Shahab Raeisi Shahab Raeisi

Evenings and Weekends
Elementary level

Description

In this lesson students learn about some specific phrases they need to communicate while talking about their free time activities. The class starts with a discussion about free time activities. Then students learn some new words and phrases and their collocations. They practice using those phrases by some controlled practices. Finally students engage in a semi-controlled practices or a freer activity in order to activate the language of the target lesson.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist, specific information and detailed listening tasks on free time activities

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide review, practice and clarification of the vocabularies used in free time activities

Procedure

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

Teacher greets the class and since it's the beginning of the week ask them what they did at the weekend.

Pre-Reading/Listening (5-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible

Teacher puts the students in pairs and asks them to sit with a new partner. Teacher tells students about his favorite routine free time activities and elicits some ideas from the class and drills some and boards them. Then students are given a handout. They should write appropriate words in each gap. They check the answers with a partner. Finally the answer key is put on the projector and students work in pairs then in groups to talk about their favorite free time activities. 1 I go for out with friends on Saturdays. What about you?

While-Reading/Listening #1 (8-15 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist and specific information reading/listening tasks

a. Students are given handouts, or the picture is put on the projector, hat shows two people at an office party. Teacher asks if students could guess where the people are and if they are friends or not to elicit "they are at a party, office party, they're friends" b. Teacher tells the class that they are going to listen to five questions that Robert asks Tanya at the office party. They should listen and fill the gaps in five questions. ICQ: 1. How many questions are there? 2. Who asks the questions, Robert or Tanya? students listen to the questions and complete the questions then check their answers with a partner. Teacher provides the answers. Students are told to listen again to the conversation and notice to the pronunciation of "do" in the five questions. c. Students are given instructions to read five sentences about Tanya and Robert, listen and write T/F. ICQ 1. First are you going to read or listen? 2. Are you going to listen and write the answers or write T/F Students are given the handouts and they read the sentences for one minute. Then they listen and check with their partners. Teacher elicits the corrects answer from the various students.

While-Reading/Listening #2 (5-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed, deduction and inference reading/listening tasks

Students are given a demo on how to listen and match Roberts's questions to Tanya's answer on the board. Teacher models the activity and gives the class some handouts. Students listen and match the questions individually and the check the answers with their partners. Teacher finally provides the answers. Semi-controlled Teacher asks the class to ask and answer the question in exercise three with a partner.

Post-Reading/Listening (8-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to respond to the text and expand on what they've learned

Students use the vocabularies they learned at the beginning of the class to make small conversation with a partner then other classmates mingling with each other

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