Introducing a friend
Elemantary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide product writing practice of a description of a person in the context of introducing a friend.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide practice of present simple tense in the context of introducing a friend.
Procedure (45 minutes)
The teacher sets the context by showing a picture of one of her friends and asks students to predict; Who is she? What is her age? Where is she from? What is her job? ect. Then the teacher introduces the person as her best friend and tells the details about her. After that the teacher tells the student that they will do the same thing at the end of the lesson.
The teacher focuses students' attention on the photos in Ex 1 and asks them if they recognise the city (London). Then the teacher provides the Ex 1 worksheet in which the students need to match answers with the questions. At the end, the teacher provides the feedback for their answers.
The teacher presents an email in which the students need to fill the gaps with the help of the information in Ex 1. Then the teacher provides feedback for their answers. Afterwards, the teacher gives another task in which the students need to think of someone (or invent someone) to complete the notes in Ex 3. Once the students complete their task the teacher asks them to do a peer check and finally the teacher gives feedback to the whole class.
The teacher asks students to write a description of a friend with the help of Ex 2 and Ex 3.
The teacher monitors students' writing tasks and takes notes for the common grammar mistakes that they have made. Then the teacher writes some of the grammar mistakes on the board and tries to elicit the correct forms from the students.