Laila Sokkar Laila Sokkar

What's your favourite movie?
Intermediate level

Materials

Abc PPT, Cutting Edge

Main Aims

  • Ls will be able to understand and use the following lexical items related to describing types of story (moving, unrealistic, moral, happy ending, slow, complicated, scary, clever, imaginative).

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a role play in the context of describing type of story.

Procedure

Lead-in (5-7 minutes) • To set lesson context (type of story), engage students and get them to wear the English hat.

1-greet students 2-divide them into 2 groups 3-set the instructions of the game: match the pictures from the PPT (more related to our culture than the one in the book) to 1 category 4-play the game and drill along the hard words 5- announce the winning team 6-let each team discuss what they like and dislike from the previous categories. 7-Content feedback

Test #1 (8-10 minutes) • To gauge students' prior knowledge of the target language

1-set instructions to answer Ex 2a (he diagnostic test): which are positive/negative or either? 2-demo? 3-hand them the HO 4-monitor to notice which lexis are the students familiar with and which aren't 5-set the second task: what type of story would fit each statement in the previous exercise (2a)? 6-monitor to notice which lexis are the students familiar with and which aren't 7-Pair check

Teach (8-10 minutes) • To clarify areas of the target language where students had difficulty in the first test stage

1-display the AK 2- ask students about the challenging words they encountered 3-highlight the MPF of the spotted adjectives using CECDW

Test #2 (8-10 minutes) • Check students' use of the target language again and compare with the first test

1-set the instructions for ex 1 page 75 WB: you will find all over the class people describing movies each with 1 missing word , take a paper and write the missing word. 2- pair check, AK

Free practice (6-8 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

1-set the instruction for the speaking activity: we are going to do as the people we read about in the previous exercise 2- In pairs prepare a TV interview describing your fav movie using the words we took 3-2 minutes to prepare 4-speaking time, teacher monitors, elevates their language, takes notes for feedback 5-content and linguistic feedback

Flexi-stage (2-5 minutes) • to use the extra time usefully and allow students to speak further more

1-a guessing game 2-write a name of a movie in your paper 3-describe it to the class 4-your fellows try to guess, the one who gets it right has the chance to describe his movie

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