ACE Lesson 21






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Teacher:		Level:	ACE (Low – High beginner)
Skill:	Grammar, vocabulary	Date:	Lesson #23: July 19, 2006
Subskills:	past tense (is/was), adverbs of frequency	Topic:	How Often is it Rainy in July?
Objective:	SWBAT: Tell the correct day and date Tell their birthday. Tell how old they are. Describe the weather. Describe the frequency of weather events.	Lexis:	1. Dates and Calendar: Saturday – Sunday, a week, a month, calendar, a year, a date, January – December, birthday, born 2. Weather: Rainy, windy, sunny, hot, cloudy, cold, stormy, rainy season dry season 3. Adverbs of Frequency: always, usually, sometimes, rarely, never
Language point(s):	What day is today What day is tomorrow? What day was yesterday? What’s today’s date? When were you born?	Anticipated problems:	Potentially a lot of material; however, many Ss will know the first theme and theme 2 was introduced in the homework. Timing, Timing, Timing! Must cover this in one lesson or too much time gets wasted in the future.

STAGE	E \| S \| A	TARGET LANGUAGE	TEACHER	STUDENT	MATERIALS	TIME	TEACHER’S EVALUATION
	E	Theme 1	Broadly elicits about theme. Asks Ss: “What day is it?” “What day is tomorrow?” “What day was yesterday?” Draws a chalk-talk of the week [1].	Responds	whiteboard, markers	5 min
	E	Theme 1	Expand the week into a calendar grid. Asks “What is it?” “How many weeks?” “What month is it?	Answers “a month.” “Four weeks.” “July.”	whiteboard	5 min
	E/S	Theme 1	Drills the twelve months.	Listens, repeats	a calendar	5 min
	S	Theme 1	Plays “Toss the Martian” to drill both days of the week and months.	Responds	Martian Man	5 min
	S	Theme 1	Hands out PT1: “Days, Weeks, Dates.” No modeling required. Monitor.	Completes task Easy.	PT1: “Days, Weeks, Dates.”	5 min
	S	Theme 1	Have Ss fold PT1 in half. Model the dialog with flashcard. Have SS practice the dialog. Then substitute in the days in lower half.	Practices the dialog. Feels more comfortable with weekdays.	PT1, dialog f/c,	? min	Dunno if this is worth bothering with.
	A	Theme 1	Give five Ss a flashcard with a number 1-5; give another five Ss a flashcard with a letter on it (A-E). Arrange them in order.	Ah, yes, this craic.	number and letter f/c	2 min
	A	Theme 1	Repeat the above using days (Sunday - Saturday) and months (January - December) f/c. No modeling. Do this twice if they need the practice	Arranges themselves in order. Then they shout out their month or day in order.	Days and months Flashcards	10 min
	E	Theme 1	Use monkey puppets to elicit birth. (this was a hit in General English!).	Responds, blushes.	monkey puppets	1 min	Dingy unless they’re trucking through everything else.
	E/S/A	Theme 1	Asks “When is your birthday?” Discuss this theme but don’t linger on it. Go around in a circle and share birthdays. Drop altogether if time is short. Keep the pace, donkey!	Responds	whiteboard	4 min
	E	Theme 2	Question: “How’s the weather?” Points out the window.	Responds. Should all be able to answer based on completion of HW#8.	none	1 min
	E/S	Theme 2	Places OHT of the thermometer on the board. Asks “What’s the temperature?” Points to various temps. Elicits degrees. If this takes too long, drop it and simply get “hot” and “cold.”	Responds	OHT of thermo-meter, whiteboard, markers	5 min	Use the paper task that should accompany this as a homework assignment.
	E/S	Theme 2	Places OHT of the homework on the whiteboard (plus “stormy”). Has Ss fill in the blanks; hands out marker Rassias style. Word. Drills pronunciation.	Responds	OHT of homework #8 p. 1 (modified to include “Stormy”)	5 min
	S	Theme 2	Drills the dialog from homework [3] using dialog f/c. Listen and repeat.	Listens, repeats.	dialog f/c	5 min
	E/S	Theme 2	Quickly elicits seasons by drawing a timeline on the w/b w/ ticks for each month. Make a section for “rainy” (May - November) and “dry” (December - April)	Replies	w/b, markers	2 min
	S	Theme 2, recap	Writes the question on the w/b and circles it. Draws two satellites. ”It’s rainy.” “It’s sunny.” (Elicit with chalk talks). Asks What do I need to bring?”	Fills in the network tree.	whiteboard	4 min	Another possible dingy if time is ticking.
	E	Theme 3	Writes always, usually, sometimes, rarely, and never in a horizontal row across the board.	Uh huh.	whiteboard, markers	2 min
	E	Theme 3	Draws a grid on the w/b. Recaps: “What’s this?” Fills in most days. Points to the Xs and says “Rainy.”	“A calendar.” Nods in agree-ment.	whiteboard, markers	3 min
	E	Theme 3	Question: How often is it rainy? Drills question.	Usually (9-7 out of 10)	whiteboard, markers	3 min
	E	Theme 3	Question: How often is it sunny? Drills question.	Rarely (1-3 out of 10)	whiteboard, markers	2 min
	E	Theme 3	Question: How often is it windy? Drills question.	sometimes (4-6 out of 10)	whiteboard, markers	2 min
	E/S	Theme 3	Concept checks with stormy, hot, cold,	replies	whiteboard, markers	2 min
	E/S	Theme 3	Hands out PT2: How Often Weather. Models, monitors.	Completes task in groups or pairs.	PT2: How Often – Weather	8 min
	E	Theme 3	TRP: various actions (get up, take a shower …). Asks “How often do you …?”	Replies.	w/b	3 min
	S/A	Theme 3	Hands out PT3: “How Often – Routines.” Models two Ss interviewing each other. Have them interview each other.	Interviews each other.	PT3: “How Often – Routines”	8 min
	A	Theme 3	Model, then have Ss report to the class about his or her partner.	They report to me. Fair and balanced.	PT3, chairs	10 min
	S	Homework #8	If by some miracle there’s time left at the end of this, review the homework using OHTs	“Oh, that’s what I was supposed to do.”	Homework #8 OHTs, OHP, whiteboard, electricity	2 - 10 min

NOTES:

Pre-Lesson:

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[2]

[3]
A: How’s the weather?”
B: It’s [rainy, windy, sunny, hot, cloudy, cold, stormy]
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Post-Lesson:

ELLP Report (if applicable):

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)