Functional Language
Upper Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency and accuracy in conversations conveying surprise or the lack thereof.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide gist when hearing conversations about surprise.
Procedure (36-50 minutes)
They will see a picture of a husband and wife seated at the kitchen table having a discussion. They will be given 3 minutes to discuss what they believe is being said.
During this stage, they will match a phrase to a sentence individually, then as pairs, and justify their choice in the group.
In this lesson, the students will practice what they have learned by marking through an inappropriate response to a sentence. They will then have to justify their answer.
The students will listen to an audio of a conversation using terminology for surprise and lack of surprise. They will listen for tone, pitch, and hear demeanor in the voices of the actors. There will be a follow up practice for them to mark off what they heard in the conversation.
We will discuss form, pronunciation, and some idioms.
Students will answer questions based on the audio, individually and then in pairs.
During this part of the lesson, they will discuss a time they were surprised without using the word surprised.