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Copy of Grammar Lesson
Upper-Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will learn and practice how to speculate about past, present and future. They will also improve some reading skills (gist) with the help of a paragraph about a hospital but they will mainly focus on grammar.

Materials

Abc Handout (photocopy)
Abc Pictures of sicknesses, diseases and injuries
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Abc Handout (photocopy)
Abc Handout (photocopy)
Abc Handout (photocopy)

Main Aims

  • To provide clarification, review and practice of speculation about past present and future using modals in the context of illnesses, sicknesses and diseases.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist reading practice using a text about people with health problems in the context of diseases.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

- Linking with Murat's lesson, set context with these questions; "What happens if I drink very water when I am sweaty?" "What happens if I don't stop smoking?" "What happens if I don't eat breakfast everyday?"

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

- Give them the instructions to do exercise 1 in the handout to get them engaged in and focused on TL - Peer check the answers

Teach (15-20 minutes) • To clarify areas of the target language where students had difficulty in the first test stage

- Clarify the target language (see the language analysis sheet)

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

- Get the students' focus back on the handout and get them to do the second exercise to help them see that they are better after the language clarification - Give feedback for correction or answers

Free practice (13-15 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

- Put them in groups to talk about different people's health problems - Tell them to explain other people in the group what must / may / might / could / can't have happened to the people in the photos

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