Jorge Gaitán Jorge Gaitán

TP7-LP-Writing
Upper-intermediate level

Description

Teaching practice 7 - Writing Students learn the structure of an informal e-mail about future plans using the verb "will".

Materials

Abc Breakout rooms
Abc Powerpoint presentation
Abc Google Slides presentation

Main Aims

  • To provide product writing practice of an informal e-mail using future tense with the verb "will" in the context of future plans for the holidays.

Subsidiary Aims

  • To provide practice of sentences in future tense in the context of future plans for the holidays.

Procedure

Warmer/Lead-in (4-6 minutes) • To set lesson context and engage students

Students are given two questions, which they discuss as a group or in BORs, according to the amount of people. After discussing for 3 minutes, conduct OCFB for two minutes to allow students to share the results of their conversation and provide some error correction if necessary. Lead-in Questions: What is your favourite holiday? Why is it your favourite holiday?

Exposure (8-10 minutes) • To provide a model of production expected in coming tasks through reading/listening

Students are told to read a sample e-mail and to check its formality and structure. After one minute of reading, they are sent to BORs for two minutes to discuss their answers. Afterwards, perform OCFB to confirm that they understand the tone of the e-mail, and reveal the sections of the e-mail. Meaning is checked by giving the students the names of the sections and asking them which name corresponds to each section. The body of the e-mail is also divided in parts to analyze its contents and purpose.

Useful Language (5-8 minutes) • To highlight and clarify useful language for coming productive tasks

Students are prompted to analyse how to complete five sentences from different parts of the e-mail according to their grammatical structure and appropriacy. Greeting: Dear + ? (Students are expected to recognize that saying the person's first name implies closeness and informality, whereas using a title such as Mr. or Ms. implies formality) Body: I will + ? (The verb "will" must be followed by a verb in base form) Sign off: students are asked to think of formal and informal alternatives for the sign off phrase.

Productive Task(s) (12-14 minutes) • To provide an opportunity to practice target productive skills

Students are asked to recall the holiday they mentioned during the lead-in stage and to think of things that can be done during it. They are provided with a link to a Google Slides document that has a model e-mail for them to follow when writing their own texts. They are shown the structure of the document to locate their designated slide. Use ICQs to confirm the task is understood.

Feedback and Error Correction (5-6 minutes) • To provide feedback on students' production and use of language

Students provided with a checklist of aspects to take into account when reviewing their groupmates' texts. They are sent to BORs for four minutes to read each other's texts and analyse them based on the rubric provided. After returning from the BORs, ask the students what difficulties they had and do DEC as needed,

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