Roberto Durán Roberto Durán

CELTA TP6 - Roberto Duran
Upper intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, I aim to provide practice and revise functional language related to telling and comparing stories. The lesson is oriented around the topic of conflicting statements and the reconstruction of events. It includes exercises adapted from the book New Cutting Edge: Upper Intermediate, from Longman. This is my sixth Teaching Practice lesson for the part-time CELTA course.

Materials

Abc Exercises on page 32, 33 and 34.
Abc CD 1 Module 3, Tracks 2 & 3

Main Aims

  • To provide review and practice of language used for telling a story and comparing two stories.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversations with peers in the context of telling a story and comparing different stories.

Procedure

Lead-in (5-5 minutes) • To engage students in the topic of the lesson (retelling a story)

1. Show learners the pictures from Module 3 in page 32 and 33, as well as the vocabulary in page 32, in Google Jamboard. 2. The pictures will be jumbled up, and I will ask learners to interact with the Jamboard, and organize the pictures in the order they believe the events represented in the pictures have happened. 3. I will also ask them to describe what they think happened, and place some of the words next to the pictures in the Jamboard.

Text work (gist listening task) (4-5 minutes) • Have learners focus on a general understanding of the text.

1. With the help of Slides, show learners the following questions: - What are some of the differences between the woman's story, and Bill's story? - Whose side of the story do you believe? Was the police right to arrest Bill and his friend? 2. Have learners listen to the two accounts of the story, and answer the question based on the recordings.

Peer check (gist task) (3-3 minutes) • To boost the learner's confidence and encourage peer learning.

The learners share and check their answers to the previous activity with a peer, via Breakout Rooms.

Open Class Feedback (gist task) (4-4 minutes) • To check if students have understood the text and for them to confirm and/or justify their answers.

1. Briefly ask each of the learners' groups about their response to the task. 2. Discuss their answers and check gist understanding.

Language clarification (10-11 minutes) • To clarify Meaning, Form and Pronunciation of the lexical set.

1. Recall the first part of the lexical set from the following statements present in the text, and ask learners who made each of these statements: - "It had been snowing for several hours." - "As I was getting back into bed, I heard this dreadful noise outside." - "Suddenly this police car drew up, and two police officers got out. " 2. Ask learners about the way they described and compared the stories, and how it differed from the way the stories were told. Ask them to describe the emotion present in the following statements (second part of the lexical set): - "She didn't mention anything about the snow." - "She claimed that she saw it all". 3. Check Form by asking learners to identify which of the sentences in the lexical set uses the past continuous tense, and which one uses the past perfect continuous. 4. Have learners identify the "functional chunks", by having them identify which parts of the sentences in the lexical set can be exchanged. Utilize the Jamboard and have them do a "drag and drop exercise" to identify the chunks. 5. Show the pronunciation, intonation and stress pattern of the five sentences in the lexical, and have learners take turns to read them. Drill with the group if necessary.

Controlled practice (3-3 minutes) • To evaluate the capacity of learners to utilize the lexical set in a controlled setting.

1. Share with learners a Google Forms test with the Language Focus 1 exercise in page 34 of the Student Book. 2. Have them answer the test on their own, before sharing their answers.

Open Class Feedback (controlled practice) (2-2 minutes) • To check if students have understood the functional chunks and for them to confirm and/or justify their answers.

1. Briefly ask each of the learners about their response to the task. 2. Show the answer key to the learners (in Google Forms).

Free practice (peer work) (6-6 minutes) • To evaluate the capacity of learners to utilize the lexical set in a freer setting.

1. Put learners in pairs and have them tell the story from the point of view of one of the police officers, and Frank (Bill's friend). 2. One of the learners will take the role of the police officer, and one of them will take the role of Frank. They will choose their role based on the following prompts: - "We were having a quiet evening when...." (Police officer) - "My mate Bill had said that there was something odd about the drinks at the Christmas party..." (Frank) 3. Have learners take notes of their peer's story, in preparation for the following exercise.

Open Class Feedback (free practice) (4-4 minutes) • To check if students have understood the functional chunks and for them to confirm and/or justify their answers.

1. Ask some of the learner's to briefly summarize their partner's story, and mention the points that they found the most interesting. Note: Make sure to ask different groups, and to ask for both prompts (the police officer's story and Frank's story).

Delayed Error Correction (2-3 minutes) • To clarify common errors without interrupting the flow of the lesson.

1. Give feedback on the previous task, regarding the learners' language use and ability to talk about the topic. 2. Present 2 or 3 common errors I identified during observation of the class, and introduce them to the class utilizing Google Jamboard. Provide context on the mistakes and present how to correct them.

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