Agreeing and Disagreeing
Upper Intermediate level
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide clarification and practice of language used for agreeing and disagreeing politely
Subsidiary Aims
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To practice speaking and listening skills when agreeing or disagreeing in a situation.
Procedure (38-24 minutes)
*Teacher will sharescreen in Google Slides, where there are 2 pictures of people and 3 questions: 1.-What can you see in the pictures? 2.-Do you think that they are getting to an agreement? or 3.-Having a discussion? *We will have an open class discussion.
GIST: *T. will share ss a link to Google Jamboard, there are 3 different sentences. *T. will play an audio and ss should select a name (Colin, Val or Amanda) according to who said that. (Individual work) (3 minutes) *Check answers with the whole class and have the audioscript so Ss can justify answers. ICQ: Are you going to write or select the name? (Select the name) Are you working individually or in pairs? (Individually) INTENSIVE LISTENING: *T. will share students a link to Google Jamboard and devide the group into 2 - 3 teams depending how many students are there. *T. must assign each team a slide *T. replay the audio and ss are going to tick to the expression they hear (3 minutes) *T check answers with the audio script. ICQ: How many minutes you have for this activity? (3 minutes) *Ss should categorize the expressions according if they AGREE or DISAGREE *Ss are going to work on the same teams they worked before (3 minutes) *T. will check answers ICQ: What are you going to do? (Categorize the expressions AGREEING and DISAGREEING)
*Meaning and Form *T. will screenshare Google slides with 4 examples and nexw to the sentences some verbs that can also be used to give the same meaning to those sentences. 1.- I can't see the point of forcing kids to eat. 2.- I suppose that's true, actually. 3.- Well, I can't argue with that. 4.- I see what you mean. *Ss should help the teacher to match the meaning of those sentences CCQS: 1.- Is the person expressing disbelief about the action? (Yes) 2.- Do you believe what was said is correct? (Yes, they are agreeing) 3.- Is there room for debate or discussion in this expression? (Yes, the person is disagreeing) 4.- Are you agreeing with the other person's point of view? (Yes) *Pronunciation: (Focus on content words) *T. will screenshare a slide with the same sentences seen before, read it and ask ss where they listen to the stress of the word. *Explain that nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are usually stressed on sentences.
*T. will share SS a link to Wordwall. *Ss should complete the sentences with the correct expression, to provide controlled practice of the target language. (Individual work) (3 minutes) *Check answers in OCFB.
*T. will share the link to Google Jamboard Again and devide the group into teams/pairs (depending how many students are there). *She will assign each team a slide with a statement on it, and they should discuss about it, using the language seen before. *After they discussed, we´ll have OCFB.