This is a speaking lesson about time and time proverbs. I prepared it for a group of students (ideally 10-15 people), but it can be easily modified and done with a smaller group.
Sometimes my 1-2-1 students feel tired with course books or they want to talk more, so I need some emergency materials and this is one the reasons for constructing this lesson. I haven't tested it yet but I am planning to :)
Hope you like it. Please, feel free to use it in your classroom. Any comments are welcome.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yrqSrxN-dPM_3lJt8kDXZDSN1iRuQfg0/view?usp=sharing
Dear Roman, I have two suggestions for you:
ReplyDelete1) What do you think about having a conversation or something like this before starting the lesson, so you can check if students know what is to be an analog or a digital person?
2) I do not know the duration of your class, but I think you have more than enough activities for just one class.
Thanks!
Danielle Sales Thank you for your insightful remarks.
ReplyDelete1) With older clients / learners I would go for an analog clock because they would understand it. With younger learners it would depend on the group. But more and more people stop using analog watches and I tried to address this issue in the lesson plan.
2) I think this lesson plan would be good for a 60-minute class or 90-minute class. But again, everything depends on the learners. If they want to talk and share, we could have a full lesson.
I hope this answers your questions. Thank you for your feedback!
Roman: I like the idea of lessons on proverbs, and linking it with time gives it a nice focus. I have a lesson on proverbs that I occasionally use with my Korean students, from which I could suggest that in the beginning (depending on your students level / awareness) you ask your students to give you examples of proverbs from their country/culture. Also, if there are English proverbs which have the same meaning in proverbs in the students' L1, that can add another intercultural aspect to the lesson (if that interests you). A nice, compact lesson. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Roman,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your materials. Lovely to see these proverbs about time – what a nice way to get students talking, thinking, comparing cultural differences and focusing on meaning and language. Thanks for the T notes and the background info – very comprehensive and useful. I’ll focus my comments here on the student handout.
I think it’s a good idea to always start a student worksheet with ‘Task 1’ – you can change the T Notes to ‘Warmer’.
In all tasks that are teacher led and for which there is no student handout – you can remove the numbering. Then the handout has a logical flow of numbering 1,2,3 …
In your pre-teaching vocab and jumbled proverbs tasks you could have:
Task 3
Look at the words in the box. What do they mean?
Task 4
Your teacher will give you a task related to proverbs. When you finish, follow the steps.
a) Write the 4 proverbs below:
b) Discuss the meaning of each proverb
c) …
(This is just a suggestion)
Tasks
There are no instructions. Even though it’s usually clear what students have to do, they still need to be told. Even though the T knows, some students need the support of having an instruction on the page.