Course: Upstream Teacher: School: Level: Upper-Intermediate Unit: Cycle of Life Topic: Healthy Life Vocabulary area: words and expressions related to health Main focus: reading, speaking, vocabulary, use of English Main aims: -
To give SS practice in using health related vocabulary
To assume new vocabulary To be able to express their opinion fluently concerning a given theme.
Anticipated problems: - some SS may not be able to express a clear point of
view concerning the debated issues: drinking alcohol, eating disorder, junk food Assumed knowledge: - some SS may have the necessary vocabulary and knowledge in order to express a clear point of view Teaching aids: textbook, teachers book, handouts, blackboard Method of teaching: communicative Bibliography: Bob Obee, Virginia Evans, Upstream, Express Publishing, 2013 *** The Concise Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press websites Activity 1: Warm up activity short discussion on health Aims: - to motivate SS and get them interested in the topic Procedure:
SS are asked by the T on the importance of health in their lives
T writes on the blackboard the word HEALTH and asks SS to say words or phrases that they know and that are related to health T adds some other words/phrases linked to the word given and that havent been given SS write the words in their notebooks
Interaction: T-SS, SS-T
Time: 7 Activity 2: Use of Vocabulary - Discussion on healthy/unhealthy life Aims: - to get SS speak about the subject using the related vocabulary, practicing the grammar
structures that have been taught during the year.
Procedure: unhealthy life -
SS are asked by the T what they consider as being a healthy or
SS are asked by the T to work in pairs and try to find out , using dialogue, whether their partner lives a healthy or unhealthy life
Interaction: T-SS, SS-T, SS-SS
Time: 12 Activity 3: ???? Aims: to get SS identify ideas /problems that teenagers are confronted with nowadays. - To be able to sum up a text and express the main ideas to their colleagues - To express solutions for the presented problem in the article, to give reasons that might lead to the problem Procedure: - SS are divided into 3 groups and are given 3 different articles. After reading them (in silence), SS from different groups will be mixed up and grouped into pairs. Each SS needs to tell the new partner about the articles they have just read (the problems presented there) and try to find out what would be the solutions that the partner would offer. - Some SS will tell the whole class the solutions of the problems Interaction: -T-SS, SS-T, SS-SS Time: 15 Activity 4: Expressing opinion, making recommendations, agreeing & disagreeing Aims: - to use in a correct manner the words and phrases given on the handouts in order to express opinion, recommendation, agreement/disagreement Procedure: health
- T gives the SS some handouts with pictures and phrases related to
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SS are divided into groups of 4 and they have to find their
partners opinion on the health ideas expressed in the pictures, using the given phrases, and offer recommendation Some SS will tell the whole class the recommendations they have got
Interaction: T-SS, SS-T, SS-SS
Time: 14 Activity 5: Homework
Aims: to assign homework
Procedure: - the SS will be assigned to write an e-mail to a friend to offer him/her support and advice as a result of a health problem that he/she has. 150 words Time: 2