TP 1
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To enable students to practice reading for gist and detail in the context of an article about a tv program that does social experiments.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide students speaking practice and a chance to exercise their creativity by giving them the opportunity to create their own social experiments.
Procedure (39-45 minutes)
Introduce the topic by showing students a Google slide with four questions. Ask students how they would answer these questions. Gather feedback and write their answers on the Google slide as a way to collect some ideas. Tell the students that today's article will provide some answers to these questions. Four Questions: 1. If you wanted to persuade someone to dress up as a tree, what would you do? 2. What would you do if you were selling cakes, but nobody was buying them? 3. What would you do if you wanted to convince people you were an expert? 4. What would you do if you wanted to get ideas for experiments to do in public?
Meaning Demonstrate the activity using Google Slides. Students should match the words to the pictures. After students have finished matching, check answers and some CCQs to see if they understand the meaning of the words. Confirm the definitions of the words before moving on. Answers: Hairdresser - picture of a woman doing someone's hair. Hidden camera - picture of a plug with a hidden camera in it. Hold a sale - picture of a store with sale signs Raise money for charity - picture of a jar of coins Pronunciation Show students the pronunciation slide. Tell students to sort the words by syllable count and word stress into one of three columns. Confirm answers and drill pronunciation. Answers: O raise hold sale Oo money hidden Ooo camera charity hairdresser
Provide students with the Google form (Paragraph Sorting). Indicate to students that the questions on the Google Form are the same as the Lead-In questions. Tell students they will read through the text and select what paragraphs contain the answers for the various questions. Inform them that one paragraph will not be used. Do OCF after all have submitted responses. Answers: 1. If you wanted to persuade someone to dress up as a tree, what would you do? A: Paragraph 5 2. What would you do if you were selling cakes, but nobody was buying them? A: Paragraph 3 3. What would you do if you wanted to convince people you were an expert hairdresser? A: Paragraph 4 4. What would you do if you wanted to know why people do the things they do? A: Paragraph 2
Show students the Google form (Reading for Detail). Explain to the students that they have to read the article closely and write in their own answers on the Google Form. Instruct the students that they will complete this task on their own first. Afterward, they will put in pairs or groups (depending on the number of students). Instruct the students to not submit their Google Forms until after they have checked with their fellow students. Ask ICQs to check that they have understood directions (ex: Will you do the task in groups or by yourselves first? Will you hit submit on Google Forms after finishing the task by yourself?) After doing individually, divide the students into groups and assign them to BORs. Have students check their answers and also work together to help solve any problems they couldn't solve during individual work. Bring students back into open class and go over answers together. Answers: 1. What question does the programme try to answer? A: Why we do what we do / Why we behave the way we do in everyday situations 2. How did Wiseman's team carry out their research? A: They do experiments with people in public while using a hidden camera to film the results. 3. What was the 'trick' to get people to buy cakes? A: They held a fake sale. 4. What 'trick' did Emma, the fake hairdresser, use? A: She talked like a hairdresser and dropped bits of fake hair. She didn't actually cut any hair. 5. What is 'the foot in the door technique'? A: If you want a big favor from someone, first ask for a small favor.
Teacher tells students that the students will now think of their own social experiments. Tell students that they will work in groups to think of a social experiment they would like to try, what question about human behavior it would answer, and how they would go about performing this experiment. Also inform the students that they should note their ideas down on the Jamboard. Teacher then shows an example of the end result of their ideas. Teacher puts students in pairs or groups of three in BORs and gives them time to discuss and note down their ideas. Bring the class back to OC and have students share their social experiment ideas in a feedback session. Write their examples on a Jamboard while also taking note of errors. Do delayed error correction. Speaking Activity Questions: - What question do you have about human behavior? - What social experiment would you like to do to answer this question? - How would you do this social experiment? - What results will we check and how will we check them?