Dominique Arvizu Macias Dominique Arvizu Macias

Materials

Abc Useful Language Activity

Main Aims

  • To introduce and provide practice of writing a biography

Subsidiary Aims

  • To

Procedure

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

-T greets Ss -T shows students a photo of Johnny Deep and a fragment of his biography -T asks students if they know who he is and what is the text written.

Exposure (5-5 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

-T shows the biography of Johnny Deep and asks Ss to read it. -After Ss finish reading it, they have to answer some questions related to the text. -OCFB

Useful Language (7-7 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

-T uses some sentences from the text and students have to say what they are and what they are used for. (Possessive adjectives, pronouns, and adverbs) -T explains that they are used in biographies to avoid repetition.

Productive Task(s) (23-23 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

-T shows students his/her biography as an example. -T asks students to write on a paper what things they will include in their biography. (2 min) -T gives Ss a Google doc where they will write their own biography, they will each have one page to write their biography. (15 min) -After students finish, they will go into breakout rooms and they will share their biographies with their partners. (8 min)

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

-While Ss are in breakout rooms, T will monitor and check for errors, after students finish, T will conduct error correction.

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