Teaching Practice 7
pre-intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide product writing practice of a web page in the context of health and fitness
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide grammar clarification of (should) for advice and (could) for positive possibility in the context of health and fitness
Procedure (42-53 minutes)
Ss will be divided into 2 groups. T will mime dancing and ask student about it. T will award a point to the group that gusses first. Ask a student to come to the front, and to mime or draw on the board the activity he/she see written on the card (there is a picture with the word to help the student who doesn't know the meaning) (cycling, jogging, ice-skating, skateboarding, weit-lifting, walking a dog) T elicits: Are these activities important? Yes Why? to keep us fit T writes on the board " There is no gain without pain" Discuss in pairs feedback with the whole class
Ss will be divided into 4 groups Each group will have a copy of section 1 of the web page Students work in groups to give some informaton about it and who might visit such web sites Feedback with the whole class. 2 more minutes to work in groups, reread the section and give three mentioned advice Feedback with the whole class. Show the Ss the text on Pwerpoint slide elicit the structure of the section from Ss and mark them on the WB: Statement (Show your kids....) Advice ( You should.......) Positive possibility (You could......)
Each group will have one copy of the remaining sections of the cut-up Web page Ss work in groups to read the headers of each section and decide as agroup what each might be about. Feedback with the whole class. Students work in pairs to take two of the sections and think of three pieces of advice to include in each. They discuss their answers with their group Feedback with the whole class.
In the same pairs Ss will write in complete sentences on both sections of the Web page. Ss swap with the other pair in their group, read the new sections and check the advice given. T gives each group a whole copy of the Web page and ask them to combine their sections into one Web page. T asks them in this stage to check for accuracy while writing the final copy.
Ask Ss to redesign their keep fit page so that it appeals to either 5-10 years olds or 15 years-old.