Shopping (book and related subjects), Simple past tense
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Learners will be better able to use simple past tense to explain their past experiences in the context of shopping
Subsidiary Aims
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To have more whole-class activities
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To have a student-centered class
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To expand writing activities in order to improve this skill in students
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To strengthen learners' speaking ability through the semi-controlled and free practice provided by the teacher
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To provide a situation in which students can learn and also correct their mistakes, with the help of their classmates, through the pair work and freer practice provided
Procedure (21-31 minutes)
1. Greeting and calling the roles. 2. Bring some books to the class and apologize for being a bit late to the class and explain the reason: The assumption is that the teacher has been to the Tehran International Book Fair and has just arrived with the books she has bought. 3. Elicit the topic (shopping) and engage the students by asking the following Qs: - (Tell students about favorite books) What kind of books do you like? - Do you even like reading book? - What are your favorite books? - How do you usually buy your books? (online/bookstore?) - (Show the books) Where do you think I was last weekend? - (Show a video clip of the Tehran International Book Fair) How about now? Can you guess where I was last weekend?
1. Show some photos from the book fair and elicit the related sentence using simple past tense. Students look at the photos and say what is happening in them. Say that it happened in the past and tell the students the related sentences for the first two photos to provide the model for the students. Ss say related sentences for the rest of the photos using past tense. 2. Work on MPF: Meaning: Show the timeline for simple past tense to make sure that the students have understood the meaning. Ask the following Qs from the whole class to clarify the meaning: - Is this happening now? (No) - When did this happen? Give feedback 4. Pronunciation: Drilling the sentences produced by the Ss. Working on the intonation and stress using hand movements. 5. Form: Show different sentences (affirmative, negative, interrogative) on PowerPoint. Introduce the form of the sentence through a matching task on the board. (Papers including the different parts of a sentence "(Subject, Verb, Object,....)" are attached to walls and Ss put them below the words in each sentence.) Give meaningful and useful feedback
1. Give each pair a worksheet including two Qs on it (Q1: "scrambled sentences" focusing on form, Q2: "fill-in-the-blank" focusing on meaning). Each pair exchanges their handout with another pair and gives feedback to each other. (correct mistakes orally). They have 4 minutes to complete the task. Monitor the Ss, and help if necessary. ICQs: - Are you going to do it in pairs or individually? (Pairs) - How much time do you have? (4 mins) - Are you going to give feedback orally or written? (orally)
1. Students sit in a U-shape to play a game. Some pictures related to shopping are shown on the PowerPoint slides. Each picture is for 4 students. Based on the clues given to them by the teacher (thumbs up, down, ...), they cross a ball to each other in order and make affirmative, negative, a question related to the picture, and the answer to the Q (negative or positive answer). Music is playing during the game, when it stops the person who has the ball loses and goes to the board. ICQs: Ask a professional student to explain the procedure of the game in Persian. 2. Monitor students. Errors will be corrected immediately.
1. Write a sentence on the board. Those students who lost the game should continue the story by saying single sentences using simple past. They have 3 minutes to complete the story. ICQs: Are you going to write anything? (No) Is it just one of you going to tell the whole story? (No) How much time do you have? 3 minutes 2. Take note of students' errors and after the task, write them on the board and correct them with the help of the Ss. (error correction)
1. Write a short paragraph about an interesting and memorable shopping experience they had in the past. ICQs: - Are you going to do it right now? (No) - Are you going to write it or say it in the next session? (Write) - Are you going to write about yourself? (Yes)