Numbers and Ages
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification, review and practice of numbers in the context of talking about people's ages.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide specific information about the spelling, pronounciation and stress of the vocabulary words.
Procedure (38-51 minutes)
- Write "How old are you? I am ___ years old." on WB - Demonstrate by asking a S. Then make Ss stand up and ask each other their age.
- Give instructions: "Don't open paper. Listen and repeat." -ICQ: "Do you open the paper?" -Give HO(1+2) -Play R2.15 -Point out irregular spelling of 'thirteen' and 'fifteen' on WB -Give instructions for same HO: "Open your paper. Match. Work with your partner." - Check by listing the numbers on the WB, and let Ss fill out answer key themselves. - Give instructions: "Listen and repeat." - Play R2.16
- Write down [fourteen forty sixteen sixty eighteen eighty] with their stresses on the WB - Tell Ss to "Listen." Play R2.17 - Point out that we stress the "teen" in numbers 13-19, and the "first syllable" in the rest. - Write the following on the WB and let students come up and place the stress. [seventeen ninety fifty thirteen nineteen seventy fifteen ] - Tell students to, "Listen and check." Play R2.18
- Tell students to, "Listen and repeat." - Play R2.17 and R2.18 again.
-Write on WB: [23 twenty-three 24 twenty-four] and point out hyphen usage - Give instructions: "Work alone; no partners. Write the numbers." - Give HO (5) - Ss check with partner - List numbers 23-29 on WB, and let students fill in answer key - Point out that we stress the second syllable by writing the stresses on the numbers - Write these numbers on the WB: [27 35 49 52 68 73 86 94] - Have each S say each number.
- Tell students to "Turn paper around. Write 4 numbers." - Demonstrate instructions with a pair of Ss. Tell one to "Read your numbers" and the other to "Write his/her numbers" - Pair Ss with different partner to complete activity and check together.
- Give instructions: "Don't open. Match words to numbers. Work with your partner." -ICQ: "Do we open the paper?" - Give (folded) HO (7a/7b) -Write numbers 1-5 on WB while students work - Check by letting students fill in answer key on WB - Drill vocabulary words (1 through 5)
- Instructions: "Open the paper (HO7a/7b). Listen and fill in gaps." - Play R2.19. Repeat if necessary. - Check in pairs. - Write 1-5 on WB and let Ss fill in answer key
- Give instructions: "Fill gaps with words. Work with your partner." - Give HO (8a) - While Ss are working, write the speech bubbles and sentences on WB - Instructions: "Listen and check". Play R2.20 - To check, Ss fill in answer key (speech bubbles) on WB - Instructions: "Listen and repeat." Play R2.20 again
- Show picture on previous HO(7a/7b) - Demonstrate by asking Ss, "How old is the girl (in the picture)?" - Put Ss into different pairs and let them ask each other questions.
- While Ss are asking each other questions, write "Group 1" and "Group 2" on WB, and list ages [45, 76, 70, 65, 46, 43, 38, 41, 37, 1, 8, 72, 6, 3 ] under each group name - Tell students to "Match the ages (point to WB and HO (10)) to the names (point to picture). Then write answers on WB. Whoever finishes first, wins." - Divide students into 2 groups, then pass out HO (10).