Writing lesson
A1-A2 level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide product writing practice of a description of their daily life
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide scan and detailed reading practice using a text about an average morning
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
T tells Ss that they'll be doing a writing lesson today T shares screen and opens PowerPoint T asks Ss what kinds of things they do in the mornings and gets a few answers from Ss
T shares link to Google Forms and briefly demos how to do the task. T gives 5 minutes to do activity. After 5 minutes, T shares screen and goes over the answers with Ss
T shares screen with Ss and goes to PowerPoint. T asks whole class to analyze the example morning and find all of the simple past tense verbs as a Guided Discovery task. This is to be done together. T edits a PowerPoint slide to reflect the rules that students discover as it happens. T gives grammar rules to Ss as needed (in case they're not understanding).
T tells Ss that they have a writing task to do on Jamboard. T shares screen and opens Checklist, reviews rules of checklist. T opens JamBoard and shows students how to open a textbox on Jamboard. T assigns each student a number on Jamboard. T shares Jamboard link to chat. T shares Checklist link to chat.
T assigns breakout rooms with 2 students in each breakout room; students judge each other based on the checklist