ACE Lesson 12






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Teacher:	Helen Harper	Level:	ACE (Low – High beginner)
Skill:	Speaking	Date:	19 May 2006
Subskills:	Grammar	Topic:	Professions in my village 1
Objective:	To be able to say what you do, and what people in their village do and did before and after the tsunami.	Lexis:	What? Professions: a Housewife, accountant, farmer, builder, rubber tapper, driver, mechanic, cleaner, cook Saleswoman, salesman, fisherwoman, fisherman, craftswoman, craftsman The chief, public servant
Language point(s):	What do you do? I’m an ACE expert. What does he/she do? He’s a builder/she’s a/ What do they do? They’re ACE experts. Before the tsunami I was a fisherman. Now I’m an ACE expert. Before the tsunami she/he was a farmer. Now he’s a builder. Before the tsunami they were fishermen. Now they are salesmen. Most of the men in my village are…most of the women are Some of the men are, some of the women are A few of the men are, a few of the women are..	Anticipated problems:	Using the wrong form of the verb, not doing their homework which will mean teaching rather than recapping the lexis. Eliciting the concept of third person. Students will probably know who each other are talking about so practice tasks will really rely on their willingness to practice rather than wanting to find out the information.

STAGE	E \| S \| A	TARGET LANGUAGE	TEACHER	STUDENT	MATERIALS	TIME	TEACHER’S EVALUATION
1	Elicit	Profession lexis (incl.plurals) Housewife, accountant, farmer, builder, rubber tapper, driver, mechanic, cleaner, cook	TPR Image prompt circle drill Note pronunciation problems (how-wie = housewife, driwer – driver, accountan = accountant)	TPR Drill		5	They knew this vocab to an extent already, but the TPR definitely helped. ‘Farmer’ instigated a heap of goat baaing noises….
2	Elicit	Profession lexis (incl. plurals) Saleswoman, salesman, fisherwoman, fisherman, craftswoman, craftsman The chief, public servant	Drill with female & male students holding flashcards, then take flashcards away. Note pronunciation problem: craftswoman	Drill		4	Didn’t use flashcards, just tested them by shouting the male and female forms of the different professions, so if I said ‘craftswomen’ only the girls did it, if I said ‘fishermen’ only the boys etc. Drilled single and plural by pointing to one student, then two students.
3		I am, he is, she is, they are Profession lexis
4	Elicit	What do you do? I’m an ACE expert. What do they do? They’re ACE experts.	What do you do? What do they do?	I’m an ACE expert They’re ACE experts.	Pictures of some of the the other ACE experts.	3	This worked well to elicit ‘they’.
5	Practice (drill)	What do you do? What do they do?	Drill	Half class drill	Coloured figures on card TPR	2	Didn’t use coloured cards, just drilled the different professions.
6	Practice	What do you do? I’m an ACE expert.	Demo worksheet	Complete worksheet	Plurals & verb form worksheet. I & they	4	This went ok, had to monitor quite carefully though, I think the design of the worksheet wasn’t that great but it still worked ok.
7	Practice	What do they do?	Demo task [act as the farang, nominate student to take over teacher (farang) role]	Farang: What do they do? Villagers: TPR ACE experts: They’re….		4	This worked a treat. People were actually figuring out pronouns for the first time, using them, and correcting each other. I demoed it carefully. Four students standing in a square. One farang, one ACE expert. Farang asks the question “what do they do? ACE expert says ‘they’re fishermen..’ the other two students begin TPRing fishermen. The they would walk around in the circle to take on the next role.
8	Elicit	He/she Does	What does he/she do? Drill table	She’s a, he’s a… CLOSE YOUR BOOKS		2
9	Practice	He/she	What does he do? She’s a….	In pairs with info gap sheet.	What does he/she do info gap 1 & 2 & pics		This worked well – I like using pictures for asking about he and she in pair tasks.
10	Practice	What does he/she do? What do they do?	Demo worksheet	Fill in worksheet	Fill the gap worksheet. He & she & they & I	4	Did the practice task first (next, below) as it worked well the first time. Restricted it to ‘he’ and ‘she’ this time. Then did the worksheet. Then did another role play using all four forms.
11	Produce	What does he/she do? What do they do?	Demo task: Assign students as farang, ACE experts & villagers.	What does she do? What do they do?		3
12	Produce	What does he/she do? She’s a… What do they do? They’re	Your village	Farang, villagers & ACE experts tour the village.		5
13	Elicit	Most of, a few of, some of…	Scale on board/homework OHP		Homework OHP/ whiteboard	3
14	Elicit	Women, men	Stick figures on board	‘women!’ ‘men!’		1	This went ok.
15	Elicit	Most of the women are.. Most of the men are..	Drill	Drill		2
16	Practice	Most of the women are.. Most of the men are..	My village profile	Put students in groups according to village.		4	DND
17	Produce	Most of, a few of, some of, the women/men are… Most of the men are…	Your village profile	Mingle – group students according to village. Present to the ‘farang’. In TND most of the, some of the, a few of the…		4	Nominated students for this and it went ok.
18	Bwrk	All question & answer forms	What’s incorrect?	Nominated student correct forms.		4	1hr. DND
19	Recap	Profession lexis	Kim’s game/ rolled up newspaper game			5	DND
20	Elicit	Before, now	Timeline	Before, now		1	This went ok.
21	Elicit	Now, I’m an ACE expert. Now she’s a Now he’s a Now they are	Now, I’m an ACE expert	Drill.		2	This went ok, just did first person form though.
22	Elicit	What did you do before the tsunami? Before the tsunami I was a… What did she do before the tsunami? She was He was	Drill What did you do before the tsunami? Before I was Drill before/now verb forms	Before I was…a… Now I’m a, he’s a, she’s a		3
23	Practice	Before the tsunami I was, she was, he was. Now she’s a, I’m a he’s a	Demo worksheet	Timeline worksheet	Go over homework	4
24	Practice	What did you do before the tsunami? Before the tsunami I was a…now I’m an ACE expert.	Drill	Drill/half class drill. Substitute cards.		2
25	Practice	Before the tsunami, now I’m a	Demo interview.	Pairs Present/interview Write down		4	Got them to mingle and write down each other’s past occupations, then feedback asking ‘what did she do before the tsunami’ This also concept checked the pronoun work before as whoever was being referred to didn’t speak, so they knew they were being talked about rather than being talked to.
26	Produce	What did you do before the tsunami?	Demo mingle Write name and profession (can be in Thai)	Mingle		5
27	Practice	Before the tsunami she/he was a	Bring student to the front and ask about another student. Or, bring student What did she do before the tsunami?	Class drill.		5
28	Cooler	/th/	The things that these things think, they’re the things that these things think.				I like this one as a ‘cooler’ it gets them totally focused on something else and exercises their tongue for /th/. Good fun.

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