Joseph Scott, TP 7.
Elementary. level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency discussing transportation using the present simple and present continuous tenses.
Subsidiary Aims
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To review and practice using vocabulary covered in the previous lessons of the day and read for gist and detail to discuss a text.
Procedure (32-45 minutes)
The TL from the previous lessons will be elicited from the Ss using visual aids of means of transport and the correct grammatical forms of describing travelling by them. E.g. "going by train/on foot." A sample sentence will be presented on the WB of, "I did get to ITI by Metro, but recently I've been going by bus." with CCQs to ensure that Ss have the grammatical forms fresh in their minds.
Ss are put in pairs, with each of the pair being given a different text to read on a HO with questions to ask their partner. When they have done so they will turn to their partners and ask and answer questions about what the people in their text are doing, how they normally travel to work, how they have travelled to work when the trains are on strike and what they think of the strike itself. This task will get Ss asking and answering the kind of questions expected in the rest of the lesson.
T will elicit from Ss the information from their partner's texts and what questions they can ask to get the best information out of their partner and ensure they are being formed correctly. The correct adverbs of frequency will also be covered by CCQs in order to ask how often people travel in certain ways. E.g. What word would we use to say how often Yusuf cycles to work? Usually. Does Maggie often give more that 40 parking tickets in a day? No. So how would you describe it when she gives more? Rarely.
Each S write four names of friends/family members on a piece of paper and hands it to their partner. They ask questions such as, "who is (name)? What do they do? What do they like to do in their spare time? What do you think they are doing now?" T will monitor, answering any queries and helping Ss who may struggle with the task.
Questions will be put on the WB asking: How do you normally travel around Istanbul? What do you normally do on your days off? What did you do on May 1st? How did you travel on May 1st? Ss will mingle and ask each other the questions noting down any interesting answers and getting as much STT as possible. T will monitor, listening for consistent errors to be corrected on WB at the end of the lesson.