Lesson script 3rd educational stage (III.0), English Content area:

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Lesson script

3rd educational stage (III.0), English

Content area:

Developing foreign language communication competence

Detailed requirements:

Student (6.1) responds verbally in a simple and comprehensible manner in typical situations – enters into social relations (e.g. introduces himself/herself and other people, greets other people, provides basic information about himself/herself and asks others about their or other people’s personal details).

Topic

: Family tree

Duration

: 45 minutes

Detailed goals regarding the range of information

Student:

 Knows terms which describe family members;

 Knows relationships between family members;

 Knows vocabulary required to briefly introduce people.

Detailed goals regarding the range of skills

Student:

 Can name family members;

 Can describe relationships between people;

 Can briefly introduce people;

 Can complete a diagram using the information provided;

 Develops communications skills.

Detailed goals regarding attitudes

Student:

 Learns to cooperate in pairs and groups;

 Learns to listen to others;

 Learns to respect other students’ families.

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Methods

Elicitation; presentation; communication gap; personalization; whole class, small groups, pairwork.

Forms and venue

Forms: whole class, groupwork, pairwork.

Classes are to be held in the classroom.

Materials and teaching aids

Presentation; a set of worksheets (A and B) for each pair of students; computer and multimedia projector; board.

Multimedia resources

 Presentation: My Family

 Worksheet: Family Tree

 Online dictionary

Lesson plan/procedure

* Before the lesson teacher asks students to bring in family photographs to the lesson.

1 Warm-up

Interaction forms: whole class Duration: 5 minutes

Teacher says: My name’s (Barbara). He/She turns to a student at the first desk and pointing at him says: His name’s (Peter). Then teacher asks the student to do the same, i.e. say: My name’s (Peter). Her name’s (Kate) – pointing to the next student. The same is repeated around the classroom, until the last student finishes with pointing to the teacher.

2 Main stage

2.1. Introduction of the target language –presentation Interaction forms: whole class

Duration: 15 minutes

Teacher tells students that they will see a presentation where someone describes his/her family. The first part of the presentation (slides 1–6) is played once through. Then, the

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presentation (slides 1–6 again) is shown for the second time, and now students are asked to repeat the whole sentences.

Now, teacher should show the second part of the presentation (with key words only, slides 7–12), this time pausing at each slide. Students should use the information on the slides to produce full sentences. This should be drilled around the class.

2.2. Target language practice – communication exercise Interaction forms: pairwork

Students work in pairs. Each pair is given a set of worksheets (Family Tree), A for one student and B for the other. Students are told to imagine that they are introducing their family members to each other. Each of them has information about different people. In turns, they have to give the information they have on their worksheet, in full sentences, e.g. This is my grandfather. His name is Philip. He’s 70. He’s a doctor. The other student has to write the information down on his/her worksheet.

Teacher monitors, helps students and takes notice of any errors to address at the end of the activity. If students are having difficulties in carrying out the task, teacher can write model sentences on the board.

Answers (complete tree, left to right):

Philip (70, doctor), Betty (63, teacher), Peter (64, retired), Emma (64, retired);

John (44, engineer), Natalie (43, dentist);

Me (13, student), Daniel (9, student), Ann (20, university student)

2.3. Target language practice – personalization Interaction forms: small groups

Before the lesson teacher should ask students to bring in family photographs. Now, students will talk about people in the photos, introducing them, e.g. This is my mother. Her name’s Sylwia. She’s 43. She’s a nurse.

Teacher monitors and helps.

3 Closing stage

Interaction forms: whole class

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Duration: 5 minutes

Teacher concludes the lesson by eliciting a few descriptions of family members (from stronger students) in open class.

For homework, students are asked to briefly describe their immediate family.

Additional information

Teacher advises students that the www.scholaris.pl website offers a computer application in the form of a multimedia dictionary presenting correct pronunciation together with

translations of words and phrases learned during the lesson.

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