To present and practice the verb "To be" negative
Beginner level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide fluency speaking practice of the negative usage of the verb "to be" in the context of some personal traits.
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide detailed and specific information about the abbreviation of am/is/are that follows subjects; like "I'm, She's, We're".
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To provide clarification of the correct form of the verb "to be"
Procedure (36-47 minutes)
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".
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.
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.
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.
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.