TEACHING PRACTISE 1
INTERMEDIATE level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide speaking practice in a story telling in the context of allergic reactions.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide listening practice using a text about telling a story in the context of allergic reactions.
Procedure (45 minutes)
Ask the students how they travel during the day usually? Bus, tube, ship/ferry, etc. Ask the students if they have met with any strange people, or face with any strange events? Stick the realia on the board and elicit what is happening in each picture in groups of 3 by reordering the pictures if they wish.
Pre-teach the words pills, the tube, swollen up, blotches, allergic reaction, spots by showing realia (pictures of words) Pills: Ask what they are using when they get sick? Try to elicit the word. Stick realia. Allergic reaction: Ask if they have ever got a wrong pill and what happened? Try to elicit the word. Stick realia. Spots: Ask what happens when they have allergic reactions? Try to elicit the words swollen up, spots, and blotches also. Show realia. The tube: Ask how they told were travelling during the day? Metro=Tube Stick realia.
Deliver the worksheets and ask the ss to place the sequencers in the right box, and also reorder the pictures on the board while listening to the recording 2.7 O/C F/B. Let them work alone firts. Check. Play the recording 2.7 Play the recording 2.7 again- Ask them to tick the phrases in pairs. T drills phrases by asking questions like Which phrases do we use while telling a story? ex. how do we begin to tell a story? How do you describe what happened? How do you end?
Deliver the worksheets to the ss (p.131) Let them work alone to comlpete fill in the blanks. Check in pairs. Practise dialog. Monitor intonation.
Deliver the cards on which the sequencers are written. Let them work in pairs to re-tell the story to eachother by using each sequencers. Tell them to use all the cards and than turn the card that is used upside down.
Ask the students if that is a real story or a lie. Play recording 2.8 and discuss O/C.