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Topic: keeping fit: simple past lesson /giving advice
Pre-intermediate / grade 7 / A1 level

Description

In this lesson, students learn about how to keep fit and give advice to stay healthy. They also recycle the use of the simple past in the postive and negative forms through guided discovery. They will understand lexis related to good and bad eating habits and the importance of exercise or physical activity in the context of a reading text. Then students will develop fluency through role playing. By the end, the learners will be able to write a letter of advice to others on how to stay fit

Materials

Abc visuals / handouts / coursebooks / fashcards

Main Aims

  • To provide practice of giving advice on how to keep fit and to develop knowledge of a healthy lifestyle by discovering different types of healthy or unhealthy foods. To understand new lexis in a context and to review and practice forming the past simple positive and negative forms in the context of keeping fit. The lesson also aims at developping fluency and accuracy

Subsidiary Aims

  • To practise pronunciation of the ed past ending verbs, talk about imperatives to give advice and talk about quantity and numbers / countable or uncoutable nouns

Procedure

topic of keeping fit (1-20 minutes) • To develop fluency and accuracy/ to make students aware of language use and to expose the learnersto the context of the target language thruogh a text situation to follow a better lifestyle or to give people advice to avoid health problems

In the beginning of the lesson, the teacher greets the learners and says" good afternoon", and asks a question " how do you feel? The students greet the teacher and may answer " "great",,teacher. Then the teacher starts with a warmer by inviting students to write a few things they did last weekend on strips of papers. He asks learners to form a circle after collecting all the pieces of paper. After that, he or she asks one of the students to read the first caption and the other students guess whose weekend it is. So does the next student and others guess. the student who guesses right runs to the board to write the score and the winner will be the one who gets the highest score. (2 mns) This activity is a brain energizer for the learners. In the lead-- in stage, the teacher sets the context and engages students. The teacher shows some pictures and elicits information . Then, students label pictures and match them with suitable words to introduce vocabulry ( pairwork) In the next activity, the teacher provides a context for the target language through a situation to make the reading activities accessible. He divides students into small groups and students will look at the situations and disscuss together, then write the right sentences to help each person in the given situation to keep fit. After that, the teacher writes sentences that have quantifiers like " many" or" much" and guides the students to discover the target language and draw the rules.( 4mns) In the following stage, the teacher asks students to read a text on page 121 and get the gist of the text. Then,, he / she asks them to read for more details (answer comprehension questions) In this stage, the teacher draws the students' attention to functional language, saying what advice can a person give and how can we give advice to another person .(4 mns) The teacher asks students to work in pairs and pick out the simple past verbs from the text, then classify them into regular and irregular verbs, After reminding them of the rules, , students recycle the simple past in a controlled practice activity. ( individual work / then , peer correction / whole class feedback) (3 mns) The teacher provides new vocabulary related to the topic through a gap- fill activity. Then ,he / she asks the students to work in pairs to give advice to a person who needs help.( pairwork). In the free practice stage, the students will enact the conversation as role play after completing the previous tasks (speaking activity) ( 2mn ) In this final stage, students will write a short letter to give advice to a persn who is not fit. (5 mns) They can use the vocabulary and grammar structures learned in this lesson. As a follow-up activity, the teacher can ask the students to create their own healthy meal plan to the class.or play a game of " Who am I ?" where the students have to guess the healthy item you are describing.

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