Teaching Practice 5
Pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of the future of things
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist listening practice using a text in the context of future
Procedure (32-44 minutes)
T posts the photos of Mars on WB and asks questions about pictures: Where is this place? (Mars) T asks Ss to discuss the questions below for 2 mins with their partners. "Do you think that there might be life on Mars? What kind of creatures may live there? Will people travel to Mars in the near future? " While Ss discuss these questions among themselves, T monitors them, notes down two sentences including may/might/will and write them on WB. After T writes them on board, she underlines the structure and elicits prediction.
T hands out Exercise 1 and ask Ss to complete the sentences by using may, might or will. T does the first one with Ss and then asks them to work in pairs. After peer check, T shows the answers on WB and asks if any S has different answers.
In order to prepare Ss for the listening, T introduces a topic from the list given in listening. T shows three different pictures reflecting past, present and future situation of education at schools and asks about the differences between the pictures. (What has changed up till now and how will it be in the future?) In pairs, Ss discuss the topic for 2 mins and T elicits answers.
T gives the Ss a list of topics that will be used in listening. In pairs, Ss think which of the topics they think speakers will talk about in the listening? T monitors SS attentively.
Ss listen to the speakers and while listening, match the topics with the speakers. Ss check their answers in pairs. WCF (If needed, T can play the recording a second time)
T writes a few sentences on WB from listening and controlled practice: "The weather may/might change in the next fifty years." "There'll more bars and cafes, so people will use their cars" "International organisations may/might not become more powerful." "I guess in the future we'll find cures for more and more things." "Computers... they'll just be a part of our lives." Quick CCQs: Are they about past, present or future? (Future) Are they plans or predictions? (Predictions) Which sentences are used for the things that we are sure? (The ones with will) Which sentences are used for the things that we are less sure? (The ones with may/might) T may drill "weather" and "cure" here and show the contractions in positive sentences.
In pairs, Ss will choose a topic from the list and talk about it by using prediction verbs. Here, they can use their notes. T monitors and guide Ss if necessary. Meanwhile take down some notes to have delayed error correction on WB. T write some correct and incorrect sentences on WB and gets whole class correction. If time left, Ss can go on the activity by changing the partners. T asks them to go and find 3 people's ideas about the topics. This time they don't use their notes, just use a piece of paper to take down notes. At the end of the activity, T asks Ss which idea they like most and why.