ACE Lesson 18






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Teacher:	Helen Harper	Level:	ACE (Low – High beginner)
Skill:	Speaking & listening	Date:	11th July 2006
Subskills:	Past forms	Topic:	CBT questions for farang
Objective:	To build fluency in asking questions about tourists past experiences in relation to CBT activities & Thailand generally..	Lexis:	Verbs: been, seen, taken, made visited, eaten, tried, gone kayaking,
Language point(s):	This is…..my husband, my friend, my sister… Would you like…to….? Have you ever been/seen,/visited/ eaten etc. Have you ever eaten Thai food? Have you ever been to Thailand?	Anticipated problems:	Confusion with verb forms.

STAGE	E \| S \| A	TARGET LANGUAGE	TEACHER	STUDENT	MATERIALS	TIME	TEACHER’S EVALUATION
	Recap	CBT tour Dialogue	Drill	Half class drill	Student itineraries	4	ok
	Recap	CBT tour dialogue	Demo with one student		Student itineraries	15	ok
	Recap	CBT activities visit a fish farm, visit a rubber farm, go hiking, make tie die, go swimming, go fishing, go biking, Have dinner/breakfast/lunch take a boat ride through the mangroves,	Drill 1st group Drill verb forms properly	Say verb forms		4	They know their CBT activities inside out, and are really familiar with what verb goes with what.
	Elicit	Have you ever….	Use flashcard of bungee jumps & tiger Have you ever (CBT activity)	Students respond.		3	Worked a treat, didn’t really think this through it was just an idea, I thought it would be a nightmare but the bungee jump elicited exactly what I wanted them to understand.
	Elicit	Have you ever….?	Drill 1st group CBT activities Drill using CBT itineraries	Drill		4	I realized I needed them to see the new verb forms before the would totally understand. So I drew a timeline on the board and put ‘now’ and then motioned to myself and did a baby cradling action and wrote ‘1977’. The time in between was ‘ever’ (although one person said ‘before’ which I should have predicted, didn’t deal with that one!) Then I elicited the current verb forms for the CBT activities (go, have etc.) then wrote another column of past verb forms above the ‘ever’ part of the timeline – the two columns were next to each other above the relevant bit of the timeline. First I drilled the whole lot: ME: ‘have’ Students ‘had’ etc. Then ME: ‘had’ Students ‘have’ Then I wiped each column off and drilled it the same way again.
	Practice	Have you ever?	Demo task. Put dice game verbs on board – get students to change form.	Drill verb forms	Dice game	5	Wrote ‘fishing’ ‘fruit farm’ etc. with 1-6 next to them. Dice in pairs “S1: have you ever visited a fruit farm?’ Etc.
	Practice	Have you ever?	Demo task. Take student around CBT tour – asking ‘have you ever….seen/visited/gone….	In pairs Take each other around/through the itineraries. Swap.	Student itineraries.	5	Ok – they were doing have you ever? And how far is it/how long will we be there for/will we come back here. 40
	Produce	Have you ever?	Demo worksheet		Cbt verbpast matchworksheet	4	This went fine although the worksheets were a bit squew wiff, just used CBT 1 verbmatch worksheet and then got them to add ‘see’ to it.
	Recap/ elicit	CBT activities 2 See Sunset on the beach See handicraft demonstration Go Rowing in mangroves goSnorkeling goKayaking go Trip to island Have lunch on krachang Have free time Visit Wildlife sanctuary Visit fruit farm	Drill 1st group Drill verb forms properly	Say verb forms and activities		4	I actually did all the activities at once, I didn’t break them into two groups, hence the change in worksheet (above)
	Practice	Have you ever?	Demo task. Put dice game verbs on board – get students to change form.	Drill verb forms	Dice game	3	See above
	Practice	Have you ever?	Demo task. Take student around CBT tour – asking ‘have you ever….seen/visited/gone….	In pairs Take each other around/through the itineraries. Swap.	Student itineraries.	5	See above 56
	Produce	Have you ever?	Demo worksheet		Cbt verbpast matchworksheet 2	3	See above
	Elicit	Have you ever been to….?	Drill Have you ever… and response	Drill Ask your partner.		3
	Practice	Welcoming dialogue & have you ever been to….?		Ask your partner.		3
	Produce	Welcoming dialogue & have you ever been to….?		Mingle		7	72
	Listening Prediction	Put pictures in order.	Give out CBT pictures to pairs of students Play dialogue	Put in order. Listen to dialogue to see if they’re right.	Pictures in order	2	DND
	Listening Detail	Fill the gap	Demo worksheet Play tape	Fill the gap	Fill the gap worksheet.	5	DND 77
	Elicit	Family lexis	Family tree. I have…..	In pairs, tell each other about your family.		4	Changed this – elicited ‘this is’ using the monkey as my sister. Then elicited ‘this is a shrimp farm/handicraft centre’ etc. with what flashcards were lying around. Then added them to the classroom CBT tour and they continued practicing the whole dialogue integrating introductions to family & places.
	Practice	Family lexis	Draw pictures of family	Draw pictures of family members.		3
	Elicit	This is my sister, Lorraine. This is my friend….Jo.	This is…. Drill ‘This is my….. Who’s this?			2
	Practice	This is my father, mother, friend	Stick up pictures around the room.	Half go around and get introduced, half introduce Swap.	.	4	90
	Elicit	CBT lexis from homework	Nominate students	Student responds.	Homework lexis flashcards.	7	Drilled flashcards fine – they know these pretty well although ‘coil’ and ‘towel’ always need some pronunciation work.
	Elicit	Would you like?	Nominate students.			3	Went well.
	Practice	Would you like? Homework lexis	Pass around the flashcards to each student			3	Went well – added in a picture of a bathroom so every so often they would have to say ‘do you need to use the bathroom?’
	Produce	Would you like? Homework lexis	Newspaper game	Newspaper game.		5	Did this with the second class last week and they got into it ok. 108

NOTES:

Pre-Lesson:

Dice TPR CBT 1
1.visit
2. take
3. make
4. have
5. go
6: go

Dice TPR CBT 2
1. See
2. Go
3. Have
4. Visit
5. have
6. Visit

Post-Lesson:

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