DELTA Language Systems 1 (Lexis)

Name: Gulmira Viker Date: November 27, 2011 Room: SSCE classroom (Library)
Time
2 min.

Length: 50 min Materials: whiteboard, whiteboard markers, Power Point Presentation slides,
Interaction
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handouts, strips with idioms and their meanings.

Stage and Activity

Greetings, Agenda Agenda: 1. Revision 2. House idioms 3. Practice 4. Home Assignment

Reason
To prepare the students for the lesson

7 min

The idiom revision from the previous lessons (couch potato, be crazy about something, drive somebody crazy) *Put the idioms on the board and ask the students if they remember them. Elicit their meanings, ask for examples.

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To activate the previous knowledge and review what an idiom is.

10 min.

Have the students work in groups of four/five. Hand out the idioms and their meanings. Ask the students to match the idioms with their meanings. Go over their answers.

Guided discovery

To check understanding T

DELTA Language Systems 1 (Lexis)

15 min.

Exercise 1: Power Point Presentation

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To reinforce the meaning of the idioms

Tell the students that you are going to show them slides S S with sentences part of which is underlined. They need to read the sentences carefully and replace the underlined part with the proper idiom. They first work individually. After they are finished, have them work in pairs and compare their answers. Go over the answers and correct if necessary. T-S To ensure that he students understand the meaning of the idioms 13 min Exercise 2: Complete the following sentences using the idioms Students work individually and then compare their answers in a group. Teacher reads the answers aloud. Students check their answers without being put on spot and practice listening skills. SS To make sure that the students know the meanings of idioms and how to use them.

3 min

Class Dismissal / Homework Make up 2 sentences to illustrate the use of these idioms

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To enable students to become independent learners and enable those students who like learning on their own.