Class: 1a Date: 4rth Feb 2011
Level: Intermediate
Level: Intermediate
Topic: Relative Clauses
Aims: To consolidate the rules on the two types of Relative Clauses.
To use the Relative Clauses in practice
Materials: Student book, Solutions (Intermediate)
Materials: Student book, Solutions (Intermediate)
Workbook, Solutions (Intermediate)
English Grammar in Use (Second Edition), Raymond Murphy
(Unit 94/95 – Relative Clauses (4/5) “Extra Information” Clauses (1/2))
Grammarway 3, (English Grammar Book), Jenny Dooley, Virginia Evans.
Time | Stage | Activities | Objectives | What if | |||||
Teacher | Students | ||||||||
08:30 min | Introduction 1-2 min | Greets the students and asks to sit down. Presents the plan of the lesson. | Greet the teacher and sit down. Listen to what the teacher is saying. | To create a pleasant and friendly atmosphere. To catch the Ss’ attention. | |||||
08:32 min | Checking homework 10 min | Checks whether all the students did their homework. Marks those who did not do. Checks together with the students. While checking the T asks bout the unknown words and translates them. | Show their homework and start reading in turns. Write down the translated words. | To check the students understanding. To check how the students worked at home. | |||||
08:42 min | Revision 5-7 min | The T writes down two sentences on the board. Asks about the type they belong to. Asks about relative pronoun ‘THAT’ (can we replace other pronouns with it? Which one and when?) The T asks the S if there are any cases when we can remove relative pronouns. Asks whether the S understand everything. | Write down two sentences into theirs exercise books. Write the relative pronouns. The S answer the T’s questions. (S write down necessary things in theirs exercise books). | To make clear whether the students remember the rules, whether they can recall all of them. | |||||
08:47 min | Practice 10-13 min | Asks the students to open their books at pg. 27. Asks to look at ex. 5 where S have to combine two sentences to make one. They should use a non-defining relative clauses. After several minutes the T checks together with the S. After that asks the S to look at ex.6 and 7 at once. Explains what the S should do. Checks and listen to the answers (The S have to make a list of 5 famous people, invent a simple sentence about them and after that they have to say it to their colleague and he/she should try to expand the simple sentences with extra information clauses-non-defining relative clauses). The S work in pairs. | Open their books. Start doing exercise 5. Read the answers in turns. Start doing the following exercises. Some of the S demonstrate their sentences while other are listening. | To checks if the S understand non-defining relative clauses. To use the rules in practice without mistakes. | |||||
09:00 min | Checking exercises students did individually last time 7 min | Gives in the exercises they worked with during the last lesson. Asks to prepare to check them. Asks to start reading in turns. (* The T suggests to do it for a mark). | Prepar for checking the exercises, start reading in turns. (*If a student reads the whole exercise, the T evaluates his/her work for a mark). | To check whether the S coped with the task they had to do individually. To evaluate their work | |||||
09:07 min | Practice (additional/optional task) 3-5 min | Gives in some more additional exercises. Asks to look through and asks someone to read the task quickly. Asks to start doing it and checking at once. (Asks to fill in with appropriate relative pronouns). | The S look through and start doing the exercise. They read the sentences in turns. | To check whether the S remember well the usage of relative pronouns. | |||||
09:12 min | Finishing Setting homework + Summarising 3 min | Reminds the S about their HW (pg.25 from their workbooks). Asks the S if everything is clear and if the revision was helpful. Also asks if the S have learnt something new. Finally, says goodbye to the S. | Write down their HW. Answer the T’s questions. Lastly, say goodbye to theacher too. | To make clear the learners know the non defining relative clauses. To get feedback. |