Animal Tales
Pre-Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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Reading stories and matching their descriptions.
Subsidiary Aims
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Learning the relative clauses who, which, and that.
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
I will prepare a set of 7 sentences for the WB which will come from ex. 1 on page 101 of the SB. One half of the sentences will include a subject while the other half will include a definition. I will have also prepared the words 'who', 'which', and 'that' to place in between the sentence halves. Students will first work in pairs to discover the answers then may come to the WB to match the subjects to their definitions in a way that makes sense.
I would like to use part of this exercise to touch on some vocabulary in the reading. I will explain any of the relationship clauses first if there are questions from the warm up. Other vocabulary words will be explained as they come up throughout the lesson. I will use ex. 5 from page 101 of the SB. Students will be given 8 questions labeled a-h on the WB which are grammatically incorrect. They will have to scratch out the incorrect word and replace it with the correct relative pronoun. I will tack the printed sentences to the WB. Students may work together or independently for 3-4 minutes before coming to the WB to correct the grammar and match column A to the column B definition.
I will put the 6 animal pictures on the WB. First I will ask students to tell me if they know the names of each of the animals. I will give them a HO which contains the text they will need to read. Students should match each of the correct texts with the correct animals. Volunteers can come to the WB and write which story, eg. story 1, on the WB next to the animal's picture.
In groups of 3, each of the students will choose A, B, or C. They students will then read the letter from the text they've chosen. After reading the two stories, I will explain to the students that they will need to match one of the descriptions from ex. 1 to each of the stories. I will give the students several minutes to do this.
Students can use this time to share their stories with the other students in thief groups. They should explain which of the descriptions they have chosen for their stories and why they feel it best describes them. They should also explain which story they liked best and why. In order to get FB I will call on a few students depending on the time and ask them to share out loud.