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ACE English Program Lesson Planner |
| Teacher: | Level: | ACE (High beginner) | |
| Skill: | Vocabulary, speaking | Date: | Lesson #30 – August 22, 2006 |
| Subskills: | Giving descriptions | Topic: | Descriptions of People and Things |
| Objective: | SWBAT: Increase their speaking confidence via a relaxed, conversation-oreiented lesson. Describe things they touch and feel using adjectives from HW#12 and lexis from the course |
Lexis: | Adjectives (from previous lesson): soft, rough, heavy, light, short, long, smooth, thick, thin, hard, dark, new, old, expensive, cheap, straight, curvy, shallow, deep Adjectives (new): empty, full, beautiful, ugly, narrow, wide, early, late, high, low. Adjectives (people): |
| Language point(s): | A: Can you describe it? B: It’s light, soft, straight… A: Name something that’s tall and thin. B: The teacher. |
Anticipated problems: | Confusion of recurring words (light/dark vs. light/heavy) |
| STAGE | E | S | A | TARGET LANGUAGE | TEACHER | STUDENT | MATERIALS | TIME | TEACHER’S EVALUATION |
| E | Theme | Engage students in a brief conversation. Include loads of description-related questions specific to things. [1] | Responds. Thinks critically | whiteboard, markers | 15 min | This is hot! Continue this warm up at the start of every lesson with various recap. | |
| E | Theme | Re-elicits the lexis from previous lesson. Don’t stress about writing it unless Ss are struggling. Try and do this in ten minutes or less. | Responds | previous realia | 10 min | Ss were on it! Word. Segued into empty/full using a glass that they’d just described. | |
| E | Theme | Elicits new lexis. For narrow walked through chairs placed close together. Beautiful used a magazine photo. Empty and full poured water into a glass. Early and late used clock and showed times before and after the class start time. High and low required a drawing of the sky with a bird. | Responds | whiteboard, marker, magazine, glass, water, | High and low gave them some trouble. One Ss later used high instead of tall. | ||
| S/A | Theme | Shouts out adjectives. | Shouts back with the opposite adjective. | none | 5 min | Read from the BINGO list [2]. Ss did well but confused some similar-sounding words: wide and white late and light |
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| S | Theme | Hands out PT1. Monitor. | Completes task. | PT1: Opposite Adjectives | 5 min | No problems here. | |
| S/A | Theme | Opposites Attract! Hands out cards with two adjectives written on them. Ss have to mingle to find their opposite “partner.” |
Ss read their cards. Memorize what’s on them. Mingles with class. “I am soft and light.” “I am hard and dark.” MATCH! | index cards with adjectives written on them | 7 min | Had to stop them from showing each other their cards. Some pronunciation issues arose here, which isn’t surprising given how little emphasis was placed on this skill. | |
| A | Theme | Opposite Adjective Bingo! Writes the list of 24 adjectives (some are PoP) on the whiteboard. [2] Drill as you go. (Alter [2] if some good adjectives came out of stage 15.) Hands out the BINGO cards. Tells Ss to fill in the randomly fill in the matrix. Models the game. |
Marks each square with an X that matches the opposite adjective they hear. First to get five across, down, or diagonal shouts BINGO! | Bingo cards (From Azar’s Fun With Grammar, Ch 9, page 189) | 10 min | Several Ss knew the game. Took them ages to fill in the matrices. They weren’t too jazzed about the game (couldn’t get them to shout BINGO). Perhaps it needed a speaking component? (Ss reading out the words?) | |
| E | Theme | Writes the question “Can you describe him/her?” on the whiteboard. Elicits as much lexis as possible. | Responds. | whiteboard | 10 min | Ss were able to offer a lot of feedback here, including clothes. | |
| S | Theme | Hands out PT2. Ask Ss to circle the describing words. Asks OC questions. [3] | Responds | PT2: Describing people. | 10 min | Only did this task with the first class. It was totally overwhelming and there wasn’t much lexis in the task anyway. I did ask most of the oral comprehansion questions. | |
| A | Theme | Magazine search! Breaks class into three groups and gives them magazines, scissors, paper, and glue. Have them cut out three people, glue the picture to a shet of paper, and write as much as possible about the person. | Responds | magazines, scissors, paper, glue, | 15 min | Only did this with the second class. They loved it! (stayed 15 minutes past the end of class to finish). I left the network tree on the whiteboard as there was no effective paper task for them to complete. Received some interesting descriptions, including “milk” accompanying a picture of Pamela Anderson. They have no concept of the use of the verb “to have.” Will include this in homework #13. |
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| Pre-Lesson:
[1] [2] BINGO words
[3] Oral Comprehension Questions for PT2: |
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