Leisure Time. My Weekends

Level and number of learners

Upper- intermediate, 13-14 years old

Topic

My Leisure Time. My weekends

Timetable fit

45 min.

Main aim/objective

To train grammar accuracy using Conditional 1,2 via experiential learning on the topic “Leisure Time. My Ideal Weekends. Establishing Safety Rules”.

Subsidiary aims/objective

to get children ready to emergency situations which may occur in their life, help them to establish safety rules.

Assumptions

Students take up a questionnaire, ask each other questions, share experience, do some acting out.

Anticipated problem

They are not eager to share because of personal questions, some may be too shy, the other pretend to be too cool to participate.

Possible solution

Keep on asking questions, giving hints, working examples, building rapport/ etc., let them stay anonymous, give the wide range of choice.

Teacher’s and pupils’ materials, visuals:

Visuals with telephone numbers of emergency services in and outside the country, questionnaires, shits of paper for writing notes, flesh cards.

Outcomes

Pupils can speak on the topic “My Leisure. My weekends” using Conditionals, they can find information needed for survival using websites, can write quick notes of questions to each other and answer these questions, can act out short dialogues, can use wikihow in search for some instructions, can learn emergency numbers

Timing

Procedure

Stage aims

Aids

Materials

3-5

Organizing the class, greeting,  finding out background information, lead -in

• What did you do yesterday?
• Where were you yesterday?
• Did you like it?
• What will you do on your weekends if the weather is fine? If the weather is bad?
• Where would you hang out, if you were in London?(pictures of possible answers: Hyde park, speaker’s corner, London Eye, etc.)

To get the class together, to, introducing the topic.

Grammar tables

35min

Anonymous questionnaire (sample at the end of the lesson plan, to choose up to 10 questions, student’s choice)

Collect the answers, to ask   random students to comment on the answers and share their personal experience or appoint an expert.

To answer questions, deal with grammar

Speaking skills

Shits of paper with questions

pens

Write questions on the pieces of paper. Teacher collects the notes. In chain students blindly choose the shit with a question and try to answer or appoint an expert.

Writing skills

pens

Work in groups. Draw a comic of planning your ideal weekend.  Act it out.

After looking at the opposite team presentation – make up some unexpected continuation (5-6 sentences). When your group have listened to some outcomes by the competing group, consult wikiHow (
 

wikiHow: пошаговые инструкции, которым можно доверять

https://ru.wikihow.com

to find the right solution of the problem.

Present a visual with different telephone numbers (one table contains only numbers, another is with the names). To choose some shy students  to take a small ball and try to throw it at the right telephone number after you read short situations and ask them to dial and have a conversation according to the situation you have listened to before (when student is dialing, the table with names is hidden)

Quick orientation in the situation

Sample of sentences with Conditionals

Visual with emergency numbers

Balls or slimes

Home task: describe and bring a picture of a place where you are safe or could be safe. Use conditionals(at least one-two). Imagine you can be there at your weekends, answer the question: will you take your parents, friends, classmates there.

Up to 10 sentences