Everyday Conversations
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide speaking practice in a Conversations in the context of How to Introduce,
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist, specific information and detailed listening practice using a text about everyday conversation in the context of saying 'How are you','Fine Thanks', ıntroduction
Procedure (43-53 minutes)
-Listen a video of greetings formal /informal- Speak about the conversations. -Ask the differences among the conversations -Write 'Hi, Billy and Good morning, Mr. John ' on the board and ask which one is formal and informal. -Elicit the words ‘formal and informal’.
-SS will look at the colorful papers on the wall. -Teacher models the sentences and expressions and then drills chorally and individually.
-SS will be asked to look at the pictures and responses on the board. -Match the pictures with correct responses. -Indicate different connatation of each response.
-Choose a student -Ask them to look at the papers on the wall -Decide who is 'A' and 'B' -Eliciting a demo with Student. -SS practicing in pairs in front of the class
-Listen the track 1.15. -pause after each conversation. -ask SS whether the dialogue is formal or informal.
-SS practice as a mingling activity -Monitor the SS -Take some notes of the errors -Provide feedbacks
-Teacher explains the exercise showing the paper to the whole class. -SS listen a track and complete the blanks with the given words in the box. -T distributes the folded handouts and ss do the task -SS compare the answers in pairs. -SS unfold the paper and check their answers.
-Assign pairs with a different completion conversations -SS stand up and act them out -Monitor SS -Take some notes at the time SS are practicing and acting out. -Give feedback
- Divide the class into 4 groups with 3 students. - Explain that SS are going to do a dictation activity in the form of a race. - SS have to memorize and dictate key lines from three short conversations. - Give three dialogues with mixed lines to each group. - Tell that the ordered dialogues are on the walls outside the class. - Choose who is 'A', 'B' and 'C'. - Student A starts by running to the wall, memorizing the first line of Conversation 1 on the wall, running back to their worksheet and dictating the line to Student B and C. - Student B and C do the same. - Continue until SS have glued the correct order of all 3 conversations on their piece of paper. - The first pair to finish all 3 conversations correctly wins.