TP 6b At the Corner Shop, Speaking
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in the context of shopping.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a text about customer/shop assistant conversation in the context of shopping.
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To provide review, practice and clarification of shop item lexis in the context of shopping.
Procedure (41-50 minutes)
T shows a photo on w/b from a cornershop/newsagent and will elicit from the Ss words for different items in the photo.
Teacher will give to Ss "At the Corner Shop" worksheet and ask them to do Ex. 1 (match the words to pictures) individually. Check in pairs. Answer key on the w/b with the pictures. Drilling of the words. Ss are going to continue with the listening exercises 2 A & B on the worksheet. T will pre-teach words/expressions "change, receipt, here you are and anything else". Repeated listen for 2A if necessary. T will give the tape script for error correction. Feedback: "Which things do Alex and Martina buy?"
Ss are going to learn real-world shopping language through filling a gap-fill (ex. 3 on worksheet), listen to check, repeated listening and drilling the sentences with focus on stress and tone. After learning the basics of pronouncing useful language for saying what you want and asking about prices, Ss are going to read the tapescript in pairs. Last controlled speaking activity is "Disappearing dialogue". T will write (during previous stage) a short example dialogue on the w/b, drill it adding one sentence by every repeating and at the same time erasing words from previously repeated sentences. This will help the Ss to memorize basic shopping language for the next, productive task.
Corner Shops -simulation: T will nominate 4 shopkeepers and they are going to set up shops in different sides of the classroom. Shopkeepers have itinerary lists with prices and they have realia (maps, pens, tissues, lighters, concert tickets, water bottles, batteries, envelopes and stamps), which they're going to sell to the customers (rest of the Ss). The customers are put in to 4 different groups with 4 different shopping lists. Aim is to get the Ss moving from shop to shop and to simulate real shopping situations using the TL. Teacher will monitor and write down notes for delayed error correction. One who first has all the items in his/her shopping list is the winner. ICQs: – Can you find all the things on your shopping list from one shop? [NO] – Can you say "Tissues." to shopkeeper? [NO] – Why? [WE HAVE TO USE SENTENCES] – Can all of you be talking to a shopkeeper at the same time? [NO, ONE AT A TIME] – What do you write on the shopping list? [PRICES]
Feedback on previous task: "Who has all the things on their list?" "Does anybody have an empty shop now?" "What did you talk about with other customers?" etc. Delayed error correction. If there's some time left Ss can do exercises 4 & 5 on the worksheet in pairs. Otherwise it'll be voluntary homework (answer key is printed in reversed orientation on the worksheet).