Obligation
B1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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teaching the students how to talk about necessity, obligation, and suggestion
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of travel
Procedure (27-37 minutes)
Greet the students and ask them how they are doing and what they have been doing lately. Use this conversation to talk about your friend Alecs who is visiting Iran and has no clue about our rules, culture, and manners.
Use the context to ask the students to talk about the following questions. What is necessary for him to know/do? What advice do you have for our visitor? Share your opinions with each other. ICQ: talk to me or each other?
Take notes of some of the students’ answers to use for elicitation. Use the examples from the last section to elicit the meaning of obligation/necessity and suggestion. Write the students' answers on the board in an incomplete way and ask the students to help you figure out the form.
Use students' examples to teach the meanings of should, must, have to, have got to, and ought to. After the meanings are clarified ask the following questions: If I say, "You must wear a uniform.", can you wear a t-shirt if you want? If I say, "You must not drink alcohol in Iran.", can you drink alcohol? If I say, "You should try Iranian foods.", can you eat fast food if you want? If I say, "You should shake hands with people.", can you not shake hands if you want? write one example on the word and ask one student to drill it. You must have a passport. ask that student to write another example and ask the next student to drill and so on. Use the examples to write the form
Part 1 of grammar bank 4A page 138
Two students will be touring agents and will talk to the other student who is a tourist who wants to visit Iran. The tourist will ask questions about travelling to Iran. The agents will try to give the tourist some advice to make the trip as enjoyable as possible. Instead of ICQ try to demonstrate with another student Treat the errors after the task.