TP 4 Conversation about family-age-job
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To enable students to develop their speaking skills in terms of fluency and accuracy in the context of asking and answering questions about family, age and job.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide review of family lexis in the context of completing a family tree.
Procedure (40-45 minutes)
Post the photos of family members on the board. Ask who they are. Elicit one or two answers and then give students HOs and tell them to complete the gaps with the family lexis. eg. Mert is Melike's brother. Then let them do peer check. Then post the answers on the board.
Post a part of the family tree on the board and ask students what to ask to get the answers e.g. writer, 64) What is Barry's job? How old is he? Then give them HOs and tell them to work in pairs to create more questions.
Post the questions from previous stage on the board. Highlight the intonation and sentence stress. Model and drill the sentences with WC, if necessary with individuals.
Put students in pairs and tell them they are going to ask and answer questions in order to get the answers which are incomplete in their papers. Do a demo. Give the HOs out as A and B. Monitor students.
While monitoring pairs, write the language that students are using on the board. Praise the good language and get the correct answers of the incorrect language.