Work-Life Balance- 2nd Lesson
A1 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist listening practice using a text about Work-life balance in the context of the place of jobs in our lives.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in daily life in the context of the place of jobs in our lives.
Procedure (38-57 minutes)
Teacher presents visuals of new words randomly and writes their names on the board. Students are asked to match them and say their names. (correction of pronunciation if needed)
Joseph, Tom and Maria are fictional characters, which have different daily cycles from one another. Teacher presents them, tells a little bit about their attributes and demonstrations a conversation of those three characters, then splits students into 3-member groups and asks them to make conversations alike.
The students are to listen a Tapescript that teacher plays. There will be no written exercises, however, teacher may demonstrate a possible discussion on the related topic. If the students seem lost, tapescript will be played again, and the teacher pairs/groups the students for them to have a similar discussion themselves. Teacher monitors.
1 student, a volunteer is asked to join the teacher for the demo. Teacher demonstrates a conversation based on determining whether a a person is workaholic or not. Teacher then pairs the students, asks them to have a similar conversation, and starts monitoring.
Teacher maintains the student pairs and gives them some time to write about their partner. (age, job, likes, responsibilities, etc.) If pairs forget some things about each other, they are allowed to ask one another. If there will be extra time, then the pairs could be changed and the exercise could be repeated.