New lesson plan: What´s the matter?

Laura Perez

What´s the matter? - Intermediate level

What´s the matter?
Intermediate level

Description

In this lesson, students will learn and practice different expressions to show concern, give and respond to advice by watching a video where two friends are talking about their worries, and answering True or False for some statements. At the end of the lesson, students are expected to discuss some difficulties and provide suggestions.

Materials

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Main Aims

To introduce and practice functional language for showing, giving and responding to advice.

Subsidiary Aims

To practice speaking for some real life situations.
To identify tone, body language, facial expressions when asking or giving advice.
To learn some useful expressions to show, give and respond to advice.

Procedure (34-40 minutes)

Lead-in (3-4 minutes) • To set lesson context, activate some background knowledge, and engage students.

The class will start by discussing the following questions: 1 What types of problem do people often ask for advice about? 2 Who was the last person you asked for advice? What did you ask them about? Did their advice help you? 3 When did you last give someone advice? What was it about? Did he/she take your advice? Why? /Why not?

Exposure (7-8 minutes) • To provide listening practice for gist. To provide context for the target language through a situation

After the discussion, a video will be shown. They students will be able to recognize tone, body language and facial expression when asking and giving advice. As they watch the video, the students will complete some sentences. Also, some ICQ´s will be asked to check students understand the instructions.

Clarification (12-15 minutes) • To clarify the meaning, form and pronunciation of the target language

During this stage, the teacher will guide the students through questions to understand meaning, form and pronunciation. MEANING: the teacher will show the following sentences: I'm sorry to hear that. Have you tried talking to him about it? Yes, you could be right. FCQ´s Does the word "sorry" expresses concern? Does the question show that is providing advice? Does the last sentence show an answer to an advice? FORM: the teacher will show three columns with sentences that show concern, give and respond to advice. The structure and register will be analyzed. PRONUNCIATION: finally, the teacher will show some sentences with the stress marked for students to repeat .

Controlled Practice (4-4 minutes) • To concept check and prepare students for more meaningful practice

After, the students will be requested to answer True or False to some statements. This activity will be developed individually and then students will compare and share their answers.

Free Practice (8-9 minutes) • To provide students with free practice of the target language

To finish the lesson, the teacher will encourage the students to pair up and discuss the real-life situations shown in a WordWall activity. One of the students will assume the role of giving advice and the other answering to it. Then, they will switch.