Nasim Hamidpour Nasim Hamidpour

speaking - Discussion
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students are going to have a discussion about lying and is they would like to have the power to understand if someone is lying to them according to their body language. The lesson will start with the factors that they find the most important in someone's character to choose them as a good friend.

Materials

Abc Board

Main Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of Body Language

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide review of adjectives in the context of a good friend

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (8-10 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Students will be asked: What characteristics should a person have so that you can call them a good friend? The adjectives that the students mention will be written on the board to help everyone recall the words and phrases with their meaning. Then they will be asked about what they would do if they found out their friend had lied to them. Have they ever wanted to have the power to understand if someone is lying to them.

Exposure (14-15 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

A part of a TED Talk video about how reading peoples body language has helped an officer to find a murder who was lying and denying the crime he had done will be played.

Useful Language (8-10 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Phrases related to reading people's body language will be chosen from the video and the meaning will be discussed with whole class.

Productive Task(s) (18-20 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

The students will be asked to discuss the following questions in groups of 3 or 4. 1. Do you think it is good to have the power to read people's body language? 2. Do you want to be trained and gain this power? 3. In what cases will you use it?

Feedback and Error Correction (4-5 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

They have been monitored during the discussion and the whole class will be given some feedback on any misuses of the phrases or grammatical mistakes they may have had.

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