New lesson plan: Advice and Suggestions

Murat Turk

Advice and Suggestions - Pre-intermediate level

Advice and Suggestions
Pre-intermediate level

Description

In this lesson students will provide clarification and review of language used for giving advice and suggestions in the context of road rage.

Materials

HO, WB, PC

Main Aims

To provide clarification of language used for giving advice and suggestions in the context of road rage

Subsidiary Aims

To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a functional language in the context of giving advice and suggestions

Procedure (36-46 minutes)

Warmer/Lead-in (3-5 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

* Short story about a problem - I need to buy a car...should I buy a car in Istanbul?. * The Ss will come up with some solutions to my problem.

Exposure (6-8 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

* The students will view a series of road rage images of (Courtesy of Google Images) * Talk about road rage and some solutions to road rage in Istanbul. * Posible reasons like traffic, lousy drivers, traffic, parking...and did I mention traffic?

Useful Language (10-12 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

* Controlled activity 1 * The Ss will listen to recording 84. * Ss will complete sections 1 (pick the correct two answers) and 2 (match the advice/suggestions with the verb and noun) from the 'advice & suggestions' from Inside Out (p.115)

Productive Task(s) (13-15 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

* Semi-controlled activity 2. * Form the students into two groups of 4-5 (depending on the number). * Hand out bits of paper with 'problems' and 'advice/suggestions' to each student. * The student with the problem will vocalise their 'problem' and seek a piece of advice or a suggestion from the other Ss, who will offer advice or suggestion by using the modals written on their piece of paper.

Feedback and Error Correction (4-6 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

* Ss will come up with their 'problems' and 'advice/suggestions' * FB with WC