Teaching Practice 5
Pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To practice free speeking about weird natural phenomenon
Subsidiary Aims
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To practice reading for the gist in the context of a crop circles text
Procedure (38-46 minutes)
The teacher will write "weird" on the WB and ask the students for its meaning then elicit it. Then the students work in small groups to brainstorm for some weird phenomena or things they know.
The teacher shows pictures of soybeans, corn, wheat, hay, and sugarcane and asks: what do we call these? what's the general name? "crops" Then the teacher asks the students: "have you ever thought that crops can be weird?" and elicits some answers and then says that crops form circles and shapes but does not introduce the definition of the "crop circle" yet.
The students will watch a video about "crop circles" and say what's the main idea of it. Feedback: sts check answers with a partner. The teacher elicits the meaning of "crop circles" and hands it to the students in the sheet for the next stage.
The students will read the"Crop Circle Theories" in three minutes to get the main ideas of the text. Feedback: in pairs, they check their predictions of the video they have seen with their partners.
The teacher will hand the students a sheet of true/ false statements. They will correct the false ones. Feedback: students check their answers in pairs and then the teacher gives the answer key and explain any difficult words.
The teacher will write some language structures that will help for speaking like: I think ...... I don't think ...... Maybe it's ..... I've no idea. I haven't a clue. The students will work in groups of three to discuss the following questions: Then, they will work in groups to answer the questions: 1. What's "crop circles"? 2. Who or what do you think made them? 3. How do you think they are made? After they finish, they check their answers with the other groups, A's with A's and B's with B's.