silence with you going round helping and correcting.
Ask a student to draw a picture on the board of a person holding an umbrella. The umbrella looks like this.
Explain to the class that this tulip-like umbrella design is a new, experimental one.
Ask the students to work in small groups and brainstorm all the advantages and disadvantages of a new design. Ask them to use these sentence stems:
It/you can/can t .../you + present simple .../you will/won t .../you may/may not ...
For example: It is easy to control in a high wind, You can see where you re going with this umbrella
Give the students large sheets of paper and ask them to list the advantages and disadvantages in two columns.
Ask the students to move around the room and read each other s papers. Individually they mark each idea as good, bad or intriguing.
Ask the student how many advantages they came up with and how many disadvantages. Ask the students to divide up into three groups according to which statement applies to them:
I thought mainly of advantages.thought of some of both.thought mainly of disadvantages.
Ask the three groups to come up with five to ten adjectives to describe their group state of mind and put these up n the board.
Round off the exercise by telling the class that when de Bono asked different groups of people to do this kind of exercise, it turned out that primary school children mostly saw advantages, business people had plenty of both while groups of teachers were the most negative.
Advantages the students offered: a hot country you can collect rain water.won t drip round the edges.can use it for carrying shopping. s not dangerous in a crowd. s an optimistic umbrella. s easy to hold if two people are walking together.this umbrella you ll look special. ll take less floor space to dry.umbrella makes people communicate. They can see each other.can paint this umbrella to look like a flower. ll get a free supply of ice if it hails.TALE FUN - JIGSAW STYLE! [1] students into five equal groups. Each group will get one fairy tale to read. The stories are The Ugly Duckling, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Little Pigs. Each group is responsible for collecting the following information:
Who are the characters in the story?
Where does the story take place?
What are the major events of the story?
Are there any magical or supernatural events? If so, what are they? the students read, discuss, and record the above information, split them into jigsaw groups. One person from each fairy tale assemble in a new group. In their new groups, students are each given three minutes to tell the other group members about the story they had read as well as the information they have collected. After that, the group has to create a poster and give a presentation that addressed two points:
. What do all five stories have in common?
. Using what you found in common, write your own definition for a fairy tale.is a well known theatre exercise which is extremely effective for encouraging controlled but spontaneous interaction in ESL classes.1 PRESENT by presenting a list of debate expressions such as those listed. 2 MODELa discussion. Choose yourself as conductor and 4 other students to be conducted. First, the conductor presents a topic. He then selects a student and an expression for the continuation of the discussion .: Elephants shouldn t be allowed into Bangkok. Student B Furthermore B: Furthermore, the government should fine their owners .: Student A On the other hand A: On the other hand, people in Bangkok are very generous when they see elephants .: Student C For example .C: For example, when they see elephants they feel compassion and give them food and money .: Student D You may have a point .D: You may have a point. Nevertheless, the pollution and traffic are terrible for the elephants health.3 WRITING reinforce the use of these expressions further, follow this activity by a debate or writing exercisemethod Activity
№1. My Favourites. Children prepare at home material (press-cuttings, pictures) which illustrates their interests, hobbies. At the lesson on the lists of colour paper they design the album where every pupil tells about his favourite things and pastime (about favourite colour, sport, town, etc.)
№2. Picture poem. Children are suggested to draw picture - poem, so that its shape is concerned with its meaning.Roleplay: 20-25 min: Oral fluency practice; politely disagreeing: Two housemates try to...
