Jesse Karr Jesse Karr

Practice Lesson
Upper Intermediate level

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide gist and detailed listening practice using a text about Living with Parents in the context of Families
  • To provide clarification and practice of unspoiled, aggressive, exhausted, priceless, stubborn, picturesque, accurate, easygoing, breathtaking, automatic, waterproof, overcrowded, thrilled, handmade, desolate, spoiled, deserted, long-lasting in the context of people, places and things

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice in a discussion in the context of families

Procedure

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

Instructions: Discuss what age you left home. Work in pairs. You have 3 minutes. ICQs: What are you going to be discussing? Task: The students will talk in pairs and discuss what time they left home. Pair Check: N/A Feedback: WCFB

Pre-Teaching Vocabulary (10-10 minutes) • To prepare students for the text and make it accessible and to teach and blocking vocabulary.

Convey Meaning: (Siblings) Elicit Word: What do we call our brothers and sisters? N Check Meaning: Is this our parents? Model & CIC Drill: Board Word: Elicit Syllables & Stress: Two syllables, first syllable is stressed Highlight Sounds: /s/ vs. /z/ Elicit Form: Countable Noun Convey Meaning: (Roommate) Elicit Word: What do we call someone we live with, perhaps at university? Check Meaning: Is this someone who lives down the road? N Model & CIC Drilling: Board Word: Elicit Syllables & Stress: Two Syllables, First is Stressed Highlight Sounds: Elicit Form: Countable Noun

Gist Listening (5-5 minutes) • To provide students with less challenging gist listening task to give students a general idea of the text

Instructions: Listen to the text and decide if the children left home at a normal age. ICQs: Are you listening to every word? N. Do you need to listen for the age? Task: Students listen and answer questions. Pair Check: N/A Feedback: WCFB

Listening for Detail (10-10 minutes) • To provide students with more challenging detailed listening tasks

Instructions: Listen to the text again. Answer the questions, true or false. Correct the false questions. ICQ's: Do you need to write long answers? N. What are we going to do to the false questions? Correct them. Task: Students will listen to the text for detail and answer true or false questions, correcting the false answers. Pair Check: N/A Feedback: Nominations

Speaking (10-10 minutes) • To provide with an opportunity to expand on the text and practice fluency.

Instructions: In groups of 3, discuss if the age the children left home was normal. ICQs: Are you writing or speaking? How long do you have to talk? Task: The students will work in groups of 3 and discuss if the children in the text left home at a normal age. Pair Check: N/A Feedback: WCFB

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