Having shown PowerPoint slides to the class, the teacher asks students to look at pictures of different activities and randomly asks a few students to review the past simple-tense questions they learnt from a previous class.
For example,
The teacher shows the school picture and asks
T: Were you at school last Monday?
Ss: (Yes, I was. / No, I wasnt.)
T: Where were you yesterday?
Ss: (Answers must related to the place shown in the picture)
T: What did you do there? etc.
Ss: (Answers must related to the activity shown in the picture)
Note: Students must answer the questions in
Past simple tense related to the pictures
that the teacher shows.
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Ss will be able to construct their own sentences related to the given pictures.
Ss connect the picture to speak with their background knowledge.
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Engagement, participation in answering the posed questions and generations of ideas.
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2. The class brainstorms on words and phrases about other activities. The teacher organizes on board as a word mind map about frequent activities, such as hang out, study extra class, have a meeting, etc.
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Ss will be able to construct meaning of the unknown words sharing among friends.
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3. Having distributed Worksheet 1 to the class, students are supposed to match the vocabularies about activities with their pictures.
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Ss will be able to guess the meanings of unknown words from the given pictures.
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4. The teacher randomly asks 5-8 students to rehearse answering past simple-tense questions that they are going to talk during the task.
T: Where were you last Tuesday?
Ss: I was at the beach.
T: What did you do there?
Ss: I went swimming/ I played the ball.
T: Were you at the park last week?
Ss: Yes, I was, on Tuesday.
T: What did you do there?
Ss: I went jogging.
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Ss will be prepared to deal with the speaking tasks.
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