Title: Street children Communicative aims: Talking about different life conditions Skills covered: Speaking, Reading, Writing and Listening Grammar: adjectives, verbs Vocabulary: homeless, embarrassed, blister, Paradise, to whistle, to seem, twice Class: 7C Age: 13 Teaching materials: a picture of a street boy, cassette player
Timing Procedure Modes of
Interacti on 1min Informing the Ss about the aims of the lesson T→ Ss 3 min Ask the children to speak about themselves: What are you? How T→ Ss old are you? Where do you live? Do you eat enough? Do you sleep Ss→ T in warm and clean beds? So, do you live a happy life? 2 min Tell the Ss to look at the picture of a street boy. Ask them T→ Ss if they think he is happy. What is he doing? Why? Ss →T 2 min Pair work: Imagine you are Eduardo. What are your thoughts? T→ Ss Write them in your notebook. S→ S S→T 10 min Write the sentences on the blackboard in the reported speech. Ss → T Eduardo thought/said to himself that he was very poor. 10 min Inform the Ss that they are going to get a song text about a poor T → Ss woman. First they have to fill in some words and then they will S→ S check listening. Pair work. 5 min Explain the new words: blister, sole, whistle, embarrassed, T→ Ss Paradise 5 min Find some action words related to the word STREET T → Ss Ss→ T 7 min Ss have to answer some questions about the text of the song: How T → Ss does the woman feel? What about the man? What is your attitude? S →T 1 min Homework: Make a comparison between you and the children of T→ Ss the street. She calls ou ‘Sir, can yo It’s cold an There’s som