?", "What are they doing?" (a grandfather and a granddaughter having breakfast together). Then, eliciting what they are having for breakfast ("toast", "jam", "cake", "coffee", the pictures are put on WB), how many toasts/cakes, how much coffee/jam those people have for breakfast, eliciting countable and uncountable nouns, plural and singular nouns. CCQs: Can we count this one, two three?
Sts remain in the same groups. After the concept checking the sts are given HOs and asked to do the ex. 1 and put all the nouns from the dialog to a suitable column. To check the sts are given separate HOs with the right answers (PW). As FB, one of the sts is asked to read the singular nouns column, find these words in the dialog and pay attention to the preceding words (eliciting the rule for a/an/-). After concept checking (what kind of words do we use a/an with? Can we say: "a milk"? can we say: "one milk"? Can we say "some milk"? "any milk"? Etc.), sts do ex. 2 (PW), then check with the answers on the HOs (PW), and the ex. 3 (explain what "words in bold" mean), again checking with separate HOs. FB - WC.
The SS are shown a picture of Roggenbrot bread and asked whether they know what it is. (Pre-teach or elicit, if they have already known it, Roggenbrot bread and comfort food. Ask them what their comfort food is.) WB: "I'll have a / - toast and any / a cup of coffee." "I'm going to make any / some (here must be an example from one of the sts) for dinner." Students are asked to choose the right option (PW). FB: one of the groups comes to the WB and marks the answer to the first sentence, another - to the second.
As a bridge to the previous exercise, the sts are asked whether they need eggs to prepare baklava, and what else do they need, with attention to accuracy of using some, any and the articles. The sts do ex. 5 in different pairs (PW), check the answers with separate HOs (PW), and then with the teacher.
Sts do a role play, one is the grandfather and another is the granddaughter, with the name of a popular dish, and asked to say which products they need to buy to make it using some/any/a. List of products is mentioned in each flash card to facilitate the activity (PW). As FB some of the sts are asked to provide their recipes (WC).