Deneesha Williams Deneesha Williams

TP5_LP Deneesha Williams
Elementary Upper Intermediate level

Description

The aim of this lesson is to introduce and provide practice of speaking for fluency. Students will practice this speaking for fluency in the context of retelling a story.

Materials

Main Aims

  • To introduce and provide practice of speaking for fluency in the context of retelling a story. Additionally to highlight adjectives that help students to describe people, emotions and situations that people find themselves in the context of retelling a story.

Subsidiary Aims

  • Listening to provide students with opportunity to hear natural accents to mimic in their speaking practice. Reading will be used as back up in case audios to do not play as planned.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Use google jam board to show students pictures from the text. Ask students to use words from the lesson to form sentences with the words from the text. This procedure will be done in the open class setting as a group.

Exposure - Useful Language 1 & Audio (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through listening

First discuss language content with students in open group format (4) After language content lesson, place students in Break out Groups, Group A and Group B and instruct them to listen to audio together no more than 2 times (4) After listening to audio discuss with peers what story was about, students will be provided questions to aid in their discussion of the audio (2)

Useful Language 2 (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Words to describe people, situations and emotions related to the story will be taught (4) Useful language B will be presented to students to use for the tasks of comparing stories (4)

Productive Task(s) (12-14 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

In this stage students will be partnered with peers from opposite groups. Provide instructions to students: "You will be paired up, placed in break out rooms, you will take turns retelling story A and Story B to one another. Highlight the differences found between the two stories and any information mentioned by one person but not another. Make a list of differences found that we will discuss together". Students will swap partners and continue discussion (6 minutes) After students are done retelling their stories discuss answers in open classroom. (6)

Feedback and Error Correction (6-7 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Delayed Error Correction, provide feedback students, address any language concerns related to the topic, listen carefully to their speaking.

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