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TEACHING PRACTICE 3
INTERMEDIATE level

Description

The teaching practice 3 is mainly focusing on listening and the sub aim is speaking. The lesson starts with examining and commenting on three pictures abour dream jobs. Some vacabulary wil be pre-taught before the listening. The teaching of strong adjectives and gradable adjectives start after Ex.3 on page 47. Next comes the practise exercises 3a and exercise cards. The lesson ends with pronounciation exercises.

Materials

Abc HO5 Exercise cards
Abc Pictures
Abc Audio 4.1
Abc Audio 4.2
Abc HO2(Audioscript 4.1)
Abc HO4 (Exercise 3A)
Abc HO1 (2c)
Abc HO6 (4a)
Abc HO3 (Exercise 3)
Abc Realia

Main Aims

  • To provide specific information listening practice using a text about dream job in the context of People telling about their dream jobs, and the difficulties they have faced while doing them

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of dream jobs

Procedure

STAGE 1 (5 minutes) • Warm Up and Lead In

Warm up: Ask the ss if they are all attending university or graduates? Ask them about their dream jobs. O/C Lead In: Stick pictures on board (restaurant critic, winemaker, model) Tell the students to work in pairs and answer the question. What are these jobs? Would you like to do them? Why?/Why not? What is your idea of a dream job?

STAGE 2 (5 minutes) • Teaching vocabulary

Teach below words by ECDW. Fashion (n.): Show the ss a fashion magazine. Let the ss have a look at it. Ask "What are these magazines about?" Meal (n.): What do we eat every day? Three course meal (n.): A meal which consists of a Starter/Soup/Salad, a Main Dish, a Dessert/Pudding Vineyard (n.) and grapes (n.): Show the bottle of wine. What is it made of? What do we call the field that grapes are grown for wine? Photo shoot (n.): show one page from the magazine. Frost (n.): What happens when the temperature is below zero? Elicit where the stress is in each word. Drill. ECDW.

STAGE 3 (10 minutes) • Gist Listening & Listening for details

Gist Listening: 1st listening Remind ss of their predictions from Stage 1. Give ss clear instructions: Listen to people talking about their dream jobs Match the speaker to the photos. (2a) ICQ. (What are we doing? -Matching the speaker to the photos. Play audio 4.1. 2nd listening: Listening for details: 1. Explain HO1(2c). Tell them they will answer the questions by writing Angie (A), Pauline (P), and Monty (M). Play audio 4.1 again. 2. Tell the ss to work in pairs an find the synonyms of the underlined adjectives in HO2(audio script 4.1), and than match them with the adjectives in HO3 (Ex.3). ICQ. (What are you going to look for in the text?-Strong adj.s How will you work? -in pairs) Deliver HO2(audio script 4.1), and HO3 (Ex.3). Pair check.

STAGE 4 (10 minutes) • Teaching the difference between gradable and strong adjectives

Teach: Ask the ss which adjectives have stronger meaning in HO3 (Ex.3) Ex. cold & freezing Ask which adverbs do we use to change the level/degree of gradable adjectives? (very, a bit, quite, a little, slightly, fairly, rather, extremely). Ask which adverbs do we use to strengthen the meaning of strong adjectives? (absolutely, completely, utterly) Really, and Pretty is used for both.

STAGE 5 (5 minutes) • Practise

1. Give clear instructions about the exercise HO4(3a). Work in pairs and replace the underlined words in the sentences with strong adjectives. Deliver HO4 (3a). 2. Ask the ss to match the HO5 (exercise cards). Deliver exercise cards. Work in pairs first. Than check with the other pairs. 3. Ask the ss to complete HO6 (4a). Do a demo with one of the ss for the 1st one. Deliver HO6 (4a).

STAGE 6 (10 minutes) • Pronounciation

1.Tell the ss to listen carefully paying attention to the stress on strong adjectives. ICQ. (What are you paying attention at?) Play 4.2. Stop after each sentence including the strong adjective. Drill chorally and individually. 2. Tell the ss they will practise the conversation (Mark them as A and B). Play again and stop after every dialog. A s ask the question, and B s answer. Than swap roles.

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