Topic: keeping fit: simple past lesson /giving advice
Pre-intermediate / grade 7 / A1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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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
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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 (1-20 minutes)
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.