Katerine Díaz Katerine Díaz

SPEAKING
PRE INTERMIDIATE level

Description

In this lesson, the students will foster their fluency while talking about ambitions.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To introduce and provide practice of speaking for fluency for talking about ambitions and achievements in the context of greatest achievements.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in short conversations in the context of ambitions

Procedure

Anticipated Problems and Solutions
Warmer/Lead-in (3-6 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

1. Have learners talk about these questions related to the topic of the lesson: - Is there anything you have done you are proud of? what? - Is there anything you would like to do, but probably won't? - Is there anything you want to do one day?

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

Students will listen to 5 people talking about their ambitions/ dreams, or about their biggest achievement. While listening to the audio, students figure out which pictures belong to which person. Then share Ss share their answers , and listen again to verify if they got their answers right.

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

Ss make a list of 4 or 5 ambitions/ dreams/ achievements that they have in their life. Ss think about what and how they would like to say about each thing, using some of the expressions below: - I've always wanted to... - It's always been my dream to... -I'd also like to... - My greatest achievement was when I ... - One thing I've done that I'm very proud of is... Then, Ss share their lists to the class

Productive Task(s) (5-8 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Ss tell each other their ambitions(if there is more than 1 student) then they find: - Who has the most interesting or unusual ambition. - If they have any similar ambitions.

Feedback and Error Correction (8-10 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

DEC As students are talking, I take notes noticing potential mistakes, and type those sentences, So, students can identify points to improve and correct them.

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