Speaking
intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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By the end of the lesson, the students will have been better able to speak for fluency in the context of an activity review.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide detailed listening practice in the context of an activity review.
Procedure (32-45 minutes)
-Greet your Ss. -Display 2 pictures about activities that I like doing to enjoy my time. -Ask Ss. what do you do to enjoy yourself? -Elicit the answer from one of the Ss. and then ask all of them to talk n pairs and exchange ideas. -Get the feedback. -Display pictures of different types of activities and ask Ss. to guess them. -Set the task by informing Ss. to mark the activities from 1-4 according to their lives routine using a Cline and mentioning the interaction pattern and the time needed. -Ask ICQs to check their understanding of the task. ICQs are: Are you going to match the 2 columns? Are you going to rate from 1-4 ,individually? - Get the feedback.
-Pre-teach the lexis that they will use through pictures and eliciting the words and their parts of speech.Words are( costume-lyrics-set-special effects -photography) -Set the context of the listening task by introducing 3 pictures to the 3 tracks. -Set the task by giving instructions and ask ICQS to check their understanding. ICQS are: Are you going to fill the table according to the tracks? Are you working individually? -Demonstrate the 1st question with the Ss. -Ask ss. to check in pairs. -Display the answer-key on the board. -Ask Ss. for any challenging questions to clarify them. -
-Display set of questions on board and model and drill some of them and highlight intonation. -Highlight how to review or describe something you have heard, watched or read using prompts. -Highlight how to give your opinion using prompts.
- Ask Ss. to look at exercise 1 again and choose an activity that like to do. -Ask Ss. to use the set of questions and useful language prompts to guide them. -Give Ss. 5 minutes to take notes and prepare what they are going to say in the speaking task. - Tell ss they are going to interview each other. - Divide the class into A and B. -Ask Ss. to start expressing their ideas freely. -Monitor the ss. while their speaking. -Assign 5 minutes for the first round. -Stop the activity and ask ss to swap roles. -Assign 5 minutes for the second round.
- Stop the activity and ask the whole class this question ‘Do both of you agree on the same activity?’. Listen to their answers for a minute. -Write two good examples of their language on the board; praise them. -Write 2 or 3 (maybe more if time allows) faulty sentences on the board. Elicit and correct their errors.