ACE Lesson 11






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Teacher:	Helen Harper	Level:	ACE (Low – High beginner)
Skill:	Listening	Date:	6th May 2006
Subskills:		Topic:	Recap 2
Objective:	Comprehension check and ability to listen to lexis & grammar from previous lessons.	Lexis:	Hospitality dialogue – practice & listening Comparatives/superlatives – practice & listening Emotions, happy, sad, angry, tired, hungry, thirsty, confused, surprised, sick, hot, cold, scared (plus whatever Ss come up with) How do you feel? Do you feel [emotion]? Family lexis [check with Erik]
Language point(s):	Please, thank you, your welcome. Hello, welcome to…… How are you? I’m fine thanks. Where are you from? I’m from Scotland/England/America/ Canada/Japan. Was your journey ok? Yes thanks. Are you hungry/thirsty/tired? Yes I am/no I’m not. Would you like some water/food/to lie down? Yes thanks.	Anticipated problems:

STAGE	E \| S \| A	TARGET LANGUAGE	TEACHER	STUDENT	MATERIALS	TIME
1	Elicit	Feelings happy, sad, angry, tired, hungry, thirsty, confused, surprised, sick, hot, cold, scared	TPR	TPR		5
2	Elicit	Please, thank you, your welcome. Hello, welcome to…… How are you? I’m fine thanks. Where are you from? I’m from Scotland/England/America/ Canada/Japan.	Drill – teacher led	Drill	Mini country flashcards.	3
	Elicit	As above	Drill –	Half class drill		3
	Elicit	How was your journey?	Drill	Half class drill		3
2	Practice	Whole dialogue	Facilitate mingle	Mingle	Mini country flshcds	4
☺	Elicit & study	Are you hungry/thirsty/sleepy Yes I am/no I’m not. Would you like some water/food/to lie down? Yes thanks.	TPR	TPR		4
☺	Practice	As above	Demo task, facilitate task, Monitor	In pairs S1: Are you….? S2 Yes I am, no I’m not.	Hungry/thirsty/sleepy cards	5
	F/b
☺	Elicit	Comparatives	Teacher led – two objects.		Realia	3
☺	Study	Comparatives	Teacher led – hold up the right objects	Hold up right objects	Comparative object pictures/ country flags/ journey pictures	5
☺	Practice	Comparatives	Facilitate & monitor	In pairs	Comparative & object worksheet.	4
☺	Hmrk	Comparatives	OHP	OHP	Homework OHP	4
	Elicit	Superlatives & family lexis	Oldest & youngest	OHP	Homework OHP	3
☺	Listening Gist/prediction	Comparatives & superlatives	Play part of dialogue	Who is welcoming who? Listening picking right picture.	Dialogue & mini disc 3 Wtbrd pics (1 psn off bus, 2 psns welcoming, switch around numbers	3
☺	Listening Detail	Comparatives and superlatives Journey Welcome How Where Family Food bag	Hold up your hand if you hear it Do in two groups of words Play twice	Assign certain words to different students		6
☺	Listening detail	Comparatives & superlatives	Answer specific questions		Comp_intro detail wrksht	10
☺	IF TIME	Nouns			Wrdsearch	15
☺	Homework	Three sentences	Present to class	Oral presentation		20 - 30
☺	Cooler	Nouns (see below)	Circle vocab game		Big noun flshcads? If they exist.

NOTES:

Pre-Lesson:
Nouns: bag, shell, tree, boat, lifejacket, candle, mirror, painkillers, plaster, wallet, circle, triangle, fish, cut.

Post-Lesson:

This lesson went ok, but I knew the introductions dialogue was quite basic and the first class threw me by asking me if I was married etc. so I didn’t do some of the practice tasks. With the second class I stuck to my guns and it went fine.

Tasks to take:

Comparative tasks: teacher led then in pairs.
Holding up the right comparative combination works really well. Give students a set of objects e.g.
One short black tree, one long black tree, one short white tree, one long white tree – I also had big and small black and white squares, circles, tall and short Ben & Erik etc.
Give one set to each pair, then say a sentence:
‘The white tree is taller than the black tree’ and they have to hold them up in the right order (tall white tree, short black tree).
Then give one student in each pair a worksheet with images on it: e.g. a short black boat and a long white boat, and they have to say to their partner: ‘the black boat is shorter than the white boat’, and their partner has to pick out the right objects. Then once they’ve completed one sheet give their partner a different sheet.
This task works really well because you can instantly see who’s struggling with the concept, and they get faster at holding up the objects once they get the hang of it.
Another thing to do would be to get them to right the sentences underneath the pictures on the worksheet.

Comparative/superlative listening tasks
Listening tasks went well, one class asked to hear it all four times to make sure they got it. They had to circle one option from three – e.g. heavy heaviest heavier than, and even the more advanced students got some wrong.

Wordsearch went better than I thought it would, really made them think about the spelling of objects, and it would be good for a beginner class familiarizing themselves with English letters.

ELLP Report (if applicable): n/a (recap)

ELLP Chapter No:

How did this chapter relate to your lesson (e.g. similar language focus, lexis used, linking concepts etc.)?

Which activities were deemed not suitable for your lesson – why not?

Which activities did you use/adapt for your lesson?

Were these activities effective? (If not why not – if so, why?)

Recommendations for any alterations to ELLP lesson & activities (for the purpose of ACE English)

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