Lesson

Topic

Language Analysis

Skills

Activities

One

Interpreting Pictures

-Describing a scene; describing people.

-Use of adjectives, present and past simple

-Vocabulary area – clothes; everyday objects; action verbs.

-Forming a mental picture; activating critical listening and analytical skills

-Team, group and pair discussions, dialogues and interactions in various ways to encourage collaboration and self- management

-Brainstorming with the help of pictures

-Describe the picture from memory

-Listening – Match what you hear with yours – same?

-Look at picture and listen again and do the task

-Uncover the picture- listen to the complete description now – Discuss your findings.

-Pair work- Show picture for seconds- Close ask your partner to describe from memory

-Whole class feedback

Two

Meeting People

Describing people; narration, use of adjectives, present and past simple

Vocabulary area – clothes; parties; facial features

-Forming a mental picture; following a story; activating critical listening and analytical skills

-Team, group and pair discussions, dialogues and interactions in various ways to encourage collaboration and self- management

-Focus on listening and speaking with brief instances of writing and reading for further practice purposes.

-Party Scene – Look at the picture of 6 people and guess the most interesting person to talk to

-Listen to them - 2     conversations about the party and discuss questions

-First Meeting- Put the pictures in the correct order

-Listen to the tape and see if you’re right

-Complete the task and Listen- role –play –First meeting- 2 best friends- tell other how you first met

-Whole class feedback

Three

Get Well Soon

Social interactions; giving instructions

Adjectives, present, past simple and adverbs of frequency

Vocabulary area – Illnesses; cures

-Illnesses; cures

-Predicting and guessing; following instructions

-Activating critical listening and analytical skills

-Team, group and pair discussions, dialogues and interactions in various ways to encourage collaboration and self- management

-Focus on listening and speaking with brief instances of writing and reading for further practice purposes.

-Interpret pictures

-Listen to remarks and decide which picture it goes with

-Listen to two conversations and check your answers

-Choose a picture with another student and imagine you’re the two people on the tape- Improvise the conversation- include the language you heard but try to add to it.

-Next- listen to four people – which things does each mention

-Listen again and do the task

-Whole class feed back

Four

Presents

-Predicting and guessing; following instructions

-Team, group and pair discussions, dialogues and interactions in various ways to encourage collaboration and self- management

-Speaking

-Writing

-Reading

-Listening

-Brainstorm the topic

-Listen to the man describing the present he got; he used words like big, ridiculous, fortune; guess what his present is.

-Listen to a story about the girl who went to stay in France, guess how the story will continue.

Five

Holidays

-Describing scenes; narration  using adjectives, present and past simple

-Vocabulary area – holidays; travel

-Speaking

-Writing

-Reading

-Listening

-Brainstorm holiday photos and choose words for each picture

-Complete descriptions- which is which?

-Read and mark the route on the map

-Which islands will you recommend to someone?

-Imagine you could spend a week on one of the islands which one would you choose? Tell your friends why.

-Now work with a partner-find out if he/she has ever been to an island

-Whole class feedback

Six

What’s going on?

Social interactions; requests and offers

Present and past simple and the present continuous to talk about actions in progress

Vocabulary area – everyday situation

-Predicting and guessing

activating critical listening and analytical skills

-Talking about everyday situations – trying to follow the ‘thread’ of a conversation

-Team, group and pair discussions, dialogues and interactions in various ways to encourage collaboration and self- management

-Focus on listening and speaking with brief instances of writing and reading for further practice purposes.

-Reading short passages for gist

-Listen to tape and do the task

-Discussion- What really happened?

-Listen again and underline

-Requests, offers and invitations Listen to response on the tape and match them with the remarks

-Now listen to the complete conversation and feel in the gaps

-Pair work- dialogue

-Whole class feedback

Seven

How to Do it?

-Giving instructions, e.g. how a make a sail boat from a square of paper

-Vocabulary

-Focus on listening and speaking with brief instances of writing and reading for further practice purposes.

- listening for specific information to do some tasks.

-Practice Exercise – Read the joke and decide which word or words best fit(s) each space.

-ORIGAMI Instructions – Sailboat – read the instructions and see if you can make a sailboat from a square of paper.

-Brainstorm – what can you make from folding paper?

Eight

Early One Morning

Recognizing different sounds

Listen and distinguish standard sounds

Warner: Noise, noise, noise. Role –Play- students-some play dogs / cats / crying/babies/ an angry father etc.

Discussion – The effect of Noise – in the society. Why does noise come from?

Is it best to live in a peaceful place? Why?

Nine

Air Travel

-Describing personal experiences; public announcements using adjectives, present and past simple

-Vocabulary area –  travel, leisure, activities, airports

-Listening and speaking

-Matching with your own experiences; listening for specific information to do some tasks

-Brainstorming

-Listen to the tape- did they say the same things as you?

-Imagine you’re Jane traveling to New York , and you’re waiting in the departure lounge – Listen to the tape- you’ll hear seven announcements- Which ones concern you? Complete the table

-Imagine that the person sitting next to you can not hear very well. Listen to the announcements again and after each one, explain to him or her.

-You are now on the plane; write down your airport experience with this person who could not hear very well in memo. form in your diary so that you can relate it to your relations in New York.

-Whole class feedback

Ten

Small Talk

Introductions; ‘small talk’

-Listening and speaking

-Following the ‘thread’ of a conversation

-Activating critical listening and analytical skills

-Party guests – What do you think the people in the pictures are saying

-Listen to the tape, then look at the pictures. Complete the gaps in the bubbles

-Coffee morning – Listen to people chatting – answer the questions

-Listen again and put the phrases in the right order

-Compare your order with your group members – Listen again and help each other to sort things out.

-Say why you made those choices to your group

-Whole class feedback