план-конспект урока Fears and phobias
план-конспект урока по английскому языку (8 класс) на тему

Aims: to teach and practice vocabulary on the topic “Fear”, i.e. the language to describe a frightening situation and the way people feel about it; (optional) to revise past tenses (Past Simple, Past Cont.)

Sub-Aims: to practice Ss’ listening skills (through a model text), Ss’ speaking/writing skills (through telling/writing a story)

Personal Aims: to work on T’s time-management and instruction giving techniques, to try out TBL as a lesson framework for teaching the language

Anticipated Problem

Solution

1. Ss may face some problem at the beginning of the lesson coming up with a list of situations when people feel really scared

2. Ss may tend not to use the new Vocab well

3. Ss may have a problem with accurate use of P.S., P.C. for narration

1. Give Ss a visual clue to begin with

2. A controlled practice exercise (if  time)

3. An extra controlled practice exercise

Stage

Stage Aims

Time

Procedure

Interaction pattern

Warm-up

Lead-in

Pre-task

A. Pre-listening

B. 1st Listening

C. 2nd Listening

Task Preparation

Task performance

Language focus

Task with the good language highlighted

To set the context, activate Ss’ schemata and raise their interest

To set the model for Ss to follow when producing their own texts

To predict the story

To listen for gist

To listen for detail, to understand the model text better

To prepare a similar text

To present their stories to other Ss

To revise Past Simple and Past Cont. (if there’s a need for that and time)

To present the Vocab

To complete the task with the good language in focus

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T asks: Are you easy to be frightened? What can frighten you/other people? Make a list of such things. (Ss may use the picture (1) to give them the ideas)

Feedback: put all Ss’ ideas on the board

T shows the picture (2), Ss make their guesses about the story they are going to listen

T asks Ss to listen to check their guesses

Feedback

T elicits some words from the audio text (to help weaker Ss to do the following task): lounge, wardrobe, chest-of-drawers, carpet, tiny

T asks Ss to listen again to answer a set of comprehension questions (a handout 1)

Feedback

T asks Ss to work on their own to prepare a similar story telling about a scary experience. It can be either true or imagined. Ss may use the ideas listed at the beginning of the lesson for their story plots.

T may suggest a plan (where? when? who? what was doing?)

T  monitors, provides help if necessary, takes notes of the language Ss use while preparing the task

T asks Ss to present their life stories to other Ss

S try and guess whether a story is true or not (Ss are encouraged to ask questions to do so)

T monitors to take notes of both good and weak language

Ss briefly comment on their partners’ stories

T highlights the good language

T asks Sts to improve the weak language presented on the board (only in case Ss make a lot mistakes in this language area!! + a controlled practice exercise ( a handout 2 ))

T’s major focus is on the Vocab Ss can use to describe a frightening situation and their feelings:

- I felt a bit uneasy

- I felt jumpy

- I felt tense

-I was scared to death

- I went to pieces

- I went pale

- It was hair-raising

-It was spine-chilling

T elicits the Vocab from Ss and puts it on the board (see below)

If time permits, let Ss do a controlled practice exercise (to help weaker Ss get a better grasp of the new language (a handout 3))

Ss think back on their stories to edit them using the highlighted language

Ss work with a different partner to find out what story can be related to their own experience

Feedback: Ss comment on the stories and relate them to their own experience

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The Language

How to present

- I felt a bit uneasy

- I felt jumpy

- I felt tense

-I was scared to death

- I went to pieces

- I went pale

- It was hair-raising

-It was spine-chilling

Imagine you’re in a lift and the light goes out. How do you feel? - Uneasy

You’ve spotted a spider on your leg. What happens to your heart? – It beats faster. (Show a jumping movement with a hand). It jumps.

How do you feel? – Jumpy.

You’re in the flat alone; suddenly you hear a noise from the kitchen. You’re afraid even to move. How do you feel? – Tense.

A dog jumps out and starts barking at you fiercely. Are you scared? How? – To death.

You are scared. You’re in a panic. You start crying. What happens to you? – You go to pieces.

You’re very scared. What colour is your face? – White. Pale. You go pale.

The situation is really scary. Your hair stands on its end. The situation is… - hair-raising.  

Do you feel hot or cold to your back? – Cold - chilling – it is spine (show to the back) –chilling.