Unusual Situations
Teacher: Hailey Chen
Level: Intermediate 3 Date/Time: Wednesday, Feb. 28th, 2024
In this lesson, students created their own "unusual situations," allowing peers to provide possible explanations while practicing past modals to express degrees of certainty. During the speaking activity, students role-played scenarios where they complained about their friends and family, and their peers offered suggestions and advice to help solve their problems.
Theme: Unusual Situations
Goal: Give explanations, reasons, and suggestions using past modals
Objectives (SWBAT):
Students Will Be Able To ...
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write an advertisement using various ways of giving reasons
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offer explanations for hypothetical events using past modals
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listen and respond to people discussing problems using should have, could have, and would have in the context
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use past modals should have, could have, and would have to give judgments and suggestions
Activity 1
Commercial Sharing
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Students share their favorite products by giving short presentations
Activity 2
Unusual Situations
2.1 Pre-Stage:
Interaction: T-Ss
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“Do you remember some of the words mentioned last time? Some words are used to describe possibilities. Yes, including must, could, may, might.”
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“So these words can be used to describe some possible situations, like what we have done in the writing practice last time, like you did in the photo description activity.”
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Guide students to read 6A on page 88.
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“Here we can see some unusual situations, and can you think of some possible explanations for these situations?”
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Elicit possible answers from students.
2.2. During Stage:
Interaction: S-Ss
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Divide students into three groups.
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Have each group of students design two “unusual situations” and their corresponding answers by writing sentences on the worksheets.
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Have students give the worksheets back to me after writing.
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Give the worksheets for different groups and ask them to write some possible explanations by using past modals in each group.
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Give students the answer sheets so they can compare the answers.
2.3 Post-Stage:
Interaction: T-Ss
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Provide corrective feedback on students’ writing
Tangible Outcome & T. feedback/peer feedback:
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Students will be able to use past modals to make sentences to give possible explanations for different situations and scenarios
Activity 3
Speaking -- I'm going nuts!
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Students use past modals in sentences to make judgments and give suggestions on past actions.
Activity 4
Language Focus -- Reaction
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Students learn different words describing reactions (e.g., assumption, suspicion, criticism, etc.)