You and Yours
Elementary level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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New language - Possesives
Subsidiary Aims
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Vocabulary - Family members ; Speaking about families
Procedure (35-45 minutes)
Greetings and revising the you/your structures that the ss have previously learnt.
- T draws a her own family tree on the WB with extra material pictures & realia. - Eliciting from the ss the tree is completed with the names of then people and the related vocabulary. - Spreading A4 papers to ss t asks the ss to form their own family trees with 10 people maximum; a time limit of 3 minutes is given. -After they are finished tell them to leave it aside for the later moments of the lesson.
-T passes out the HO instructing ss the exercise that they will be doing. - The words in the list are matched under related gender. -The ss work in groups of 3 and check each others' answers.
- SS write sentences about the people in the photos, doing pair work. - CD is used as material for receptive skill 'Listening'. The answers are checked first eliciting from the ss, then from the CD. - Go over the vocabulary to check they understand the meaning using the WB when necessary and check exercise 2 first in pairs, then within the class.
-The ss pick up their own trees , and T asks them to swap their papers. - Working in pairs, they ask questions related to each other's families.. - SS exchange partners and continue asking others the same questions, giving short answers.
- T asks the whole group if they know any other famous people who are related. T. puts the other pictures around the class as ss do the HO. - SS form groups of colors where they discuss among each other the subject for 2 minutes and write down what they found. - When the time is up, T asks ss from each group how many they were able to find and ends the lesson with praisal on how they worked today.