People and places
Beginners level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide practice of adjectives in the context of people and places
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide detailed reading practice using a text about e-mail in the context of travel
Procedure (31-47 minutes)
I will briefly lead students through a review of colors as a way of introducing them to opposites. Using a color wheel on the powerpoint, I will point to red and ask "What color is this?" I will then point to green and ask "What color is this?" I will then connect them with a line. I will then say "These are opposites." I will repeat this for yellow and blue.
Using the pictures in each slide, I will elicit the adjectives from the students. As the students determine the adjective, we will drill pronunciation. I will switch back and forth between WC drilling and individual drilling. Only after we have drilled the pronunciation will I reveal the written words (with their phonetic spellings). We will do this for each set of opposites.
Circle drill. The students will come to the front of the room and stand in a circle. I will then demo the drill by tossing a small ball to another student and saying "hot!" When they catch it, I will elicit "cold" from them. I will then instruct the same student to toss the ball and say a different adjective, with the receiving student answering.
1) Using the examples from Face2Face, students will come to the board and complete the sentences. As they complete each example, I will emphasize the position of the adjective and drill the pronunciation (of the sentence). *I will also emphasize that adjectives are not plural with plural nouns. 2) I will try to elicit from students the word "very" using images contrasting different degrees of the same adjective. Once successful, we will drill pronunciation. I will then give a couple verbal examples.
Students will complete exercise 3 on page 22 of Face2Face. I will instruct students to complete the activity individually, and then check in pairs. Once they have finished, we will read through the answers as a class, checking for pronunciation.
In pairs, students will practice talking about two different hotels. This will help prime students for the reading activity. I will present images of two different hotels, including words that may be new to students. Students will then talk in pairs, using the previously learned adjectives to describe the hotels. After a few minutes of practice, I will ask students to repeat for the class their examples. It may be simpler to ask students to describe one hotel at a time (e.g. describe hotel #1 with your partner, review as class, do the same with #2).
1) The previous exercise acts as the lead-in/vocab pre-teach 2) Students will be given the question "Where are Sally and Dan?" Students will then have two minutes to read the passage and discuss the answer with their partner. 3) I will explain to students that now they will reread the passage and answer more specific questions. I will then hand out page 23 of Face2Face. 4) As students finish, they will check their answers with their partner. 5) Once everyone has finished, we will review the answers as a class, correcting for pronunciation.