Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 108: Preparation date :20 /3/2011 Unit 13: Lesson : Speaking I. Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express agreement or disagreement about holiday activities. - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to give reasons to argue for their opinion. II. Lexical items : -unicorn -trick - nasty - halloween - stunning III- Structures : - That’s true . I completely agree with you. - That’s not the way I see it. IV- Teaching aids: - textbook - Handouts - chalk - cards V- Techniques : - skill-based ( listening, speaking) VI- Procedures : State /time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Mate rials 1. war m-up (7’) Games: Describing Pictures -Ask SS to work in small groups. - Show SS a picture of “bungee Jumping” ( Appendix 1) -Tell the groups to write down as many adjectives as possible about the activity. -Collect the groups’ pieces of paper, read the adjectives and check with the class . -The group with the most adjectives wins the game. -Declare the winner -Write down on the board the same - Hand outs adjectives from different groups , and some opposite ones if any. -Ask SS : what does it mean when you all use these same adjectives? ( expected: We all agree that…(adjective)…) And what does it mean when some of you use this adjective while the others use the opposite to describe the activity? (expected : That means we disagree with each other about that.) Transition : -What do you say to expressing agreement or disagreement? Today we will practice expressing agreement and disagreement and how to explain reasons. -Write down on the board : Unit 13 : Speaking 2. 1.Matching pictures with holiday Pre- Spea king (7’) activities (task a, p. 183- 184) -Ask SS to study the pictures and match them with the holiday activities. -Tell SS to compare answers in pairs. -Go over the answers which the whole class. 2. Introducing useful language ( tack b, p.184) -Elicit and introduce expressions of agreement and disagreement and the langue used to explain reasons. Useful Expressions: * Agreement: -That’s true. I completely agree with you. - I can’t agree with you more. -Yeah, you’ re right. - Yes, I think so , too. Chalk and board * Disagreement -I don’t quite agree with you because… -That’ not the way I see it. You see… -That’ not a good idea since…… 3. while - Spea king. (23’) Activity 1: talking about holiday activities (tack c, p. 185) -Tell SS to work in small groups, discuss the positive and negative aspects of some holiday activities, and express their agreement or disagreement with their partners, plus explanations of reasons. -Tell SS they can use the phrases suggested in the box and ideas of their own. -Work with a student to model an example. -Suggest some holiday activities around the world for SS to express their opinions about. Textb ook -Go around to monitor and jot down errors for correction later. Activity 2: Find and Match -Put SS into groups of six. -Prepare 4 sets of picture cards, tow sets about the same holiday activity. One of the tow contains a check meaning ‘enjoy’ the other a cross meaning ‘ not enjoy or against ’. -Give each student a card. Make sure SS in each group has 3 different cards so that they all make up 3 different pairs. -Tell SS not to show their card to their friends , but make questions to find the person who goes on the same holiday and who has the same opinion about the holiday and match together. -Go around to control and monitor unobtrusively. Mountaineeri ng boxing wind surfing bungeejumpi ng wrestlin g skiing Textb ook 4. Post- Spea king (7’) 5. Hom ewor k (1’) - call on some students to report about their pairs. Tell the other students with the same cards to express their agreement, and those with a different card to express their disagreement with explanations. -Give feedback and comments. Writing about themselves: - Ask SS to work in pairs and write a few sentences about themselves and their friends concerning entertainment activities. -Tell Ss they can use the prompts given to help them Most of us Some found it… but others… - Call on some students to read their sentences and ask the class to give comments - give feedback and comments Hand out Language Review - Ask SS to review the language used to express agreement and disagreement and to explain reasons. . Lesson Plan (grade 11 – advanced) Period 108: Preparation date :20 /3/2 011 Unit 13: Lesson : Speaking I. Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able. students are able to express agreement or disagreement about holiday activities. - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to give reasons to argue for their opinion. II holiday activities, and express their agreement or disagreement with their partners, plus explanations of reasons. -Tell SS they can use the phrases suggested in the box and ideas of their