Listening and Speaking tasks Task 1(W) Students watch a video about communication technologies and write down top five tech gifts for students they hear. Task 2 (W) Additional questions: - Why has the author of this video decided to shoot it? -What are the top five back to school tech gifts in our country? Make a list of the five items. -Is it a good idea to use these technologies for studying at school? Why? Why not? -Would you like any of these back-to-school tech gifts? Which ones? Why? Task 3(W/I) Students go over the following vocabulary words from the video: a/v gear (audio visual equipment, could ask students to give examples like blue ray player, tv and new streaming gear like Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV etc.) Development of Vocabulary(I/P/G) Task 1(I) Students match technology vocabulary to objects/technology items. Differentiation Less confident students will be able to check meaning of the words looking at the PowerPoint Presentation (Slide 6) and after it; they match pictures with technology items. Task2 (G) After this exercise, students brainstorm what can be done with each new technology item. Students must use appropriate verbs (i.e. -smartphones record videos, -flash drives save files, -digital camera take photos etc.) Each group writes their ideas on the board, the group with the most ideas wins. Ask students what technology items are common in use in Kazakhstan. Task 3 (I) Students complete the sentences using new words Feedback: Students express their opinions about new ideas that they have acquired participating in the activity Practice(I/P) Students get introduced to the phrases, related to technology items: to access a page/ … to browse websites/ … to click a desktop icon/ … to copy a document/… to go online/ … to paste a sentence/ … to cut and paste an image/ … to send an attachment/… to surf the web/net to share a file/… to download music/… 12.to upload email/ … Students write their own sentences using the new verbs. (i.e. I like to download music onto my MP3 player.) Peer assessment: Students swap their exercise books to check the sentences. In case of any hesitation about the sentence structures, encourage them to consult with more capable classmates or a teacher. Differentiation Allow less confident learners to give different levels of response (differentiation by outcome)or Some learners ask and answer a fewer number of questions (differentiation by task). More confident learners review ways of saying ‘why’, for example because/ because of/ the reason is etc. which examples of technology they cannot live without and why I like to download music onto my MP3 player so that to listen to the new songs Then learners in pairs ask and answer questions. Select those questions, which you predict they can answer in English. This may only be 5 or 6 each. |