A quiet weekend
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Main Aims
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To provide review and practice of weekend activities in the context of people from around the world
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide scan and gist reading practice using a text about weekend activities in the context of people from around the world
Procedure (34-47 minutes)
Showing sts various weekend activities on the board and eliciting the topic.
- Ask students to discuss Questions in Q1 p. 50 - Teacher walks around the class to listen to different experiences.
- Instruct sts to go read the text and match their answers to Q1 with the ones given in the text - Instruct the students to talk about the differences in answers with peers
- instruct sts to do question 3 on p.50 - give them 3-4 minutes to do it in pairs/groups
- Instruct sts to check their answers in the text. - conclude the activity by checking the number of correct answers by different students. - give feedback if needed.
- Display the cards H/O on the board, instruct the activity - Put sts in groups and distribute the cards to students (remind them to prepare only questions at this stage) - At this stage, tell sts that each one of them will go around the class filling survey forms and collecting the answers. At the end of the activity, we decide on the most popular weekend activity.
- put sts in pairs - instruct sts to go to Padlet and write about their usual weekends/weekend to remember - tell them to focus on go, play, do + nouns while making sentences - give them 6-8 minutes to do the activity - after the activity finishes, conclude the hour by giving a quick feedback on board.