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Students-Teacher
Group work
Activity 1
Warmer
Aims: to warm students; to check Ss homework, to greet them, to create
an appropriate atmosphere for the lesson
Timing: 4
Class management: Individual work
Interaction: Teacher-Whole class
SS-SS
SS-T
Procedure: T greets Ss and asks Whos missing today?; T checks
homework; T asks Ss to group themselves and find a name for their team.
Activity 2
Home on the Range Movie Segment
Aims: to introduce the topic of the text and to provide a context through
which to teach the grammar
Timing:15
Interaction: Teacher-Whole class
SS-SS
SS-T
Group work
Procedure: Ss watch the movie segment Home on the Range and after
that the T asks her students to say sentences about what they see,
using there is and there are. In groups, Ss think of sentences together,
generating a list with the revised vocabulary. Then the T asks the Ss to
share their sentences with the class.
Activity 3
Presentation
Aims: to raise students' awareness of the difference between there is
and there are in the affirmative, negative and interrogative form
Timing: 7
Interaction: T-S, S-T, S-S, Group Work
Procedure: By inductive teaching, the T makes use of student noticing.
Instead of explaining the new grammar structure and following this
explanation with examples, the teacher presents students with a lot of
examples showing how it is used and then the T, helped by her SS, writes
the new grammar structure on the blackboard.
Activity 4
Scrambled sentences
Aims: to encourage students practice using the phrases there
is and there are in the affirmative, negative, and question forms.
Timing: 7
Interaction: T-S, S-T, S-S, Group Work
Procedure: Parts of the sentences are scrambled and Ss have to arrange
them into the correct order and make sentences using There is, There are
Activity 5
Practice
Aims: to describe four images using there is/ there are sentences and
write them on the blackboard and to give Ss the opportunity to reinforce
and practise the new grammar structure
Timing: 15
Interaction: T-S, S-T, S-S, Group Work