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Valentine's Day
Pre-Intermediate level

Description

The topic of the lesson is adapted from pre- intermediate " True To Life " book, unit 12 and pages 76\ 77. It is a book for adult English learners by Ruth Gairs and Stuart Redman from Cambridge University which first published in 1995 and it printed in Great British. The lesson will start with the lead in which is matching the pictures of things related to the Valentine's Day with their names. Then for the pre-listening, the students will be shown pictures about romantic things that might happen or would like to happen to them. They will discuss which one they like most and why they like it. After that, students will listen for a gist to my Valentine's Day song by Paul McCartney. Then they will listen for specific information which is to write the missing words in the song. Next, students underline the rhyming words. Later, the students will be given Valentine's Day messages and ask them to try to use rhyming words from their own.

Materials

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Bu9e1noqrt6sizdijlem ec pronunciation rhyming words pi with key EC_pronunciation-rhyming-words-PI_with-KEY.pdf
Sh8fzkvgqsu0qy97evat faapccf11hs My Valentine's Day song
Wozf0lgfsdaxcod7agge my valentine's day lyrics My Valentine's Day Lyrics.docx
Rm1rga5q4gbel4dch0ch ebtisam Love messages
Nfg5rwtgrxcgvaicz6rk valentine’s day presentation Valentine’s Day presentation.pptx

Main Aims

  • At the end of the lesson, students will be better able to use the rhyming words effectively in the context of love messages about Valentine's Day.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide gist and specific information listening in the context of love song about Valentine's day.

Procedure

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

1- Teacher will ask students about how their Valentine's Day was. 2- Teacher will ask students about things remind them of Valentine's Day. 3- Teacher will divide the students into four groups. 4- Teacher will teach some new vocabulary in the lead in activity that may the students do not know. 5- Teacher will give the students a handout matching activity of things related to Valentine's Day. 6- Students will match pictures of things related to Valentine's Day with their names. For example, Students will match the word " Balloons" with a picture of balloons. 7- Students will check their answers on the PowerPoint slide.

Pre-Listening (4-4 minutes) • To prepare students for the song and make it accessible

1- Teacher will ask the students to watch the video of the song without the sound. 2- Students will watch the movements of the woman's lips and try to write the words that she is saying. Teacher may give example herself to more clarification. 3- Teacher will ask students to check their answers in pairs about the words that they have written. 4- Teacher will listen to the students' guessing.

While-Listening #1 (3-3 minutes) • To provide students with challenging gist listening task

1-Teacher will ask the students to listen to My Valentine's Day song and guess what is the song is about. 2- Teacher will check the students' understanding of the instruction by ICQs. 3- Teacher will ask students about their guessing.

While-Listening #2 (6-6 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed and listening for specific information task

1- Teacher will give the students a handout with the lyrics of the song of My Valentine's Day with some gaps. 2- Students will read the lyrics. 3- Students will listen and try to complete the lyrics by the words from the box. 4- Teacher will ask the students ICQs to check their understanding of the activity. 5- Students will check their answers in pairs. 6- Teacher may play the record more than one time if the students ask for that. 7 Teacher will provide the answers by using the data show.

Post-Listening (6-6 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to talk about the Valentine's Day and use the new vocabulary and rhyming words in the lesson

1- Teacher will show the students pictures by PowerPoint by the data show about romantic things that might be happened to them or they would like them to happen. 2- Teacher will ask the students in pairs to choose the best picture for them and discuss why they have chosen it. 3- Teacher will ask students to tell other pair about their choice.

Controlled Activity 1 (5-5 minutes) • for students to point out the rhyming words

1- Teacher will ask students to underline the rhyming words in the lyrics of the song. 2- Teacher will give the students example to help them. 3- Teacher will show the rhyming words on the PowerPoint. 4- Teacher will show the phonetic transcription script to the students to more clarification of the rhyming words. 5- Teacher will do a choral drilling of the rhyming words.

Controlled Activity 2 (5-5 minutes) • For students to practice more the rhyming words.

1- Teacher will give the students some rhyming words. 2- Teacher will ask students to match the rhyming words together by sticking them next to each other. 3- Teacher will ask students to check their answer on the PowerPoint.

Semi Controlled Activity (9-9 minutes) • For students to practice the rhyming words in less controlled activity.

1- Teacher will give the students love messages. 2- Teacher will ask the students try to complete the love messages with rhyming words. 3- students may use the rhyming words from the previous activities to help them if they find any difficulties to complete the messages by themselves. 4- Teacher will listen to the students' words that they have used.

Freer Activity (Homework) (2-2 minutes) • For students to practice the rhyming words in freer activity

1- Teacher will give the students some words and ask them to find five rhyming words for each one. 2- Teacher will give the students example for more clarification. 3- Teacher will ask students to do this as a homework.

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