Stages of the lesson

Timing

Activities and classroom management: teacher-students (T-Ss) interaction

Rationale

Materials

Warm-up

Following instructions

5'

T says Hello and asks about the absentees.

Activity 1 - Lighting a candle

"Why do we have to hold the flame to the candle whick?"

"So that the whick catches fire."

To set Ss' mind on English and create a link to homework check up.

A candle, a matchbox, an ashtray.

Home assignment

check-up

3'

Activity 2- Checking homework.

T asks 7 students to read out the short dialogues in exercise 1, page 14 in the language maximizer.

Reinforcement of the previous knowledge

Handouts

Starter

5'

Activity 3 Ss are given half of short sentences about what true and false friends are like. The Ss holding the first half read the words on the paper waiting for the Ss having the second half to complete the sentence.

1.      A true friend . is hard to find.

2.      Beware of . false friends.

3.      A friend of words and not of deeds . is like a garden full of weeds.

4.      No friends . in hard times.

T asks Ss to describe the meaning of a magazine illustration using one of the sentences.

Class discussion - Making guesses about the content of the lesson. T writes the title of the lesson on the board.

To anticipate the content of the material to be taught.

Deducing meaning from context

To identify the relation between the title and the visual stimulus.

Slips of paper with split up sentences.

Presentation of the new material

Lead-in

Listening for gist

Listening for specific information

Open cloze

5'

3'

8'

Activity 4 - Individually, Ss match lines a-e with questions 1-5 and then compare answers with a partner, explaining what they think each quotation means.

Activity 5 - T tells Ss they are going to listen to two people talking about a movie about friendship. T asks what they think they might hear in the discussion.

T plays the recording once and let the Ss compare their answers. What did they hear on the recording that helped them make their decision?

T asks Ss to match the beginning and the end of the story with two magazine pictures.

Activity 6 - Fill in the gaps.

Students look at the notes and decide which info is missing, fiind different words or expressions that might  fit each gap grammatically or lexically.

T writes the phonetic transcription of the words Ss cannot work out by themselves.

To practice reading for gist (general meaning)_ of a text.

To make predictions about the material to be listened to.

To check listening comprehension

To make predictions about the information missing in the gaps.

To practice phonetic transcription

Teaching vocabulary

Pairwork

Intensive reading and writing practice

Reading practice

Speaking practice

Oral fluency activity

5'

8'

7'

2'

3'

Activity 7

Ss work in pairs, establishing the difference in meaning of the words in different pairs of sentences.They take turns to look up the definitions in a dictionary, if necessary - exercise 1, page 25.

Activity 8 - Group decision-making -

Ss are given worksheets and are asked to match 4 types of friends with the best description of their personalities. Ss should highlight the words that best describe typologies of friends and report them to T.

T draws spidergrams outlining the main characteristics of a party partner, a hobby sharer, a workmate, a tell-anythig friend.

Activity 9 - Role reading

Two Ss read a dialogue between two flatmates who are having an argument. Ss have to name the type of relationship the two persons are having.

Activity 9 Role play

Two Ss are asked to role play different types of relationships (go out with sb, get on well with sb, fall out with sb or fall in love with sb).

To introduce vocabulary to talk about personal relationships and friendships.

To identify new words, deduce meaning from context.

To group new words according to established criteria.

To perceive the language in a context and how it generates real-life situaations.

To produce the language in a context, making it functional.

Coursebooks

Ss' notebooks

Dictionaries

Board

Home assignment

1'

Ss are assigned two exercises - fill in the gaps and error correction to reinforce the nevocabulary - ex. 3, 4/page 25. The texts Ss used throughout activity 10 are to be given further attention in a reading comprehension task - p. 29.

To further practice the newly taught material.