Objectives:
By the end of the lesson the students will be able to: express teenagers’
opinions on fashion.
Aims:
Linguistic:
- To gain further practice in transforming the content of the text to their own experience.
- To develop speaking skills on the topic “British teenagers’ attitude towards fashion.
Cognitive:
- To increase pupils’ attention and concentration span.
- To develop logical thinking.
- To develop imagination.
- To develop long-term memory.
Social:
- To learn to listen to others.
- To encourage social interaction in pair and group work.
Educational:
- To raise their awareness of British teenagers’ opinions on clothing and fashion.
Relevance to:
- Pupils’ needs: the activity is interesting and meaningful.
- Level of cognitive development: concrete things, exposed language with the ZPD.
Focus on communication:
- A real need and desire (meaningful activity)
- To use the target language.
- Opportunities to experiment with the language (steps for creativity).
Support:
- Visuals (pictures, cards, sets of clothes, hands-outs)
- Cassette.
- Phrases to praise a child:
Super! Good job! Well done! Excellent! |
I knew you could do it! Great! Nice work! How smart! |
Hip! Hop! Hurray! That’s correct! Fantastic job! You’re the tops! |
Designing a Sequence of Speaking Activity
English-8
Pupil's Book p. 167
Topic: “Fashion”
Teacher does | Learners do | ||
Controlled Activity |
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1. Introduction (greets
the pupils) Good afternoon, boys and girls! 2. Organizes work with the class and asks questions.
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1. Greet the teacher and try to
guess the topic of the lesson.
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3. Organizes group work to
check the home task: a) asks pupils(group 1) to work with the
cards, does one as an example;
b) asks pupils (group 2) to work in pairs to say in brief about
Phil’s attitude towards fashion (the game “snow ball”) |
3. a) Match the words to
complete the phrases, read them and make up sentences with the phrases (if
have extra time)
b) Work in pairs to make summary according to the logical scheme:
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Guided Activity |
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4. Reading: a) Puts students in pairs, asks them to read text 2 (find out Tracey’s attitude towards trend, find English equivalents, answer the questions, do the tasks on hand-outs).
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4. Read the text, do the tasks: a. find the equivalents (work in pairs)
b. fill in the gaps in the sentences (use the words from the box)
c. Answer the questions to each other.
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5. Listening: a) Pre-Listening Asks students to look through the phrases and guess which two of them are the most important for Katherine? Puts the cassette (English 8, P. Book p.167)
b) While-Listening Gives students some time to read the statements. Before students work in groups, asks them to listen to the recording again and write “true” or “false”.
c) Post– Listening Notes how well students understood the recording, refers back to the recording if necessary. |
1. Look through the expressions,
read them and check whether their predictions are correct. start as: a.
Really fashionable 2. b) When students are ready, they listen to the recording again and check whether their answers are correct.
3. Groups share their answers in a brief class discussion and answer the questions to practice their speaking.
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Free Activity |
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6. Speaking Asks students to work in groups (Phil, Tracy, Katherine) to make a poster on teenager’s clothing, or let them doing individually then checks. Gives extra words if necessary, listens to the presentation and evaluates. |
6. Choose a card with a teen’s
name, takes items of proper clothing. Work in groups, present their posters. Listen to the groups’ presentations. |
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The End |
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7. Evaluates the work of each
group. Says the total score. 8. Gives home task with comments. Essay: “My attitude towards fashion.” |
7. Listen to their marks and
comments. Share their opinions. 8. Write the home task. |