Aims : - By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty.. warm-up 7’ Games: Flashing the Pictures -Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B -Flash a
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Period 115 : Preparation date :2 /4/2008 Unit14 : Lesson : Speaking
I Aims :
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to express degrees of certainty
- By the end of the lesson, the students are able to give reasons to talk about their plans for
future
II Lexical items :
III- Structures :
- I might go to Da Lat next summer vacation
IV- Teaching aids:
- textbook - Handouts
V- Techniques :
- skill-based ( listening, speaking)
VI- Procedures :
State/time Teacher’s and students’ activities Blackboard Material
s
1
warm-up
(7’)
Games: Flashing the Pictures
-Arrange SS to work in tow groups, A and B
-Flash a picture quickly and ask SS to say what it is (
Appendix 1a)
- With a correct sentence about the picture, the group
-Handouts
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game
-Keep a running total of points for each group on the
board
-Declare the winner
-Ask SS ‘why is the baby crying?’
-If the answer is ‘He is hungry/…’ ask SS how they
know that
-Ask SS what to use when they just guess, but not sure
of something
( Add a clock to the picture to show time in order to
elicit more answers with high degree of certainty like
‘He must be…’.) ( Appendix 1b)
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( expected: May be/Perhaps he’s hungry /He might be
thirsty /He must be sleepy / …)
Transition : -So when we are not sure of something, we
can only tell the possibility Today we will practice
expressing possibility through different degrees of
certainty
-Write down on the board :
Unit 14 : Speaking – Talking about Possibility
2 Pre-
Speaking
1.Eliciting and Introducing useful language
-Make questions to elicit and then introduce the Chalk
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-Draw a continuum to show the degree of certainty the
modals express
Degrees of Certainty
Might can’t Could ( sure or almost sure) Adverbs: maybe
perhaps
and board
3
while-Speaking
(23’)
Activity 1: talking about the situation(tack a, p 195)
-Ask SS to work in pairs, read the situations and make
a sentence using a suitable modal to express possibility
-Go around to monitor and give help if necessary
-Call on pairs of SS to act out the exchanges for the
situations
-Give feedback and comments
Activity 2: talking about the pictures
-Ask SS to work in pairs
-Give each pair a set of pictures(Appendix 2)
-Tell SS to study the pictures and talk about what
might happen in each case using suitable modals to
express the degrees of certainty
Textbook
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Post-Speaking
(7’)
5
Homewor
k
-Show are picture and modals an exchange to give SS
an example
-Go around to monitor unobtrusively
- Call on SS to talk about the pictures and invite the
class to express their opinion and to give comments
-Give feedback and comments
Activity 3: talking about plans for next summer
vacation (task b, p.196)
-Arrange SS to work in small groups
-Ask SS in their groups to talk about what they plan to
do next summer vacation Tell them to use the model
the example exchange
-Have SS do the task
-Go around to check and give help if necessary
-Call on some students to report about their groups
-Give feedback and comments
Writing about your plans
-Tell SS to write a few sentences about what they
might do next summer vacation
- Ask SS to form small groups of 4 or 5, exchange their
writings for correction and share ideas
- give feedback and comments
What’s in common?
-Ask SS to write a short paragraph about their group or
Textbook
Handout
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Most of us in the group / class are not sure of what to
do in the next summer vacation Some might…