Lesson plan FDE I HS 17 Hansjürg Perino Katja Lötscher

Lesson: English File, pre-intermediate, Student’s book, Unit 3C, p. 24-25 Topic: Defining relative clauses

Overall aims: Students learn how to use defining relative clauses and how to paraphrase, explain and describe words in English

Class level / profile: 1st grade / all profiles

Time Phase Aims / content: "WHAT" ! "Why this?"

Procedure/ Method: "HOW" ! "Why like this?"

Anticipated Problems ! Proposed Solutions

Materials / Media required

5’ Warm-up 1a) Who likes to play word games like Scrabble or Taboo? Look at the Scrabble letters on the slide. How many words of four or more letters can we find together? ! Introduction to the topic “looking for words”

Show slide and collect words in class ! Start class together and work on a problem in class with everybody contributing / Getting students to talk

Not much enthusiasm / no words are found ! Incentive (chocolate for each word) / Help by pointing out certain letters

Slide, OHP or beamer to show picture

5’ Listening 1b) Listen and discuss in pairs 1c) Listen to show and write down words ! Introduction to paraphrasing and describing

1b) Individually / in pars 1c) Individually – check answers in class / discuss problems ! Students to check their own listening skills / Warming up describing the show to one another

Students don’t understand the recording ! Play again / read out loud

Student’s book and CD

10’ Grammar practice

2a) Complete the exercise 2b) Finding and phrasing rule / check understanding again with slide showing section from the “Grammar Bank” 2c) Complete task 1 on handout ! Introduce rule

2a) In class ! draw from previous knowledge of individual students 2b) In class / inductive approach !students form their own hypothesis about the rule / teacher supports with phrasing 2c) Practice individually ! students can work in their own speed

Confusion around which pronoun to use when ! Support individually if needed or refer to “Grammar Bank” p.130

Student’s book / Slide, OHP or beamer to show picture / Handout

8’ Vocabulary presentation

3a) Discuss in class what to do when one doesn’t know a word in English 3b) Fill in gaps 3c) Complete definitions ! Introduce knew vocabulary and how to paraphrase words

3a) In class ! learn what your colleagues do / get different opinions and ideas 3b) Individual, check in class ! students can test their vocabulary and notice gaps 3c) Individual, check in class ! students can test their vocabulary and grammar knowledge and notice gaps

Words aren’t known / rule isn’t clear enough ! Support individually by paraphrasing unknown words or explaining rule again

Student’s book

Lesson plan FDE I HS 17 Hansjürg Perino Katja Lötscher

12’ Speaking Practice in communicative setting: Work in pairs, take turns in describing the words on your cards and let the other person guess the words Work on task 2 on your handout together ! practice vocabulary and grammar

In pairs ! practice vocabulary and grammar rule in a communicative setting

Words aren’t known ! Refer to dictionary

Student cards / Handout

5’ Wrap-up Describe people and things on handout ! Knowledge check Homework and outlook

In class, one student describes and the others guess the person or thing.

Nobody wants to speak ! Call upon individual students

Handout

Homework: Students to complete tasks 5a) (explain what n and v stand for), b) and c) (written). Outlook: Using a dictionary or translation page (leo.org, etc.) / Pronunciation

English File, Unit 3C, What’s the word? Katja Lötscher Slide

What’s the word?

Defining relative clauses

! Use defining clauses to explain what a person, thing or place is or does.

! Use who for a person, which for a thing and where for a place.

" You can use that instead of who and which.

Examples

! That’s the woman who won the lottery last year.

! A clock is something that tells the time

! This is the restaurant where I had dinner last week.

! Is that the book which everybody is reading?

! A cook is a person that makes food.

English File, Unit 3C, What’s the word? Katja Lötscher Student cards

Student cards Student A

tired

tennis racket

horseback riding

cook

gloves

arrival

Student B

happy

volleyball

hiking

waiter

hat

departure

English File, Unit 3C, What’s the word? Katja Lötscher Handout

Defining relative clauses

1. Look at the sentences below and complete them with who, which or where.

a) A hotel is a place ___________ people stay when they're on holiday.

b) What's the name of the woman ___________ lives in that house?

c) What do you call someone ___________ writes computer programs?

d) Overalls are clothes ___________ people wear to protect their clothes when

they are working.

e) Is that the shop ___________ you bought your new laptop?

f) That's the man ___________ ran in the Olympics.

g) It's a shop ___________ you can buy bread.

h) Here's the boy ___________ saved my life.

i) This is the film ___________ makes me cry.

j) London is the town ___________ I grew up.

k) It's the thing ___________ controls the air conditioning.

2. With a partner, look at the picture below and take turns in describing who and what

you see. The other person has to find the matching picture. Example:

! A selfie stick is the thing which Barbara and Susan use to take a selfie. ! Tamara is the woman who is sitting at the table and talking on her mobile

phone.