Speaking practice for future plans
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide speaking practice in a future plans and planning in the context of Travel, Holiday
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide exposure
Procedure (48-60 minutes)
Here I will start with a simple introduction. "Ramadan has been a long month and I think we deserve to go on holiday. Eid is coming up soon, where would you like to go to? I would love to go to New Zealand because it's a beautiful country with many things to see and do. What about you?" Here I will use pictures of supple coasts, alluring pools and oceans, pictures of people smiling and having a grand ol' time. Use prompts like "After two week I'm going to relax at home and do nothing, I won't be going to work or feeling tired" . I have to really get them pumped for this stage and I can ask about last year's plans while keeping the use of the past at a minimal. I'm afraid they might get confused shifting between tenses in the lesson, however I think it should be fine. I will use the lead-in to scan for the the use of present continuous, meaning I want to see if they will use the correct form or concept of future planning which will make the other stages move smoothly even if only one student used it but if they don't then I have to revise it quickly. The useful language are mainly questions easy enough for the students to answer.
Use of pictures with the words they will not know or understand Camping Special Impersonal Guggenheim museum Fantastic This cannot take more than five minutes maximum.
Here the students will listen to an audio with a small exercise to answer where they have to tick the things or activities the individuals liked or didn't like using ( a tick and a cross respectively) There are a few words that need to be covered which have been mentioned in the PTV section, mainly "Impersonal" I will explain how this listening activity works. The students will listen to their experiences and hear about places and activities to do while on holiday, the purpose of which is to offer them context and additional information for the speaking task. In this audio the useful language is used at the end "where they're going next holiday" T-S explanation: We will listen to an audio about two couples on holiday, listen carefully to what they talk about to answer the questions in the box. -handout the task- Tick right for the things they liked and cross for the things they didn't like, in the boxes next to the words, work alone. ICQs: 1- are we matching or marking? Marking 2- Are we marking the things they liked only? No, what they didn't like too 3- Are we listening to one couple or two? Two
Here I will highlight the question used in the audio and the use of the present continuous when talking about future plans. I will briefly go over the form to assist the students with their speaking task verb to be + ing or I am going to + infinitive then i will elicit the questions from the students giving them sentences where they have to change into questions I'm going to the North coast next week. change this into a question Where are you going? When are you going? I'm going with my friends who are you going with? I'm going by car? How are you going to the North Coast?
Use the questions and useful language to prep them for the speaking task Here I will have them do EX 5 (a) for 10 minutes while switching the interaction patterns I will then have them write down these plans with short answers and have them switch their holidays with their partners and make it more interesting
In this stage I will highlight mistakes and correct them with the students while providing them feedback and having a number of students tell me about their plans