Class level 2nd year baccalaureate Class period 55 minutes Text book Ticket to English Unit 8 international organizations Lesson type Teaching function: giving and responding to good and bad news. Materials Visual Aid (sad person and happy person)/ expressions worksheet SPOs By the end of the lesson, students should: Giving bad and good news Responding to good and bad news Time Procedure Techniques Working mode 5 minutes Warm up: T: good morning S: good morning T: have you done the exercise of yesterday? T corrects the homework of the table of the reading text 10 minutes Presentation stage: T asks ss to tell about a time where they heard some news about themselves or their Story telling Individually family; from whom they got it, and what kind of news they got: bad or good. Ss - teacher Ss: from my mom Ss2: from my friend T: what are the words they used to tell you the bad/ good news? T: What did you do when you heard the news, how did you respond? Ss: oh my god! / How wonderful! 10 minutes Motivation activity: T displays a picture of a sad person and next to him a happy person. Visual Aid Teacher-Ss T: what kind of news do you think they have? T: we will call him Mr bad news, and she is Mrs good news. T: Mr bad news is an investigator for an international children organization. And Mrs Drilling Individually good news is working as a child care assistant. They both have news to tell the Qs-As secretary of the organisation: Mr bad news: a child died because of cold Mrs good news: I saved a child from hunger T: can you tell me how each one of them is going to tell the news? T writes the answers on the blackboard. T: now imagine you are the secretary. How would you respond to each news? T writes the question on the blackboard and asks ss to work in pairs Blackboard In pairs Focus questions: 1. How would you respond to Mr bad news? 2. How would you respond to Mrs good news? Ss - teacher T elicits answers and writes them on the board. Drilling 10 minutes Practice T gives ss worksheet of expressions of giving bad/ good news and responding to bad/ Worksheet good news and asks ss to use those expressions to imagine what other things Mr Bad In pairs news and Mrs good news said to their secretary. Ss give bad news and good news Practice: oral practice Ss - teacher T asks about the response they would say using those expressions Individually Ss respond to bad good news Ss write the examples on the blackboard. blackboard 15 minutes written practice: T divides the class into two groups. Two groups T writes problems on the board separated. In pairs Group A should give bad news to: (group B should respond to bad news) A friend of group B had a bad accident. you have to tell the news to group B Group B had 0 in Math. Role play Group B should give good news to: (group B should respond to good news) Group A had 20 in English class. Group A won the prize of the best school magazine. T asks each group to give bad/ good news to a pair of matters, while the other group should respond to it. T asks ss to work in pairs and write examples of telling and responding to news. Ss - ss T elicits answers and asks ss to write on the blackboard to form a dialogue. blackboard
5 minutes Follow up: (or assignment)
T: in pairs, write a dialogues between two friends, one of them has good news and the other is responding to it advice.