Teaching Practice 1
Beginner, A1 level
To introduce and practise the singular negative form of "to be" in the context of famous people and places
To give students controlled speaking practice
Procedure (42-57 minutes)
Introduce the names of the cities (TB p 152) on Powerpoint (London, Warsaw, New Delhi, Lisbon, Pretoria, Bangkok, Bern, Dublin, Lima and Prague) to elicit the word country by asking to be questions about each of the city After cities, introduce the names of the countries (TB p 152) on Powerpoint (England, India, Switzerland, Portugal, Ireland, Peru, Thailand, Poland, the Czech Republic and South Africa) to elicit the word country by asking to be questions about each of the country Show posters of country maps (four maps; Europe, South America, East Asia, Africa). Ask whether they are countries or cities. Give a country name as an example, plot it on the map and then post them on the board. Hand out the matching exercise (match the cities with the countries). Ask them to work in pairs, and come to the board to check the answers.
Ex1 students complete the sentences by looking at the picture on Powerpoint (TB p 152). They answer where each person is from and practise the countries. Do one example with Sts and they complete the rest. Sts check their answers with their pairs and T writes them on the board. Ex2 students complete the sentences by looking again at the picture, but this time write the nationalities. Do one example with Sts and they complete the rest. Sts check their answers with their pairs and T nominates some sts to come to the board and write the sentences. Ex3.a T writes nationality suffixes and sample nationalities on the board and refers to the box in exercise 2. Elicit the answers from the students. Choral drilling. Ex3b. T gives sts each nationality on a piece of paper and asks them to stick the nationalities under each suffix.
Introduce the singular negative form of "to be" and highlight the form of the language. Write positive and negative to be sentences on the board and state not is used for negative. Positive (+) Negative (-) I _______ a teacher. I _______ a teacher. You _______ a student. You _______ a student. He _______ from Istanbul. He _______ from Istanbul. She _______ Turkish. She _______ Turkish. It _______ a table. It _______ a table. Check the answers with the class. Then check the contractions. Negative (-) I’m not a teacher. You’re not a student. / You aren’t a student. He’s not from Istanbul. / He isn’t from Istanbul. She’s not Turkish. / She isn’t Turkish. It’s not a table. / It isn’t a table. Choral drill with the sentences.
Ex7 (SB p 15) show the sentences on Powerpoint, hand out the material. Sts work in pairs, check the answers and write them on the board. Ex8 listen and practise the sentences (track). Drill. Ex9-a. Pre-teach the vocabulary: the capital (city), a singer, a company. Write them on the board and drill. Ex9-b. Show the pictures on Powerpoint (SB pg 15) and introduce true, false and tick. Do the first two sentences as an example. Point out we use pronoun "He" in the correct sentence in question 2, rather than repeating Tiger Woods. Hand out the materials. They work in pairs and do the exercises. T monitors and at the end elicit the answers from sts. Can nominate them.
(If time left) Put students into pairs. They work with their partners and write three true sentences and three false sentences. T monitors and check their sentences. T draws speech bubbles to teach "I think that's true/false." and "Yes, you're right./No, you're wrong." Drill the sentences with the class. Students work in groups of four. Read their sentences to the other pairs and check whether their sentences are true or false by using "I think that's true/false." and "Yes, you're right./No, you're wrong."
(If time left) T sticks 7 famous names (Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Aziz Nesin, Picasso, Charlie Chaplin, Gandhi, Frank Sinatra, Ronaldo) and 7 nationalities (English, Russian, Turkish, Spanish, English, Indian, American, Portuguese) on the board. Ask them to work in groups and later on come to the board and match the words by making meaningful sentences. Do the first one as an example: Shakespeare is from England. He is English. At the end T can use "Shakespeare and Charlie Chaplin are English." to practise plural form.