duction to the class, a warm-up activity to get everyone involved, group work on dialogues, presentation of skits or survey results in front of the class, and a short conclusion reviewing what was learned and pointing out common mistakes.
Finally, you should always have a “contingency plan” to fill up any space that might exist at the end of the class. These plans may consist of an additional game/activity, or of an exercise that will help students to build bridges in their minds between structures and vocabulary learned in different lessons and that learned that day.
Content to be covered: Visit to the doctor/pharmacist
- Review vocabulary: parts of body, where to go to find something (type of store, where in store)
- Review grammar: command forms of verbs (“Take two aspirin every morning”)
- New vocabulary: ways to describe illness and methods of remedying it
- New grammar: giving advice “I would recommend” + [verb+ing]
Introduction: quick review of parts of body, command forms
- Warm-up activity: Simon Says (10 minutes)
- Introduction of new material: common ailment vocabulary, advice language. Write it on the board, and have them copy it into their notebooks.
- Group work: worksheets with two dialogues – doctor/patient, pharmacist/client
- Report back to class: Doctors describe patient’s ailments, patients describe doctor’s advice
- Review of new material, point out common mistakes
- Contingency plan: review of city directions, combined with advice form. Write a command sequence on the board: take bus #12 to downtown, walk three blocks north.” Next, have your students convert it to advice form: “I would recommend taking bus #12, walking three blocks north.”
Materials: Worksheets with dialogues and word replacement suggestions, large picture of human body to review parts of body.
Content to be covered: Clothing/Fashion Attitudes
- Review vocabulary: frequency vocabulary (once a week), commands (stand up, touch your ear)
- Review grammar: expressing opinions (I think that, I prefer to)
- New vocabulary: fashion