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Teacher: Helen Harper Level: ACE (Low – High beginner)
Skill: Listening Date: 6th May 2006
Subskills:   Topic: Recap 2
Objective: Comprehension check and ability to listen to lexis & grammar from previous lessons. Lexis: Hospitality dialogue – practice & listening
Comparatives/superlatives – practice & listening
Emotions, happy, sad, angry, tired, hungry, thirsty, confused, surprised, sick, hot, cold, scared (plus whatever Ss come up with)
How do you feel?
Do you feel [emotion]?

Family lexis [check with Erik]

Language point(s): Please, thank you, your welcome.
Hello, welcome to……

How are you?
I’m fine thanks.

Where are you from?
I’m from Scotland/England/America/ Canada/Japan.

Was your journey ok?
Yes thanks.

Are you hungry/thirsty/tired?
Yes I am/no I’m not.

Would you like some water/food/to lie down?
Yes thanks.

Anticipated problems:  

STAGE E | S | A TARGET LANGUAGE TEACHER STUDENT MATERIALS TIME
1 Elicit Feelings
happy, sad, angry, tired, hungry, thirsty, confused, surprised, sick, hot, cold, scared
TPR TPR   5
2 Elicit Please, thank you, your welcome.
Hello, welcome to……

How are you?
I’m fine thanks.

Where are you from?
I’m from Scotland/England/America/ Canada/Japan.

Drill – teacher led Drill Mini country flashcards. 3
  Elicit As above Drill – Half class drill   3
  Elicit How was your journey? Drill Half class drill   3
2 Practice Whole dialogue Facilitate mingle Mingle Mini country flshcds 4
Elicit & study Are you hungry/thirsty/sleepy
Yes I am/no I’m not.

Would you like some water/food/to lie down?
Yes thanks.

TPR TPR   4
Practice As above Demo task, facilitate task,
Monitor
In pairs
S1: Are you….?
S2 Yes I am, no I’m not.
Hungry/thirsty/sleepy cards 5
  F/b          
Elicit Comparatives Teacher led – two objects.   Realia 3
Study Comparatives Teacher led – hold up the right objects Hold up right objects Comparative object pictures/ country flags/ journey pictures 5
Practice Comparatives Facilitate & monitor In pairs Comparative & object worksheet. 4
Hmrk Comparatives OHP OHP Homework OHP 4
  Elicit Superlatives & family lexis Oldest & youngest OHP Homework OHP 3
Listening Gist/prediction Comparatives & superlatives Play part of dialogue Who is welcoming who?

Listening picking right picture.

Dialogue & mini disc
3 Wtbrd pics
(1 psn off bus, 2 psns welcoming, switch around numbers
3
Listening Detail Comparatives and superlatives
Journey
Welcome
How

Where
Family
Food
bag

Hold up your hand if you hear it
Do in two groups of words
Play twice
Assign certain words to different students   6
Listening detail Comparatives & superlatives Answer specific questions   Comp_intro detail wrksht 10
IF TIME Nouns     Wrdsearch 15
Homework Three sentences Present to class Oral presentation   20 - 30
Cooler Nouns (see below) Circle vocab game   Big noun flshcads? If they exist.  

NOTES:
Pre-Lesson:
Nouns: bag, shell, tree, boat, lifejacket, candle, mirror, painkillers, plaster, wallet, circle, triangle, fish, cut.

Post-Lesson:

This lesson went ok, but I knew the introductions dialogue was quite basic and the first class threw me by asking me if I was married etc. so I didn’t do some of the practice tasks. With the second class I stuck to my guns and it went fine.

Tasks to take:

Comparative tasks: teacher led then in pairs.
Holding up the right comparative combination works really well.  Give students a set of objects e.g.
One short black tree, one long black tree, one short white tree, one long white tree – I also had big and small black and white squares, circles, tall and short Ben & Erik etc.
Give one set to each pair, then say a sentence:
‘The white tree is taller than the black tree’ and they have to hold them up in the right order (tall white tree, short black tree).
Then give one student in each pair a worksheet with images on it: e.g. a short black boat and a long white boat, and they have to say to their partner: ‘the black boat is shorter than the white boat’, and their partner has to pick out the right objects. Then once they’ve completed one sheet give their partner a different sheet.
This task works really well because you can instantly see who’s struggling with the concept, and they get faster at holding up the objects once they get the hang of it.
Another thing to do would be to get them to right the sentences underneath the pictures on the worksheet.

Comparative/superlative listening tasks
Listening tasks went well, one class asked to hear it all four times to make sure they got it.  They had to circle one option from three – e.g. heavy   heaviest   heavier than, and even the more advanced students got some wrong. 

Wordsearch went better than I thought it would, really made them think about the spelling of objects, and it would be good for a beginner class familiarizing themselves with English letters.

ELLP Report (if applicable): n/a (recap)

ELLP Chapter No:

How did this chapter relate to your lesson (e.g. similar language focus, lexis used, linking concepts etc.)?

Which activities were deemed not suitable for your lesson – why not?

Which activities did you use/adapt for your lesson?

Were these activities effective? (If not why not – if so, why?)

Recommendations for any alterations to ELLP lesson & activities (for the purpose of ACE English)

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