SPEAKING. Expressing interest

Date:

Theme: SPEAKING. Expressing interest

Level and number of learners/ class profile

Beginner level

Timetable fit

Learners already have learned past tenses

Main aim(s)

Learn key phrases for expressing interest;

Subsidiary aims

Practise expressing interest;

Assumptions

Learners can use past simple to describe past events

Anticipated problem

Learners may have problems in making their own dialogues using past tenses

Possible solution

Revising past tenses, giving sentence starters before the task

Timing

Procedure

Stage aims

Aids and materials

Interaction pattern

10minutes

Learners tell the class something interesting that they did last summer.

T responds with interest, f.e by saying Really? Or You’re kidding! Learners say what T is doing and eliciting that T is showing interest.

Learners look at the photo in ex1 and talk their ideas.

Warmer: to get learners guess the topic

To give learners opportunity to share their ideas

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Individual work

T eacher

Whole class

Pairwork

10minutes

T introduces the ways of responding to good news:

Wow! That’s fantastic/ great news.

Congratulations!

You’re joking!

You lucky thing!

Well done!

Have you? / Did you?

To introduce new vocabulary

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T eacher

Whole class

10minutes

Ex3p56 Before acting out the dialogue learners discuss what about the dialogue is.

Covering the dialogue learners complete the key phrases. Learners also practice the key phrases, using the correct intonation.

To improve learners’ spoken performance

To check that learners have memorized the key phrases

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Pairwork

Individual work

5minutes

Ex4p56 After going through the ideas in the box and checking understanding learners prepare their ideas individually, then work in pairs to tell their partner some amazing things and express interest. Learners may make notes before they speak.

Intensive speaking

Word frame

I ndividual work

Pairwork

5minutes

Ex5p56 Learners describe what is happening in the photo. And replace the phrases in blue in the dialogue with phrases a-f. Key: 1a 2f 3c 4e 5d 6b

To focus on making a dialogue

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Pairwork

(Teacher monitors)