Story writing
Intermediate level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide process writing practice of a story in the context of traveling around on vacations
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice in a conversation in the context of travel around on vacations
Procedure (40-50 minutes)
T engages the Ss by asking them about their favourite holiday places T keeps the context of traveling Ss are asked why they like different places
T tells the students a few things about his memorable vacation T writes three statements on the board Ss are aked to find the one that is true Ss work in pairs to find the answer
T answers the students' questions During the questions answer session T lets the students discover what language they need to use
Task 1: Students talk in pairs in the target language and try to form questions to guide them to the teacher's story. (3 min) Students start coming to the teacher and ask questions one by one while the other partner in the pair takes notes (4 min) Task 2: Based on the information gathered by questions Ss try to figure out the story (3 min) Teacher encourages the students and gives them a few hints to correct their language if needed. Task 3 T gives the students a good news by showing them the advertisement of a story writing competetion Ss are asked to compose a story in groups Teacher focuses on the word compose to talk about the order of ideas in the story T reviews the features of a good story and asks them to talk in groups to see whether they know what to do and how to do Ss are given 10 minutes to come up with a good story
T asks the students to pass their stories to the pair next to them and in this manner they check and correct the errors they find in the respective stories Ss vote for the best story T picks the story he thinks is the best T corrects errors if there are any