LP5 - Luis Jasso
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To introduce and provide practice of speaking for fluency in the context of describing someone you admire
Subsidiary Aims
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To allow students to practice their listening for gist and specific details in the context of talking about people you admire.
Procedure (36-46 minutes)
Show students the pictures of 3 famous people and ask them whether they know them and why they are so famous, and also why some people might admire them.
Tell students we will now hear a listening about a woman talking about the person she admires the most. Let students know that for the first listen, they must only try and listen for who the person she admires is. Play the recording, then nominate students to provide the answer. (Her dad). Then, tell students we will listen to the audio again, and this time they are to answer some questions in a Google Forms sheet. Share the google forms sheet with the students and allow them to read through the questions, then play the audio. Afterwards, send students to breakout rooms for 2 minutes to compare their answers before coming back to the main room for feedback where the correct answers will be provided.
Next, let students know we will focus on some phrases that will be useful for the upcoming speaking task. First, share Form exercise with students, let them know that they have to match each phrase with their definition. Students will find a Jamboard slide with the phrases on sticky notes, and the definitions in a list. They should move the sticky notes next to the definition for each phrase. They will do this in pairs in breakout rooms, then the correct answers will be provided. Next, Let students know we will focus on the form of the phrases. Direct them to the google Jamboard slide with the exercise, let them know that now the main verb of the phrase is missing, and they have to drag each verb to the correct blank. Have students do this in pairs in breakout rooms(3 minutes) and then provide correct answers. Lastly, highlight important pronunciation for the phrases that students might have been saying wrong and drill the correct pronunciation with them.
Let students know they will now prepare a speech like the one they just heard. Show them a collage of pictures of famous people they might know and tell them they can use them for inspiration, or come up with their own. Nominate students so they say who they will talk about, to incentivize them to think of a person quite quickly. Then, tell them to prepare a 90-120 second talk about them. Tell them to make sure to use the phrases we just worked with. After 1or 2 minutes tops, send students to breakout rooms to give their talk about their admired person. After they have both spoken, have them switch breakout rooms so they can give their talk to another partner. Afterwards, have students return to the main room for feedback and error correction.
Highlight important errors students have made throughout the class and provide corrections/feedback. Also highlight some good use of language to build confidence on students.