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To present and practice the verb "To be" negative
Beginner level

Description

In this lesson, Ss learn about the positive and the negative usage of the verb "to be" through a game on the WB based on some question forms of "to be" and the answers to these questions. The lesson starts with warmer. T and the classmates get to know each other, again by using some sentence and question structure of "to be" with the vocabulary they've learned lately. This is followed by a listening and a fill in the blanks activities about the topic. Ultimately, there is some speaking practice via role-play activity, in which Ss do some PW. During this session, T gets some FB by overhearing the conversations of the pair groups.

Materials

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Main Aims

  • To provide fluency speaking practice of the negative usage of the verb "to be" in the context of some personal traits.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide detailed and specific information about the abbreviation of am/is/are that follows subjects; like "I'm, She's, We're".
  • To provide clarification of the correct form of the verb "to be"

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (5-8 minutes) • Get to know each other

T writes "To be or not to be-that's the questions, by Shakespeare" on the board and introduce herself like "I am a teacher, but I'm not a student or a retired person. I wish I am." Then, T asks Ss to express who they are or not, has them discuss on this saying from the play "Hamlet".

Lesson Focus (10-12 minutes) • To arouse Ss in main the topic of the lesson

T hangs the photos of 4 celebrities from different jobs and under each photo hangs some flags, jobs, nationalities. Most of them are wrong matches. T has the class decide which of them are True and False and have them express them with the negative and positive usage of "To be" and the usage of questions.

Specific Details (8-10 minutes) • To elicit on the WB the positive and the negative form of the verb "to be"

T writes those below on the WB: I am (= I'm) he/she/it is (=he's/she's/it's) we/you/they (=we're/you're/they're) I am at home. She's a gardener. We're dentists. After giving one example T has the class do the fill in the blank exercise in the first page of the HO.

Listening exercise 1 & 2 (5-7 minutes) • Listening for gist

Ss listen to the recording twice and correct the sentences. They work in pairs. T highlights some probably unknown words with gestures, like plane. Ss also repeat all the sentences, after T. For the second exercise, T stops the record after each twin sentences.

Context & Guessing (8-10 minutes) • To review the lesson focus via guessing game

T hands out a small paper to the WC. Each of them has a different word of jobs on it. T asks them not to show it anybody. T has Ss separate as two groups in equal numbers. T names each group as Cools and Smarts. T writes all the words on the board. They try to guess the words one by one to whom they want to address, asks such questions as "What's your job?", "Are you a doctor?". Ss answer as "No, I'm not." The group who has more correct guesses, wins. They help each other by saying True or False.

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