Unit 9c "Did you know?"
B1 (Intermediate) level
To provide fluency and accuracy speaking practice in a Discussion in the context of telephones and mobile phones
To provide gist and scan reading practice using a text about red telephone boxes and mobile phones
Procedure (32-46 minutes)
The teacher puts the word "annoy" and the expression "drive Sb mad" on the board and checks if the students know the word.Having given the instructions,the teacher will distribute the questions.The activity will be done in pairs and then as a feedback the questions will be discussed with the whole class one more time.
The teacher will give out the reading hand-outs along with the skimming activities s/he has designed for this purpose.Having allowed enough time for the students to do the activity,the teacher will give a whole class feedback.
while the students are doing the skimming activity the teacher divides the board into three sections and puts three names on each section.In each section the teacher sticks different word definitions in a random way.When the students are ready the teacher will give the instructions and the game will start. Each student will run to the board take off one of the definitions from the board,take it back to the group,search for the word in the reading,write it on the paper provided and stick the word back on the board. The team who finishes first wins the game.
The three questions will be discussed in pairs and then whole class feed back will follow.The teacher must be careful about the third question as the students may require a review of the suggestion and advice structures to complete the task.
To raise interest on the topic the teacher will show his/her mobile phone to the class asking if mobile phones show a person's character,following this discussion the teacher will provide students some pictures of different fascia and ask them match each photo with a classmate and give the rationale of their decisions using the adjectives they have learned in the previous lesson(s). Depending on the time left the teacher can play some ringtones and ask the students to guess what the character of the person with the played ringtone is.