Choice Board Presentation for the lesson

Subject : English, Grade 8

Unit: Daily Life & shopping (Language with Content )

Lesson objectives

WE WILL BE ABLE TO:

• learn and practice new vocabulary on the topic daily routines & free-time activities
• classify activities as daily routines or free-time activities
• listen and read for gist and specific information
• create a dialogue on the topic (9-10 utterances each using new vocabulary)
• write about your likes and dislikes using synonyms and appropriate conjunctions

Discuss the topic of Shopping in small groups

Questions to be discussed:

• Who buys products in your family?
• Do you go shopping for daily products?
• Do you help your Mom to do shopping?
• Is shopping routine or an activity for fun?

Listening key

Preparation task

Checkout, cash, T-shirt, changing room, credit card, receipt

Reading key

Task 1

1. Skaters spend time on a skateboard, techies live and breathe computers, science and technology.

2. Clothes have to be loose to let them skate comfortably: casual long-sleeved and short-sleeved T-shirts, hoodies, baggy jeans and trainers.

3. Besides skateboarding, they like hanging out with other skaters and playing computer games.

4. Clothes are generally jeans and a T-shirt, perhaps with a cool science design or a funny slogan. Fashion's not a big deal for them.

Task 2

easily - comfortably

device - gadget

take sth quickly - grab

geniuses - whizz-kids

Choice board

Listening

Teenage subcultures

Interview “BEING 16”

Reading

Writing

Present the skaters and techies to the class

Vocabulary work

Use the questions in the text to interview your partner. Record yourselves. Present your interview.

Classification

Match the words and their synonyms

Write your two likes and two dislikes. Give arguments: why do you like/dislike to do it, using synonyms.

Skaters or Techies?

Healthy/unhealthy daily activities

Likes

Dislikes

I (just) love it.

I can’t stand it.

I’m keen on … .

I hate it.

I’m crazy about … .

I don’t really like it.

Not really. I prefer ... .

Rubrics for a dialogue

• Success criteria:
• Vocabulary on daily routines and leisure activities and phrases
• Grammar: constructing questions in Present Simple
• Express feelings and emotions
• Equal number of utterances
• Peer assessment.