Today's lesson provided further focus on writing and it's planning. I was searching Google Images for award winning photographs and decided to use some of them as prompts in our class. The students were shown a picture of a busy Indian street with lots of traffic and an elephant casually strolling through the scene. Using example questions we started to make notes about what we could see in order to plan a piece of writing to describe the images. The group worked together to elicit certain aspects of the image, notes were made on the board and any difficult vocabulary that arose was clarified. The group then worked together to transfer the notes into a written composition on the board with help from the teacher and peer input. The learners were then put into groups of 3 to work on new images, the planning process was then set into motion with help provided in spelling, vocabulary and encouragement to be crerative. The groups were very careful not to let others see thier pictures. Once the groups had successfully planned and written their pieces all the images were shown on the board one by one with the learners reading aloud their written work.
In today's lesson we focused on 'get used to', following on from our last lesson on 'used to be'.
In a warm-up activity we watched an amusing video where an Englishman is a guest in a Chinese restaurant, there is some misunderstanding regarding whether his plate should be left empty or not. This allowed the target language to be 'activated' through discussion, particularly concerning our learners' ability to 'get used to' British food - or not.
Using the board we focused on the grammatical form, presenting/eliciting examples with discussion.
In the next activity students were given a 'wordle', a printed sheet with selected words, students then attempted to predict from the text what was going to happen in the following video clip.
After watching the clip the students were given the task of listing what Audrey is and isn't used to. This provided lots of ideas and good practice of the target language.
In a final productive task students used their owns ideas to make statements and questions with 'used to'. These were fed back to the class and we discussed our favourites.
Most English verbs are regular. You can change them to their past form by adding-dor-edto the end of them. Here are some common irregular verbs. These have to be memorised.
