TP6 Functional Language
B2/C1 level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide students with more confidence in expressing and engaging opinions
Subsidiary Aims
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Providing ample speaking practice and improving pronunciation
Procedure (39-45 minutes)
Open jamboard. Pose question - What do you think of pineapple on pizza? Do you like or dislike it? Talk about how it's not your personal preference and talk a little about what your preferences actually are. Open the class up to some light conversation about pizza preferences.
T shares gist task with students. Students have 1 minute to skim read text and choose person most opposed to pineapple on pizza. Check answers afterwards. T shares wordwall intensive task. Students fill in blanks of dialogue with correct words. 3 minutes to complete and send task. Check answers. T shares jamboard sorting task. Students have to work in breakout rooms to sort informal and formal ways of agreeing and disagreeing. 3 minutes allocated before feedback. Move on to second sorting task: fully agreeing and partially agreeing. Another 3 minutes before feedback is given. T opens word stress task on google doc. Students work again in breakout rooms to highlight stressed words. 3 minutes allocated before open class feedback is given. Stressed words: totally/exactly/same, afraid/different/say
T shares wordwall activity with students and asks them to categorise different phrases used in conversations involving opinions. Allocate 6 minutes for completion of task before performing feedback.
T shares google doc with all students. Ask them to choose from various conversation topics to facilitate debates using target language. Remind them to refer to target language phrases at bottom of google doc as reference. Put them into breakout rooms for 10 minutes.
T to praise examples of good language use, but draw upon most common errors committed in free practice, making corrections accordingly and allowing students to ask questions if confused.