New lesson plan: Teaching Practice 6

MOHAMMAD AL-KURDI

Teaching Practice 6 - Pre-intermediate level

Teaching Practice 6
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, the students will learn how to talk about cars. They will start describing their dream cars in a controlled activity. Then, they will be introduced the the use of "used to" to talk about the past. At the end, they will compare their past activities/ life and their present ones in a controlled activity.

Materials

Put in the correct column

Tell about your dream car

Using "used to"

Put in the correct column

Tell about your dream car

Using "used to"

Main Aims

To provide accuracy speaking practice in a conversation in the context of personal life

Subsidiary Aims

To provide practice of "used to" in the context of describing activities in the past

Procedure (38-45 minutes)

Lead-in (4-5 minutes) • To provide students with vocaboulary to use in the following activity

The students will have vocabulary concerned with the features of cars to divide them into two columns, "important" and "not important" on the WB. They will have pieces of paper and they stick them on the WB. After they finish, the teacher hides the words and drills them with eliciting the meanings. Feedback: T-WC feedback. The teacher will discuss the students' division of the vocabulary, it varies.

Speaking for fluency (8-10 minutes) • To provide the sts with sufficent prompts that help them practice speaking

The teacher will hand the students page 113 sheet. The students will practice the "Anecdote" part. In pairs, they will talk about their dream cars and will have the statements in the exercise to help them. Feedback: the students can retell the same thing in groups of four if applicable. The teacher monitors.

Grammar (13-15 minutes) • To introduce "used to" to sts in a guided discovery exercise

-The teacher will elicit a "used to" sentence like "I used to dive to school everyday." Then, he drills the pronunciation paying attention to the short form of "to" in "used to", then he elicits some examples from the students like: 1. We used to dive out of town early. 2. One weekend, we went to Paris. 3. I used to have a love relationship with my car. Then, the sts work on guided discovery to figure out the rule: 1. Subject + used to + ……… to talk about a ………. action in the past. 2. Subject + ………. To talk about a single action in the past. 3. Subject + used to + ……… to talk about a state in the past. Feedback: T checks the answers as WC. Then T introduces the negative and interrogative form of the structure: "I didn't use to; did you use to?" -The students, individually, work on exercise 2 to apply the concepts above on the sentences a-f. Feedback: sts check answers in pairs, T monitors and correct any mistakes. -After they finish, they change the sentences to make them true for them. Feedback: T listens to some of the sts' sentences.

Speaking (13-15 minutes) • To provide students with a controlled activity to compare past with present habits/ states

In exercise 4, the students will use the phrases in the box and the grammatical structure of "used to" to compare their life now with their life ten years ago. They work in groups to do so, and they can add more ideas to the phrases listed. Feedback: T monitors and corrects mistakes as WC.